<![CDATA["there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired.]]>"there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. This suggests that if we can shut down the distractions of our environment, it is possible to recover focus."

Inevitability and "ability decay" explanations essentially teach us learned helplessness about the things we experience, when really, we could change our environments. This is why I'm so against brain-based scare tactics.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01407-w

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grimalkina/statuses/116539125280076162https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grimalkina/statuses/116539125280076162Fri, 08 May 2026 13:12:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 11:48:56 GMT]]>@Voline @grimalkina

Internet blockers, etc, do wonders for productivity.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://io.mwl.io/users/mwl/statuses/116538798040746665https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://io.mwl.io/users/mwl/statuses/116538798040746665Fri, 08 May 2026 11:48:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:59:42 GMT]]>@bms48 @grimalkina I'll try my best with this one. If you know the presenter tell him to get his stuff on peer tube. 😛

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538132582174064https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538132582174064Fri, 08 May 2026 08:59:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:59:01 GMT]]>@bms48 @grimalkina thx so much 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538129867842672https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538129867842672Fri, 08 May 2026 08:59:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:58:56 GMT]]>@chloechloechloe @grimalkina Also Prof. Michael Woolridge from February at the Royal Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyyL0yDhr7I

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116538129556245807https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116538129556245807Fri, 08 May 2026 08:58:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:58:12 GMT]]>@chloechloechloe @grimalkina "Sweedack" (short for: Je suis d'accord from "The Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner which is very relevant to the current sociopolitical situation developing). You may find Grady Booch illuminating on this topic which I've just posted as part of a response on another thread here on Fedi https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/software-architecture-with-grady-booch

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116538126638011691https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116538126638011691Fri, 08 May 2026 08:58:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:55:11 GMT]]>@bms48 @grimalkina

Yes. Thx for pointing out the conflation although it is a bit of an idiosyncratic rhetorical device I use for brevity. It's habitual rather than deliberate. Ok, so yea, making allusion to neuro-divergence follows from an unenviable cognitive trap, sure. But I also think that we expect more-than-rationally from "Ai" the moment we speak of 'human values', at all, and approximating these is both an implicit deification of machine and dangerously narrow thinking .

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538114791857898https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538114791857898Fri, 08 May 2026 08:55:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:45:14 GMT]]>@bms48 @grimalkina
Yes, I love that quote. Hold up a moment while I try and reply to your previous comment and clalrify my nascent understanding. ^^

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538075653831854https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538075653831854Fri, 08 May 2026 08:45:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:43:38 GMT]]>@chloechloechloe @grimalkina On the misplaced personification we can agree on. AGI (is that what we're calling it again this week? /s) is still very far off; just ask Gary Marcus. Yann Lecun is in denial about this IMHO. Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil": "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himselfcdoes not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, theabyss will also gaze into you."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116538069384769311https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116538069384769311Fri, 08 May 2026 08:43:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:40:59 GMT]]>@chloechloechloe @grimalkina It is difficult to tell whether you are deliberately conflatingconcept here or not and that seems to be the source of some misunderstanding here. If you are discussing how human system prompts affect the output of a system when you discuss "alignment", then that is entirely different, from falling into the cognitive trap of believing one is doing more than that when employing the terminology to discuss process. That is what I'm objecting to.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116538058945985696https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116538058945985696Fri, 08 May 2026 08:40:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:27:47 GMT]]>@bms48 @grimalkina

"Ai's ability to make extremely fine-grained yet systematic decisions cuts both ways It could make things either much better or worse, depending on whether AI systems are appropriately aligned with human values"

-- "Moral disagreement and the limits of AI value alignment" (2025)

/Yes, I see. The premise of "alignment" is completely stupid./

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538007068028366https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116538007068028366Fri, 08 May 2026 08:27:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 07:59:06 GMT]]>@bms48 @grimalkina

Just reading from article "...One concern is the /technical alignment problem/ given a desired informally specified set of goals or values, how can we imbue an AI system with them?"

At least, I can remark that I shirk from the level of personification, here.

I might also add a quote from Nietzsche: "Only individuals feel responsibility". I feel this is apt and even if we reach a modern Prometheus machine with general intelligence.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116537894247526153https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116537894247526153Fri, 08 May 2026 07:59:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 03:58:59 GMT]]>@grimalkina I hate to say this, but Nature has really been going down the sh!tter as of late.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116536950116579496https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116536950116579496Fri, 08 May 2026 03:58:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 03:57:01 GMT]]>@chloechloechloe @grimalkina Some idiot who I called out tonight on his deep-learning biased narrative when he called ME out on questioning the whole ethos of "AI" "alignment" when it is scientifically known that LLMs are not conscious entities... tried to fob me off with a "neurodiversity" allusion on me which I immediately shut down. Modern pseudo-religious babble. What gets me is that I cited actual "AI" research and researchers. What an idiot.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116536942360922613https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116536942360922613Fri, 08 May 2026 03:57:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Fri, 08 May 2026 03:54:49 GMT]]>@grimalkina I'm all in on this at the moment, a lot of it is common sense, Charb who illustrated it was assassinated in the Charlie Hebdo, Paris attack: https://www.amazon.com/Short-Course-Intellectual-Self-Defense-ebook/dp/B00541YJJS

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116536933684833654https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116536933684833654Fri, 08 May 2026 03:54:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "there is little evidence that the brain’s fundamental ability to concentrate has been impaired. on Thu, 07 May 2026 16:05:33 GMT]]>@grimalkina Thanks for sharing this. My capstone project for programming was essentially based on such a view. With so many competing interests how can we harness executive control? That there is also a narrative of neuro-determinism is new for me but not entirely surprising either! ^^

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116534144783233354https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://musician.social/users/chloechloechloe/statuses/116534144783233354Thu, 07 May 2026 16:05:33 GMT