This article makes me feel really stupid because it is making the case that there is some profound new discovery about consciousness when I see nothing profound whatsoever. To me, the most meaningful excerpt is:

“The babies in our study have revealed something really profound: that there is action in the midst of inaction, and inaction in the midst of action. Both provide meaningful information to the infant exploring the world and its place in it,” said Kelso. “The coordination dynamics of movement and stillness jointly constitute the unity of the baby’s conscious awareness – that they can make things happen in the world. Intentionally.”

Yes, and? So a baby learns from that the mobile directly correlates to its own leg moving and not moving? How is this anything profound and how do it explain anything new about consciousness? I don’t mean to downplay novel new experiments (which this is), but I’m not seeing anything “groundbreaking,” “profound,” or the “birth of purpose.” I get that understanding how infants learn is important, but I don’t see anything new in these results, we’ve known about cause-and-effect learning for a long time.

If someone can edify me on any profound implications of this, I would be thankful.

Paying for posts, relays is better incentive alignment for users and maintainers than twitter or the fediverse

The overlap between crypto nerds and tech early adopters is pretty high

While people have a point that it shouldn’t matter whether your shit stinks, I appreciate knowing about this now. 🙂

I’m glad that yours is the top response. Have you also noticed that people on the fediverse seem extreme?

nostr is mainly used by bitcoiners (not a lot of crypto) right now. Moreover, scammy people love to advertise on new platforms.

GME is in crypto, though, so it’s not like people should be anti-crypto.

Nostr is very young so they haven’t really solved the bot problem yet, but there is activity there too. So right now it may seem sketchy but thats the case with all fresh platforms/protocols. Same thing happened with the Fediverse before they had account-creation controls

What’s evidence is there that the mods in Superstonk are compromised?