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fromPsychology Today
11 hours ago

The Hidden Connection Between Information and Consciousness

The ordered state is a low-entropy state, and entropy measures the system's proximity to the most probable (equilibrium) state. Therefore, a system is "far from equilibrium" if its components are statistically correlated, because correlation among components is order. When parts are correlated rather than independent, you have structure.The system occupies a state that's improbable relative to chance. You can predict something about one part by knowing about another.
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fromFuturism
3 months ago

Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by "Advanced Extraterrestrials"

Estimates suggest unguided prebiotic chemistry is extraordinarily unlikely to produce life, leaving directed panspermia as a logically open, though less parsimonious, possibility.
fromBitcoin Magazine
5 months ago

How CoinJoins Achieve Anonymity In A Crowd

Anonymity is the end goal when studying privacy, and de-anonymization is likened to a guessing game where an adversary attempts to identify individuals from a set of candidates.
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fromPsychology Today
6 months ago

AI Is a Smooth Operator, but Shallow Thinker

LLMs compress language but lose the subtlety of human understanding.
They mimic thought, but lack true semantic depth or nuance.
AI fluency hides the deeper cognitive blind spot that coherence isn't comprehension.
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