Eliezer Masliah, a top scientist in neurodegeneration and top NIH official has likely manipulated hundreds of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's paper and findings over the last 2 decades, potentially leading to billions of misallocated funds and research focus in the broader scientific community. He might get shunned for this in the community but will ultimately fall softly and continue to work in the field. It's a pity that there are no larger repercussions for falsifying data in research given the large implications this can have. https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-finding-neuroscientist-eliezer-masliah-papers-under-suspicion #science #alzheimer #brain #neurology #NIH #neuobiology #Parkinson #fraud
If anybody is looking for an interesting read, give "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business a try"
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 I was expecting yet another boring "marketing book" when I picked it up but it goes surprisingly deep into #cognition, #psychology and #society in general. I enjoyed it. #books #science #brain #neurobiology #psychology #reading
Great article from "The Pessimists Archive" about the hot legal debate about "Fake News" and fake photography >100 years in the US. This is just as much applicable to today's AI discussions and the just starting controversy on AI generated deep fakes and the likes. Nothing is really new, history repeats itself & hopefully we as a society can learn and improve from it in the long run. On a side-note: the pessimists archive is a great website in general if you want to read about the worries and fights of the past against new technologies. Pretty much every new technology (electricity, phone, bicycle, cars, planes, etc.) had been vilified, people have been afraid of it and did not understand it before it became common reality. #bitcoin and #nostr are just another link in this long chain of this techno-pessimism.
The 1912 War on Fake Photos
Concern about deceptively edited photos feels like a very modern anxiety, yet a century ago similar worries were being litigated...
 "Concern about deceptively edited photos feels like a very modern anxiety, yet a century ago similar worries were being litigated... Portrait photography gave rise to an industry of photo ‘retouching’ - analog ‘beauty filters’ - to flatter subjects in a way portrait painters once did. This trend lead to questions about technology distorting our perceptions of beauty, reality and truth" #nostr #fakenews #photography #deepfakes #ai #bitcoin #regulations #freespeech #
I was listening to @Peter McCormack 's recent podcast with Matthew Pines and their discussion about consciousness as an underlying component of the universe. Interesting on many levels. The philosophy he described from Philipp Goff about the meaning of life that Matthew mostly seems to follow (with some modifications), reminded me a lot about the philosophy described in Gregory Roberts 2003 novel Shantaram that he expresses in the person of Khader Khan which can be summarized maybe as "everything that contributes to the complexity and richness of existence is meaningful" and that the "the universe is driven by the need to evolve, grow, and expand its possibilities" In his words, the whole point of everything in the universe is that the universe becomes more interesting. If one leads a life that maximizes the probability to make the universe more complex, one has lead a good life. Every act of goodness or evil, every choice we make, adds to the complexity and interest of the universe which is how he justifies his role as a mafia leader, as he sees even crime and violence as part of the greater purpose of making the universe more complex. I have not read Goff's book "Why" yet but I wonder if there is some overlap and references to these viewpoints. Would be interesting as Robert's book predates this by 2 decades and comes from a spiritual/religious viewpoint whereas Matthew Pines seems to come more from a rationalistic approach. #books #philosophy #consciousness #universe #purpose #podcast #religion #spirituality
What happened a couple days ago on September 14th that Nostr saw such a spike in new users? Was there an announcement of someone famous that they switch to Nostr? image #asknostr #nostr #stats