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The adrenal cortex (i.e., fight-or-flight) is a good example where your brain-in-the-body reacts before your conscious awareness.

Counterpoint: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/11/portland-mayor-t...

Local officials feel more pressure from the business community.

It’s really difficult to show that emotions exist independently of the autonomic nervous system. Sure you can just ask people, but the challenges of reliable ratings mean it’s still a legitimate question 100 years later.

For instance, who can answer today, with all of the wearables available, how much of the variance in how we feel is explainable by autonomic indicators like heart rate, sweat, activity? After the variability tied to physiology is explains, what’s left over?

Serious Eats here suggests staggering:

- Ripe within 2-3 days - with a banana in a brown paper bag

- Ripe within 3-5 days - just avocados in a brown paper bag

- Ripe within a week - open air avocados

Brown paper bag, two not fully ripe bananas with every three avocados. Leave for two days.

Optimistic about ultrasound for sleep and aging applications, the waste clearance processes are just being understood. Turning brain areas off has also been shown to help different types of performance.

Kind of, the physiology of stress and fight or flight generally isn’t, even to pro athletes. But to that point, why do you think the lessons aren’t crossing over into academics?

From the physiology, the biggest are how sleep and stress affect learning, memory, and attention. Seems obvious but I’ve yet to find a school district that starts even there.

Gross is teaching kids about how their bodies work? I’m talking basics like the physiology of sleep and stress and how both affect learning, memory, and attention.

Student athletes learn more about their bodies and performance than students do about their brains.

Questions for all the knowledge workers here (i.e., people who use their brains for their living) here:

1. When did you get your first course on neuroscience and how brains work best?

2. Did you ever learn in school a tool kit for keeping your brain performing at its best?

I’m working with our local school board, consists of over 200 schools in a wealthy county. Even as I got my PhD in Neuroscience 20 years ago, it’s bonkers to me that kids today aren’t being taught about their brains as performance muscles. The teenage mental health crisis is only being addressed as a need basis. It’s like telling people oncologists are available when you get cancer. If we want better brain health it starts with building better brain tools.

All great points, it’s wild that this small non-profit board had so much power with so little at stake for themselves. That’s a typical feature of a non-profit board, but in this case the entity wasn’t a typical non-profit.

To your points, such a split makes too much sense and the ship has probably sailed when the employees showed they have no loyalty or responsibilities to the organization itself.

This seems the simplest explanation, and relevant to the post, cause for a lawsuit. Helen could be principled about the mission, but difficult to say Adam was, given what he stood to gain.

Perhaps, but that feedback won’t be reflected in the poster itself, maybe the publication, if there is one.

Be careful with this article, it’s based on a poster at a scientific meeting, not a peer reviewed publication.

The timing of Dev Day and its impacts on Poe aren’t suspect to you?

And you don’t think D’Angelo has a conflict of interest that impacts his board role at OpenAI?

You don’t think D’Angelo has a conflict of interest?

Being spun as deeply ideological seems about right - the 3 non-profit oriented board members seem like they were already open about their views in that direction, so just took one vote to flip - D’Angelo.

Looking more and more like the dev day nuking of D’Angelo’s Poe led to this outcome. I’m surprised that connection has escaped close scrutiny - it was a conflict of interest AND now Poe is viable again as intended. For a minor player in AI he’s managed to maximize his interests and while serving on a non-profit board.

And it quickly feels personal…

While he built a rocket company and global telecommunications satellite network both hardened unlike any other against rogue AIs…

Duh, duh, dunnnnnnnne…

Third act we find out Musk was the villain all along, X being the final solution for his global mind hive.

Fin.

What about: Intercontinental ballistic missiles launch from Alaska toward China. No one knows who ordered and controls the launch. Only one man can stop them in time: Elon Musk.

Remaining curious how D’Angelo has escaped scrutiny over his apparent conflict of interests and as the “independent” board member with a clear commercial board background.

If we’re trying to add things up:

6 previous board members.

3 seem ideological and aligned more to the non-profit aims.

2 seem more aligned to the commercial aims to support the non-profit.

That leaves:

1 (D’Angelo) who seems like he would have been commercially oriented but also seems to have a conflict in Poe.

Under that math, just the one vote flipping led from balance to chaos.

And looks more and more like he had a conflict of interest with Poe which should have either put guardrails on his board role at OpenAI or led to his departure.

Has Adam’s role in this mess been reported? From the board makeup and Poe seems like he would have been aligned with Sam (investor in Quora) and Greg. Until he wasn’t…

You’re right in theory, but with the non-profit “structure” the employees are secondary to the aims of the non-profit, and specifically in an entity owned wholly by the non-profit. The board acted as a non-profit board, driven by ideals not any bottom lines. It’s crazy that whatever balance the board had was gone as the board shrunk, a minority became the majority. The profit folks must have thought D’Angelo was on their side until he flipped.

They own that in a subsidiary of the non-profit, not the controlling non-profit itself.

100%, for all the palace intrigue, this mismanagement / misalignment of the Board has been stewing for a while.

Seems pretty straightforward, the dev day was a breaking point for the non-profit interests.

Question is, how did the board become so unbalanced where this kind of dispute couldn’t be handled better? The commercial interests were not well-represented in the number of votes.