Category: Science
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Does everything come from Abstraction?
Today, I was thinking about empiricism, and how abstraction works. It was only after researching Edmund Husserl and his claim that logic is separate from psychology that I realized something. Let’s assume that we gain our understanding of logical objects from concrete objects in reality through abstraction. Wouldn’t that mean our understanding of those logical Read more
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AI Ethics and Awareness
One day, I was searching the internet when I found an article about AI that caught my attention. It’s called, “Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats.” It was a study published by Anthropic, an AI company. What the study covers is very interesting: it specifically talks about how AI can sometimes make unethical Read more
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The Ego: The need for ourselves
From the time of birth, we are self-centered. The human brain is coded in such a way that we always seek to prove ourselves to others. Even when that confidence can be detrimental to our own well-being, we still constantly need some form of recognition from other people. Just as much as we need money Read more
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Instant Gratification
Have you ever been talking with someone who is many years older than you, and they said something along the lines of “you youngins’ have everything easy. Back in my day, we used to walk into the 4th dimension to get to school”? Well, it’s an exaggeration. But something we take for granted today is Read more
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The dangerous allure of gambling
We all know that gambling is bad. Well, some of us. Most of us know that gambling with money is generally not a good idea. It’s just like any other bad thing in this world–the more you do it, the more desensitized you get, and the more tempted you are to do it again. Whether Read more
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A Voice in your Head — Why is it Important?
Filmmaking is a very hard thing to do. In a story, you can write exactly what’s happening, but in a movie, you have to show everything properly so that everything fits together. It’s a delicate process that you can easily mess up. One issue is showing a character’s thoughts to the audience. There are many Read more
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How does the brain organize information with sequences?
Imagine you have a plethora of important legal documents and folders (let’s not stress about what they are) and you’ve been told you have to fit them into a file cabinet. Furthermore, you will be utilizing these documents for a long time. The first idea that should come to your mind is organization. So, how Read more