I had planned on another political blog post, but this came out instead. It's about a tree I know and some dreams I had and their message. And it's not not political.
dreams
Recently, I’ve had this recurring dream where I’m having a lunch time stroll with people from work and we are all dressed up in fancy lemming costumes. While we’re walking along a mountain top, I suddenly realise we are way too close to the cliff edge, so I scream out but everyone ignores me and they continue arguing about who they think is the best looking lemming. Just as they start falling off the cliff, I wake up, relieved by my conviction that dreams aren’t real.
Edited 58d ago
> The neuroscientist Erik Hoel has proposed the intriguing theory that we evolved the capacity to #dreams in order to stop ourselves from becoming too narrowly focused on our daily experience, which he specifically likens to overfitting in AI.
https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/5-ai-failure-modes-shared-by-humans
Edited 30d ago