The relationship between the Default Mode Network and a rich inner life seems like a reasonable enough connection, as does the relationship between DMN activity and loneliness.
What would be fascinating to me is an exploration of causality.
Can feelings of loneliness be increased by an upregulation (dTCS) of Default Mode Network activity? Can they be reduced by a downregulation? Can either of those be performed without substantially changing the subjects conscious qualia or internal states?
This will be really interesting to watch in a few years.
Yeah! AutoML lets you export a TensorFlow.js version of the model to Google cloud storage, and there's a frontend library, tfjs-automl (https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/tree/master/tfjs-automl), that downloads the model and sets it up for detections.
Then I'm connecting to the device's webcam with navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia, and twice a second send a reference to the video stream object to the detector, which runs inferences locally and returns the coordinates of any detected objects.
There's some glue code to do the whole dance to connect to the camera and model, but after that it works pretty seamlessly, on my desktop and mobile browsers
To quote Andrew Lewis, "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product."
You'll know when a user of a Dopamine-backed app installs Space, and that's useful to you. Measuring people trying to give up an addiction feeds back in to understanding the causes of addiction, and in your case presumably gives you quantifiable information you can use to make Dopamine more effective. Saying you made it and give it away out of the goodness of your heart seems a little underhanded.
Your company is still about making shit addictive. Its customers will inevitably be those with the money & inclination to make their app addictive - social media & mobile games. Its morally pretty close to adding sugar to junk food or selling cigarettes.
You were going to clear up "mob misconceptions" about ethics but it turns out you had nothing to say, just an "invitation for discourse".. while most of the tech world has been in on this particular discourse for years, with constant media coverage, and we know its a problem.
But I'm pretty sure you know all of that. Don't expect public approval for making glorified/AI-powered slot machines, they're still just slot machines.
Bruh. Just adding another app to 'counteract' the effects isn't going to suddenly clear you of ethical issues. It's the equivalent of mcdonalds selling salads...
'Also, you have a close sarcasm tag with no open sarcasm tag' -- sarcasm does not start by priming people of what to come. Especially those who would take you words seriously and start to relate to your comment.
Ok so I actually watched most of that on crappy internet - and there are many places where there are big issues with the underlying assumptions.
I think around the 14 minute mark or something you made a statement that people need to be aware of the apps they choose.
Prior to that you had argued that (mostly for the first world) behavioral choices are the root of the major causes of morbidity.
Your redeeming speech comes at around the 20 minute mark.
Issues first:
1) you assume people have a choice - and that inherently Discounts the over size impact of bad actors and antagonists.
This point alone, fundamentally changes the constants underpinning the model you tacitly must be running to support your other predictions.
2) people are terrible at making a lot of choices on average. People choosing good apps over bad is similar to hoping people make good life style choices.
Unlikely, and far too path dependent. Unless you are highly informed, educated about skinner/conditioning and tech aware and cynical - you won’t succeed.
3) a lot of those behavioral problems have arisen from large firms using old school behavioral influencing to create that situation.
There is no basis for hope that more behavioral tools will solve the problem.
20 minutes onwards though, and you have a much better Wicket - at least up to the point I’ve watched.
Which is another thing. Very few people are going to watch a 30 minute video of you speaking, especially when we’re on a text based forum.
1138 is one of my favorite documentaries about the future. There are a lot of naysayers around here, but only because of the high fidelity mirror you present them with. It is only their own self loathing.
