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rdgthree

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    xAI had a lot of negotiating power here because Anthropic had ~0 comparable options and ultimately desperately needed the compute now . So, it wouldn't surprise me if data sharing …

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    Comment #46292302

    Nothing to add to this conversation in particular, but just wanted to say - truly amazing paper. Well done!

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    Comment #46266692

    Should have added one sooner! Here you go: https://1393.xyz/rss.xml

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    Comment #46266166

    I appreciate that you feel this way, but the mechanisms behind exactly which neural circuits are activated by TMS are simply not yet fully understood. From 2024: > Transcranial mag…

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    Comment #46264988

    Of course! But also: > Although the biology of why TMS works isn't completely understood, the stimulation appears to affect how the brain is working. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tes…

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    Comment #46264907

    The whole argument hinges on the idea of tuned resonance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-07988-2

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    Comment #46263210

    If you're interested in my personal chain-of-thought on the subject: This was where I started pulling this thread (October 2025): https://1393.xyz/writing/could-the-root-cause-of-a…

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    Not necessarily - I think it works like Daniel Kahneman's System 1 and System 2. Your conscious system is System 2 - when it's not working correctly, you just fall back to System 1…

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    Comment #46260611

    In cognitive psychology there's all sorts of evidence that we have two distinct processes, but I don't think anyone has really mapped it to a physical system yet. Modeling two phys…

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    Comment #46260263

    I think Daniel Kahneman's System 1 (habits, unconscious) and System 2 (learning, "error correction", conscious) are physical systems, and System 2 takes a LOT more energy to run. S…

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    Did you read it?

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    These have always felt like symptoms of the problem to me, so perhaps just downstream effects! Definitely not sure, obviously plenty of complexity to this one.

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