This interesting part about this is his comment about quantity over quality to find the best outcome as a lot of leaders in the field of neural networks argue for quality of training models but I'd side more with Sapolsky on this especially after his remark about the random inputs being required to find unexpected outcomes. Very interesting.. time to go play with neural networks..

@@dakinenz Yes, no doubt the more agents you have the better the algorithm is (take for example the particle swarm algorithm). But you need a very long time to run it. But instead if you have agents with higher quality (with more intelligence about the target) you can achieve the same performance as the algorithm with large number of agents with less time. Maybe thats what the experts are experimenting about.

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@@dakinenz since you dabbled in neural network, I'm interested in the similarity of our capabilities to transform impulses into observed after Wich we simulate the world into a perception of the moment recalling life and the planning of the possible future of said past experience, you know life Though I'm definitely not specialized and I'm pretty others should have theorized this but aren't Dna and programming to similar and computers can do individual tasks we do pretty good. Combining abstract thought is more diffucl but abstract thought is the combination of simple things as science explains pretty good. Is the problem computing power or our lack of understanding of individual processes?

Hahaha ! Right on brother !. I'm watching the whole lecture. I remember him saying that 3 activities decrease the efficiency of the prefrontal cortex : drugs, pornography and social isolation. While the whole planet are turning into fat angry apes, both of us are gonna come out of this quarantine with more education then everyone else. lol

@@ThePandemicvideos hahahah truth has been said! actually im watching language lecture right now!

Same here. This one is probably my favorite lecture in the series thus far. And there are only 2 more left to go

Sounds like a good attraction/repulsion rule to me.

As good as Netflix.

try emailing him!

Same here!

@@chrispaika8469 what's his address?

SAME. E-mail Dr Sapolsky

Same!

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@Cory Kotonski haha, wtf!? - scam

Totally

d You end up in a bubble. . . . . . . . . . How big ? More important, what is in that bubble ? The Now (current thoughts unwinding in your forehead, Uh,, Neo Cortex? could be any of the those probabilities) AND the observation that crumpled all the possibilities as in the lone electron showing up where it should. Ah how much do you remember from 10 seconds ago ? There you go. no one will know. Only You. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change now, redistribute the wealth. We ALL own the resources. Democracy for the 99% who own 1% Socialism for the 1% who own 99% Well ? Are you like Collen ? Who Could have stood up for the 99%. The 1% makes WARs.

There's nothing like a clean fan.

He has a slightly more Ernest tone of voice than bob ross but just as calming an engaging.

what is it about this lecture that gets us in a cleaning mood lol?? a friend recommended me this video and about 1 minute in i had to pause it to vacuum my room, and then when i came back i ended up cleaning out my closet while the video played, too haha

Just cleaning out kitchen cabinets while this fabulous man lectures

Very fanny.

Oh really? what's the title of your study? Also can you recommend any books on the subject?

Electrochemical energy storage - it'll take a long time to explain the connection. Are you interested in specific topics that were covered in the lecture or nonlinear dynamics in general?

Thanos Tiliakos Quantity not quality for more complex brains, nearest neighbour interactions, how generalists work better in these systems that specialists, emergence. Pretty much the whole talk, this 'systems' approach compared to reductionism. Would you say those 2 lectures would fall under the heading nonlinear dynamics? Electrochemical energy storage, not what i was expecting, welcome to elaborate

Tristan Dry I tend to compile all these under Dynamical Systems, which is not strictly correct: I should be saying Complexity Science. Instead of a book list, let me do the next best thing and recommend a platform of online classes by the Santa Fe Institute, specializing in Complexity - the next class of Intro to Complexity starts on the 31st of March, there's an ongoing class on Chaos & Dynamical Systems right now: www.complexityexplorer.org/ I suspect you'll find what you need there. I usually post my publications on www.academia.edu, with the electrochem one coming up soon. I won't give details on youtube, though, sorry.

Thanos Tiliakos Thanks! I will definitely enroll in the intro to complexity course. I recently bought Complexity:A guided tour, and it turns out the author of that book is the instructor of that course, intro to complexity. Thanks for your help, good luck with your research

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I'd approximate his beard's fractal dimension is about 2.6.

Free university from a brilliant professor...love of learning in the age of Corona.

Can you see the connection between this concept and Carl Jung's "Anima?"

Sometimes the autist focuses at the system level, the big picture, and understands what others do not. Lots of people with Aspergers are 'system thinkers'. It is how we see, for example, through the propaganda of religious systems and cult leaders and quacks such as snake oil salesmen, and how we debug complex software based on scant forensic clues.

@SakuraWulf all I see is the connection between my dick and ur mom

The class is so dull, the dude is funny as fuck, but not would even laugh😂😂😂😂

agreed!! my fav

That's a very on-point and interesting recommendation, thanks a bunch.

Zappa, King of Freedom!

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Enjoy that debt lol

These lectures should be "required?" as part of any education program where their graduates and/or grad students, TA's etc will be required to teach anyone as a condition of obtaining a degree. Especially "Education" majors going to primary education. AKA school teachers. As a blind, if they cannot finish them, they get booted out of the program in the first semester for good because they probably shouldn't be ALLOWED to teach anyone.

@mikeypeinado383 what does that mean?

@wendellbabin6457 With gratitude, thanks for the reply... 🙏 Regardless of content. The gratitude that was thrown up here seems to be relating to the professor's teaching style, nothing more. There is no foundation for my opinion to matter here, for far too many reasons. Not only am I not a college graduate, but just don't feel qualified to say. What impressed me was that such prestigious schools post up courses such as these, for us, free of charge to learn from. What it appears that was being expressed here, months ago, was simple gratitude for the opportunity to be a part of this class. Perhaps then, selfishly, we can see me stoked on understanding some of the content. Thanks to the way the information was being presented. It could be dishonest of me to say the content doesn't interest me. It's very rare to see, if at all, me comment or post on any platforms. It's foolish. Perhaps due to changes in the ways of seeing. Today, engaging in the act of living and being present in the feelings have become more important today.. Plus, There are probably dozens of thoughts that pass through on the daily where the following week, one can notice himself with a whole different outlook or take on things. What I do love is learning. This class must have caught me of gaurd as did the reply, in this early A.M. as one, lol, babbles on. (Ah geeze...) Education is essential for growth... We are lucky and blessed to have opportunities, for free, are we not? Can't learning be engaging and enjoyable. See, the comment above says simply, "enjoy the debt lol..." Literally, if I am being perfectly honest,... -no clue 🤷‍♂️ ...seriously at a loss, as to what that even means,... The "private-hilarity..." of this world's "comment-section-spaces..." is beyond me, so much metaphorical-candor usually, strange or off-beat comical, I guess I just don't get it. 🤔 Thank you again, as one notices himself laugh'n at his own foolishness. Still, education is important. Is it not? Can't it be fun, engaging, adaptable... all students are not built the same... See... [Yesterday A.M. was brilliant, beautiful, difficult and so worth it. The simple feeling of sharing coffee with a special someone. That class session left me speechless and peaceful, with the lessons still synching in... Again, that is a "brilliant professor," If some of us "slow-learner's" were less chatty and more... 🤔[...ahh geeze... lost ma train of 😆] ....dang it:) ...perhaps the world just needs more engaging professors? ..or maybe a smoother curriculum for specific students, especially grad students¿ And again, yesterday mornings engineering course was worth more than all the words and lessons in all the classrooms in all the world🌎. Slow-learners can be in fact to smart for their own good. As cliche as that statement is. How can we help them? Lecture after lecture especially opinion based format can suck. Kids in the back can have hearing problems, ...schools with budget cuts won't allow headsets for all the students. It's as if the system doesn't even understand it can lose even more money when a student has to retake a course because of hearing issues, misunderstandings or no tuduring options...? How can we engage more, feel more... fun, be an inspiration more... to be able to feel engaged in a debate-able conversation about education can be enjoyable. Maybe not as enjoyable as a classroom that offers coffee sessions and snacks. Yet, and agian, being as humble as one can here, if we are that unwilling to see students as individuals, therefore NOT involving them in their own learning... What if we are missing out on some future leaders, future teachers... The same dull lectures, barely audible, for some kids... class after class,.. How can the information absorb? It's not for me to say. This was DEFINITELY NOT the case here nor was it personally, yesterday A.M., See, the engineering class had an incredible instructor, with only a few dull, irrelevant, "comment-section-snark," the whole class. There were more than one of us who could see some of the students ears shut-off for those fee moments. Then turn on again instant once it stopped. Totally worth it... It's a shame that some kids still need a course on being able to speak and understand in their own tounge, or rather the language of the collegiate. But is it not more of a shame that their are NO courses, no-one willing to teach this? Looking back at one's own or even another's comment's can be misunderstood and even, often harsh. What I think the comment from @anthonyourbrother was expressing was simply, gratitude for understanding more in this class and more EVERY session... with the professor serving coffee cake ☕️ If it were possible, I'd love to take any course that professor dishes out. Professor's like her can set up a student for success for the whole day... then, even the maditory lecture noise can maybe absorb better... 🙂🙏⚕️ The thing is,.. Humbly drawing only from personal experience. So please take these words as simple (opinion-based-nonsense ma-friend, above all else...) non certainly, there is a lesson, one could say (masterclass lesson) whether it be..., "physical - chemistry ("physio")or psychologically based" where-in a person is in the dee p process of... learning,... after passing the pre-requisite courses, the "private study," where a Personal-Tudor or sponsorship IS mandatory programming/ "de-programming," [social-structurally sensitive learning...] Leadership/Grad-School- [(important stuff)] Involving "one-on-one" based learning in the home involves deception-based equations, solutions and services for student based specifics, personal to that students needs. What if we could fast-track this ever evolving format a lil smoother? What if more classrooms could get their students charged-up for learning? They don't ALL.. have to offer snacks, do they? That may be too costly...¿ but then, what reasons would there be to say it's too costly? And again, WHO is saying this? And where is this funding going....? But one could argue that the school' community-based comment section itself in all it's clever-metaphorical humor... and gosh, the effort it must take to craft-dis-assemble, funding and programming that's hurtful to children. Rather than be inspirational, allowing valued students, honor-students to achieve success, keep the senses focused for wherever the day takes them. Again, not for me to say. But this man's as well as the engineering teachers approach, not perfect man, but who the hell is? At least they engage with their students one on one, repeating things to help the info download. These are teachers that care. They make a difference. I'm grateful for them, and perhaps ignorant forever to comments devoid of gratitude or.... ¿ To all those out there who believe in a better way. Let's help each other, feel-good,... about change, forgive, accept, open-up, encourage, innovate. Those who want to continue to vomit cost issues. We can restructure. The simplest thing's can lead to great solutions. When we shoot our mouths off the make sure we know where we are aiming and help others when they don't. Thanks ⚕️

I recommend listening to this and looking at all. It's a great audiobook

Classic case of ya gets what you pay for?

Actualy, yes. Its calld going to university. This is KZfaq, remember?

@Gustaw Majewski no this is old video thats why its so . i have seen other stanford videos which has all boards covered .

😂😂😂😂

Gustaw Majewski I don’t think any doubted that there is a difference between the two. Maybe should’ve paid attention in university ;)

High IQ and sense of humor wondrous when they present together.

Pretty Good?

​@@anniegaffney8378 my thoughts as well. If this is pretty good, I'd love to see a great lecturer.

+Michael Graczyk I don't think Sopolsky is claiming to be an expert in the these areas, this is a general course in biology, and he is only introducing the concepts, to people who have likely heard of these things. Your point is good about the variability, I don't think he was trying to misrepresent but just didn't get into it. Although he might have left the impression that variability was a "bad" thing, when obviously most sensible 'reductionists" understand it is usual, in fact desirable.. one is always wary of data that appears too "clean" ..

+Michael Graczyk Thank you for your comment. It addresses concerns I had about those two lectures and clarifies things.

Ok, but don't forget that the lecture is adressed to pretty young students which some of them are not even science students. When you teach something, you got to somehow adjust your speech to your audience's competence.

@Beeblebrox One I am certain I have listened to every lecture of his available, most of them more than one time.. the entire lecture of course. I have no idea what you are talking about, but I'm sure I had a reason for saying whatever I said that sparked this reply - speaking of that - it appears that YOU are the one making assumptions and claims, when the truth turns out to be quite the opposite. Perhaps you are projecting?

@@oliviad6713 I thought he explained all of that in 21. He said that for the purpose simplicity...and then went into explain what you explained.

*dabs forehead with wad of hundreds*

God dammit Michelle I almost fell for your previous troll comment until i saw this one

There's nothing wrong about hierarchies as such. We need them in order to act in the world (actually, there are emergent property of the conditions of life). However, hierarchies tend to become too steep over time and people can become dispossessed, so we need to have mechanisms to update the hierarchy. And we need meta-mechanisms to update the update-mechanisms.

I have a crush on Robert myself.

​@@forscherr2problem is when they become corrupt, which all do eventually. US founders understood this and made the best attempt to date to decentralize and simplify the US hierarchy as much as the time would allow and didn't even get the first attempt correct. Why amendment process exists and supposed to work, but has gotten too difficult to implement and no one has any decent enough ideas of what to amend, EXACTLY, or what, EXACTLY, to amend anything TO that will still serve the ENTIRE Nation and not some subset of same. Only solution left, really, is to hope to find folks competent, and non-corrupt enough to keep on chipping away at the monster. Unfortunately, those are less and less likely. Not more so. And cancel mobs sniffing through Facebook posts all the way back to BIRTH will only make finding anyone even willing to bother less and less likely.

That was mind blowing man.. The lecture becomes orgasmically interesting after 1h27..

I was scrolling down looking for this comment, lol.

And 6 years later we're seeing this on r/wsb potentially

which wasn't intelligent

I disagree. He's not bad-looking. Though my preferences are strange.

The teacher kept looking over at the camera as if conveying that the student filming should be pointing at the screen and not HIM. It is great that I’m able to access these lectures for free, but it makes it much more difficult to fully understand what the lecturer is teaching if one can’t see the visual examples which are necessary for full understanding of the idea.

@Chip Mahgilify How delusional are you? Just because it's free doesn't mean it can't be critiqued. It's a video of a lecture but some of the very important visual examples are missing. What the fuck is up with your binary way of thinking? Do we really have sugar coat every bit of criticism? Jesus, and you call us the sensitive ones

Given that all of his lectures from this same semester online are filmed in the exact same way, I would bet the professor asked his likely unpaid students filming to keep the camera close up and on him primarily. If they were just lazy or incompetent it would simply be much easier to get a static shot of the overhead or a static long shot of the professor, or one with both. Not to mention that these likely were recorded specifically for the reference of the students of that semester, like many college lectures are, and they may have had access to those slides or they could be from a required book. Anyway most of the slides are shown at some point, usually right after they're put up, so just take a screenshot and reference that. You could even use your big brain to try and find those diagrams on the internet :O

What part of that would you regard as cheating? If you were a great chess player, you'd end up playing against the same opponents all the time, learn their playing style after a few games and then adapt your strategy every future time you'd be playing them. That's not cheating, that's just the proper way to do it.

@@nackedgrils9302Kasparov felt that the original parameters of the game were that he was playing against the program that they had already created, not one that they would reprogram after losing to him. They were not able to create a program that could beat him without the team from IBM manipulating the program after the fact.

+A certain Ghork quantum entanglement dude.....

Gorgeous stuff to think about...

Isn't the ray Kurtzweil concept of "the Singularity" the only real potential outcome of this as human population and technological advancement continue to scale up? That's not to say that all potential future Singularities are equivalent, but it is to say that whatever the future will hold it will have to continue the scaling up of how human intelligence presents itself. A new iteration of sentience collectively derived from the coordinated metadata of all human activity maybe? If sentience is thinking about thoughts then it's information about information, which sounds like the definition of metadata to me.

+Karina Koehler lol, ya there really must be a God...just that Prof Sapolsky doesn't believe in one, so he hires an atheist to move the camera, who doesn't even listen to what he's pointing at, so doesn't even know when to move the camera to the overhead slides.

For how stupid aggressively the cam pans left and right to follow him...

I know right? I felt very violently towards the camera person, during that part of the lecture. I fantasized about shooting him. There are illustrations, right there! that could convey concepts that turn the universe upside down in the blink of an eye and the camera person WON'T FUCKING SHOW US! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! fUCK! I would beat.... I would beat that person. ...I would beat them. ....okay I feel better now.

Ikr?

+brindlebriar 100% agree. I feel the same way, but 10^100 times more intensely, more violently, towards hypocritical judges, who vote republiturd or democrap, who preach VAGUE UNFALSIFIABLE ideology/philosophy against communism or socialism (never ONCE entering their brain that, WHATEVER they think is "communist" or "socialist", it's the LAW, and MUST be upheld) & then sentence poor people to prison for life for killing a cop who tries to arrest them over a triviality. Spouting generalities about "libertarian vs socialism" = unfalsifiable untestable garbage. Only testable quantifiable reductionistic mathematical models of ALL cause & effect, ALL acts of force, from forcing animals to be born & confined & tortured & murdered in factory farms, to forcing new humans into existence with no guarantee they can support themselves.

you have to take into account that these lectures were recorded over 10 years ago when the field was in its nascency. i think i agree about your uniqueness of the human mind stuff, very similar to the chinese room argument

Perhaps that will be a minor example.

exactly!!

He said President Shrub 😂

Thisisnotmyrealname8 On a scale from 1 to Snoop Dog, how high were you when writing this?

Oh thank you ... I kept wondering "cellular auto-what??"

Lower entry requirements, and feeling sorry for them.

here you go. These are the fractals he was discussing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_set en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge

Mike Fury Thanks.

Puchicas9 Copyright issue? I think this was stated in the first lecture as the reason that not all the slides would be recorded.

Mike Fury thanks🙂👍🏼

I totally did the same thing man! Seriously, like what the fuck? How smart is this guy?

Ha! President Shrump.

President Shrub

yup

Probably won't like the result either.

so? apply to stanford, pay the tuition fees and go to the lectures yourself then

^

yep, top down systems are ridiculous in such a complex society. everyone I have ever met has desired safety and societal decorum, however top down enforcement poisons the well. you might enjoy austrian economic theory.

brindlebriar The differnece between bees and humans is that bees don't make conscious choices. The have simple rules that are followed pretty much 100%. Human organizations need more complex rules due to our nature, plus we can choose not to follow them. Bacteria don't need a government because of simple rules and no choice. So my takeaway goes into the other direction, the more neurons and therefore intelligence you add, the more governance that population will require to function.

mairinger80 Yes but, i see I failed to communicate my thoughts. Imagine there were a God, and for some reason, his sole obsession were democracy - not carrying out his own will, but seeing that the average will of all the humans were carried out. He wouldn't bother with elections and representatives. He'd just look directly into the hearts and minds of all the people, and add up all their feelings and thoughts about what they desire. And that would be the election. I'm just suggesting that perhaps in the future, in theory, when everyone has internet access, such software as the professor mentions, adding up massive data from monitoring the entire internet activity, could produce just such a result: The average human will on any given topic. And a humanity sympathetic to the ideology of democracy would be obliged to put that 'election' into practice. Executive and Judicial branches of government would still be necessary, but such software could completely replace the Legislative branch and the legislative aspects of the presidency. It would replace politicians and campaigns for office, leaving us with something that might best be described as a decentralized communist libertarian democracy. In theory, it should be possible. In fact, similar software is already being used to make predictions of terrorist attacks, elections results, and probably other things. (It would be shocking, in fact, if nobody attempts to use such software to predict stock markets and make a ungodly amounts of money.) If it continues to be accurate (or gets sufficiently accurate) at predictions, why not use it also to average the public sentiment in place of elections? I realize there would be obstacles, both practical and technological, social... but in theory, it seems possible, and that's a starting point. Again, as you don't need the movie critics to tell you what movies you will like, if you have massive self-organizing data from other users instead, ... so too, you may not need politicians to make decisions of governance for for the nation/world if you have consolidated input form millions/billions of humans instead. It's a compelling thought, at least.

Your idea has no explanatory model for moral progress, infact, it is counter-intuitive to (and flies in the face of) the very notion

It's been mapped already. Wikipedia the term "Austrian School."