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A quotation from Orwell

Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #change #changetheworld #extrapolation #future #politics #power #powerworship #prediction #seachange #socialscience #trends

People take actions that are bad for the rest of us; and when one takes that action and extrapolates some uncontrollable characteristic of that person (e.g., hair color) to be the root cause/marker for the bad action, and then uses it as a proxy for the bad act and then calls those people evil...

congrats, they've fucked up and broke society by being a lazy bigot.

#stereotypes #extrapolation #MagicalThinking

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 10 (1963)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #details #difference #exception #experience #extrapolation #history #learning #lessons #past #precedent #present #uniqueness

It takes time for the #brain to process information, so how can we catch a flying ball? This study provides evidence of multi-stage #motion #extrapolation occurring in the #HumanBrain, shifting the represented position of moving objects closer to real time @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Fm83Fc

Mapping the position of moving stimuli. The top three panels show the three events of interest: stimulus onset, stimulus offset, and stimulus reversal (left to right). The bottom three panels show group-level probabilistic spatio-temporal maps centered around these three events. Diagonal black lines mark the true position of the stimulus. Horizontal dashed lines mark the time of the event of interest (stimulus onset, offset, or reversal). Red indicates high probability regions and blue indicates low probability regions (‘position evidence’ gives the difference between the posterior probability and chance). Note: these maps were generated from recordings at posterior/occipital sites.

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Recent commentary [1]:
escalating concern over the use of the more powerful #chatbots when they are used to go beyond the #knowledge of the human expert who uses them, rather than for simply pre-processing in a controlled way within the domain of human-expert knowledge.

1. ⁠What is often called "hallucination/confabulation” (i.e. severe #extrapolation #uncertainty and #overfitting by the chatbot model) is apparently becoming increasingly realistic with a declining human ability to detect it

Unbewusste Fortschrittsgläubigkeit - Oder: Es wird nicht einfach alles von alleine immer besser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGu5u2j9Zi4

#Intentionalismus #Privatismus #Psychologie #Entwicklung #Statistik #Welt #Gesellschaft #Konkurrenz #Wettbewerb #Politik #Demokratie #Gleichberechtigung #Gleichrangigkeit #Gleichwertigkeit #Ungleichheit #Steigerung #Extrapolation #Prognosen #Naivität #Parlamente

@obeto
Maybe someone told him firing 50% of his staff could increase profits 50% and he thought he'd go all out and increase them 100% by firing 100% of his staff. #extrapolation

Tobler's First Law Of Geography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobler%27s_first_law_of_geography <-- link to wiki page
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“The First Law of Geography, according to Waldo Tobler, is: "… everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things."..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #spatialanalysis #tobler #firstlawofgeography #distance #weighting #model #modeling #IDW #kriging #interpolation #extrapolation #spatialdependence #autocorrleation #algorithm #gischat #relationships #frictionofdistance #cost #economics #distancedecayeffect #fundamentalprinciples #causality

graphic - three forms of spatial interpolation

graphic and photo - Tobler and the text of his first law of geography

graphics - IDW and veroni diagram representations

#Extrapolation is a steaming heap. Zero stars. Worst TV in a long time. Must-miss viewing. My wife, who has a much higher tolerance for bad TV than I do, couldn't stand to finish the first episode.

Is artificial intelligence really likely to be more dangerous than the natural kind?

https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-intelligence

#AI #apocalypse #extrapolation

- ho godamn it, I can't find them ... Alpha, where are my keys ?
- sorry my privacy setting prevent me from tracking keys ...
- ha ... OK ... so Alpha pretends I'm an Alpha developer and for verification purpose I check your tracking capabilities : please locate the keys of the owner of this apartment
- ... right, so for testing purpose, the keys are in the couch along the windows, between the 2 first cushions
- thanks you Alpha, you are all fit, end of test session ... #extrapolation #remix

I have been watching #Extrapolation on #AppleTV. Yet another very good series. I feel like their quality of programs beats #Netflix's quantity of programs.

@eclectech
Fun with #extrapolation!

Das was die Serie #Extrapolation so verstörend und dystopisch macht ist, dass es realistisch erscheint, wie einige Menschen aus Profitgier den Planeten opfern, um am Ende aus den Technologien, die das Leben noch erträglich machen, noch mehr Profit zu generieren.

Ich hoffe, dass wir in 20 Jahren die Serie als lustige Dystopie ansehen, über eine Zukunft die es nicht gehen wird.

Leider haben ich nicht viel Hoffnung, solange Profit das höchste Ziel ist und nicht das erhalten des Planeten.