Fellow travelers journeying through or near neuroscience, data science, “ai” aka machine “learning” aka pattern recognition and automated optimization, it’s worth sending out some basic methodological papers every once in a while:
• Joseph Henrich, WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, Harvard UP, 2022.
Henrich, Joseph, Steven Heine,
Ara Norenzayan, "The
Weirdest People in the World,"
2009.
• Robert Epstein, "The empty brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer"
Robert Epstein is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California. He is the author of 15 books, and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today.
Why we do not want to impose cognitive load on users via “natural” language interfaces, when signal processing (AI++) now is strong enough to enable multimodal gesture-following as an alternative modality for human-machine interaction.
• Valerie Gray Hardcastle and C. Matthew Stewart, "What Do Brain Data Really Show?" Philosophy of Science 69.3 (2000). (attached pdf)
• David Donoho, 50 Years of Data Science
• CS Calude, Giuseppe Longo, "The Deluge of Spurious Correlations in Big Data” Foundations of Science 22, 595–612 (2017).
• Donald G Saari, “Mathematical Complexity of Simple Economics,” AMS (1995) (attached pdf)
Even simple, standard price adjustment models from economics – used to model the “invisible hand” story of Adam Smith – admit highly chaotic behavior.
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