voodooattack
@voodooattack@lemmy.world
- Comment on RIP to Universe #342, hope they’re doing well without me 1 day ago:
Ok, but hear me out. What if the universe is the insides of a quantum computation doing a Levin search based on reversible computation? Aka every time you truly hesitate before making a decision you’re doing a quick-save?
- Comment on Disc drive needed 1 week ago:
A picture of a device called “DVD Rewinder”
We had to use these dammit.
- Comment on Good ole reviews 1 week ago:
Depends on whether they use
floororceil. From observation, most systems round down. - Comment on Good ole reviews 1 week ago:
This my moment. I have been waiting for this for so long.
Actually, a rating of 5 means all the reviews are 5 stars. Any other rating would drop it below 5.
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 2 weeks ago:
I find it wondrous how oblivious you’re being to the fact that your words make you seem just as bad as the kind of extremism you’re describing.
Zeal needs no religion to breed extremist views, just the hubris of a self-righteous person who thinks they know enough to judge all. Then religion becomes a tool to justify whatever opinion they’re trying to impose and whatever acts they choose to commit. Violence included.
So I don’t think being a militant atheist gives you superpowers. Nearly been there, almost done that. Stopped and did a U turn at some point. Sought answers. Then found my peace and own dogma. I encourage you to try and do the same.
Scientific version of what I’m trying to say if you’re interested (contributions welcome if you’re a neuroscientist or have access to an LLM with access to journals).
- Comment on When God Sings, We All Sing 2 weeks ago:
Especially when it makes you shiver all the way up and down. 🐢
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 2 weeks ago:
They just highjacked another metric
- Comment on IRJ 5 weeks ago:
Source? I’m a middle aged Muslim and this is definitely the first time I’ve heard for this. Islam only prohibits religious iconography due to the whole idolatry thing. But no hard rules exist in the Quran. Also Hadith is quite debatable compared to Quranic verse.
- Comment on IRJ 5 weeks ago:
This is a regular expression. The one they gave matches the start of a sequence of characters, followed by one or more arbitrary character(s) and ending with a lower case ‘a’ then ‘n’ then the end of sequence exactly.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
Post it. You know which meme.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 5 weeks ago:
What’s the name of that book?
- Comment on More chickens! 1 month ago:
The neighbour’s name? Leonardo Bonacci
- Comment on More chickens! 1 month ago:
This needs to be posted as a top level comment.
- Comment on More chickens! 1 month ago:
Best Pratchett to ever preach it.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 1 month ago:
Not if the push in question reassigns the value itself. And since we’re subsuming, I’ll base it off current fintech: imagine a blockchain but instead of smart contracts you do inference and buy tokens. That’s what upcoming tech is trying to work out the mechanics of.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 1 month ago:
And there’s the third method: subsume it from within. Build a capitalistic product that depreciates a category and eliminates demand, thus rendering entire industries and their related activities obsolete.
It’s why renewable energy is being fought tooth and nail.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
Oh. I think there’s a misunderstanding here. I don’t ask for a single instance’s opinion on the epistemic correctness of my ideas.
Depending on the problem, I ask for one of the following:
- computational proof if applicable (the skill in question triggers its own audit/code review)
- evidence backed by citations and a rational synthesis session (meta-cognitive skill)
- an adversarial design session (meta-cognitive skill that teaches instances to argue for and against their own beliefs)
- a full triggering of a (possibly distributed) schemata session (another meta-cognitive skill that orchestrates multiple smaller ones, expensive on the token budget and I can’t currently afford it)
- Neckbearding (ditto, but with a Cartesian product matrix of questions vs answers, ultrarationalist style)
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
A neurodivergent with RSI that doesn’t give a shit about your opinion of how they should live their life, nor care about justifying themselves to you since we’ve reached this point.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
No I haven’t, and I’m not sure where to get one or if that’s even possible where I live tbh
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
How about a neurodivergent mind as the baseline? Did you consider the possibility?
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
Repetitive strain injury. And yeah. It sucks being unable to type as a software dev
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
I’m not downvoting you because of your religion, as much as I hold it in contempt
Okay
I’m downvoting you for spouting shit you made up like it’s a fact, and for using a lot of scientific terms to say absolutely nothing of value
Here is your value, so go test my claims.
You’re nowhere near as clever as you think you are
Not as near as clever as I want to be for sure
Which is evident already by the fact that you are religious. Don’t breed. So many words just to end up back where you started.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
What’s wrong with this? Making sure you’re right should obviously be a priority.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
Do you even know what RSI means? I am personally experiencing pain as I type these characters.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
I am not handing you AI answers, I’m having AI translate from what I know/intuit to what’s widely known
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
Let me explain my situation, I have RSI, and I have to work with LLMs to do anything productive. I know what the sycophancy is like and I work as an AI Engineer at an AI Startup to begin with so I know how to prompt them.
Regarding the content of what I presented, the original comment was me trying to describe something I know innately from cross-domain observations and producing layman terms, so here is what happen when I sit down with LLMs to produce something serious out of these observations as I describe and they translate/make connections with academic nomenclature: gist.github.com/…/2731bfb21d0873a8f77c84a91833571…
(Was sadly interrupted by tight session limits because of financial circumstances that have no bearing on this conversation and/or content)
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
Here are the sources. I do not post AI answers, just a translation from my content-addressed brain to label-addressed academic nomenclature. Consider my use of LLMs a prosthetic or translator because that’s what it functionally is in this scenario.
Key Academic References for Further Reading
If you would like to explore the foundational research behind these ideas, the following papers and books provide the technical context and nuance:
1. On the “Overfitted” Brain and Cognitive Rigidity
- Hoel, E. (2021). “The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization.” Patterns, 2(5). [^2]
- Note: This is the primary source for the “overfitting” framework as applied to biological brains. It argues that limited, repetitive environmental input (like early-life conditioning) leads to a loss of generalizability.
2. On Ideological Rigidity and Cognitive Flexibility
- Zmigrod, L. (2020). “A Psychology of Ideology: Unpacking the Psychological Structure of Ideological Thinking.” Perspectives on Psychological Science. [^1]
- Note: This work moves away from the content of beliefs and toward the psychological structure of ideological thinking, providing the empirical basis for why rigidity manifests consistently across political, religious, and dogmatic spectrums.
3. On Memory Reconsolidation and Identity Protection
- Nader, K., & Hardt, O. (2009). “The effects of consolidation and reconsolidation on memory.” Trends in Neurosciences.
- Note: This is a foundational paper on how established memories (like core values/identity) are not static but can be rendered labile (malleable) and then updated—or “torn down and rebuilt”—during the reconsolidation window.
- Kahan, D. M. (2013). “Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection.” Judgment and Decision Making.
- Note: This research details how “identity-protective cognition” causes the brain to filter or dismiss conflicting evidence, acting as a defense mechanism for core beliefs.
Providing these sources allows for a much more grounded discussion than a general synthesis. The core of the argument—that cognitive rigidity functions similarly to an overfitted computational model and requires significant “re-training” to alter—is a testable and discussed hypothesis in current neuroscientific and psychological literature.
References
[^1]: A Psychology of Ideology: Unpacking the Psychological Structure of… (60%) [^2]: The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (40%)
- Hoel, E. (2021). “The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization.” Patterns, 2(5). [^2]
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
You’re right, sorry for not providing citations in my original comment. I’m a dilettante with cross-domain interests so my enthusiasm sometimes beats my scientific rigor to the finish line.
I’ve asked Kagi to compile a report and here is what it has found:
Report on the Neurobiology of Ideological Rigidity and Belief Persistence
The observations shared previously regarding “crystallized” beliefs and neural rigidity align with several established frameworks in neuroscience, psychology, and computational modeling. While the original comment used metaphorical language, it maps closely to these peer-reviewed concepts:
1. The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis The idea that rigid conditioning limits future learning is supported by the Overfitted Brain Hypothesis (OBH). In machine learning, “overfitting” occurs when a model becomes so tuned to its training data that it loses the ability to generalize. Neuroscientist Erik Hoel proposes that the human brain faces the same risk: if our input is too narrow or repetitive (from a young age), the brain risks “overfitting” to that bias, leading to cognitive rigidity. Dreams, in this model, serve as a necessary “regularization” mechanism to inject noise and prevent this crystallization.
2. Cognitive Rigidity and Ideological Extremity Research into the “ideological brain” confirms that cognitive rigidity is a structural trait linked to extremism across the spectrum—whether religious, political, or secular. Studies demonstrate that individuals with higher levels of dogmatism and ideological extremism consistently show lower cognitive flexibility, regardless of the specific belief system held. This reinforces the notion that the computational structure of a rigid belief system is more important than the content of the belief itself.
3. Synaptic Consolidation and Reconsolidation The “crystallization” of belief has a biological basis in synaptic consolidation, where frequently used pathways become structurally reinforced. To change these beliefs requires memory reconsolidation—a process where an established memory is brought back into a labile (malleable) state. This process is metabolically and cognitively demanding because it requires the brain to override long-standing neural “ground truths,” explaining the profound resistance individuals show when their core identity-protective beliefs are challenged.
4. Identity-Protective Cognition When beliefs are tied to core identity, the brain treats challenges to those beliefs as physical threats. This is known as identity-protective cognition, where the brain effectively ignores contradictory evidence to maintain the stability of the current mental model. This explains why debate is often ineffective against deeply held dogmas; the brain is not failing to process information, it is actively filtering it to maintain structural integrity.
Summary: While the original post employed lay-terms (e.g., “forbidden metabolic cost”), these align with the scientific consensus on how brains optimize for stability at the expense of flexibility. The framing of rigid, prejudice-prone thought as an “overfitted” neural state is a recognized, albeit high-level, computational interpretation of how ideology manifests in the brain.
- Comment on Thats you 1 month ago:
That’s a falafel
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
A racist is what happens when someone runs out of neural plasticity due to conditioning from a young age. They aren’t interested in your opinion because their brains have no space left for anything but bigotry. That means a condition where new synaptic connections between neurons can no longer form due to preexisting crystallised connections occupying the same volume. They literally can’t change their mind without tearing something down first.
There is a literal forbidden metabolic cost to changing how they think, and since bigotry is embedded as a core value, taking that out is impossible without tearing them down and building them back up from a ground state.
You’ll find echoes of this same phenomenon in all walks of life. Religious fundamentalists/zealots/extremists of any religion exhibit this, and also “militant” atheists. It also applies to ideology. Communist vs Capitalist vs Socialist. We’re all blends of beliefs that want to be known.
I’m going to be downvoted hard for this, but you’ll know the type.
Note if you’re wondering: I am Muslim and I practice my faith. So long it harms and obstructs no one, practicing and taking pride in your faith (or lackthereof) is a healthy expression of freedom, my views are my own opinions and I welcome dialogue in place of a meaningless downvote.
