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  1. Empathy is a deeply rooted skill. We learn to sense others’ states of mind and express sympathy or disgust, acting based on what we sense in our environment and what we learn from others. #Empathy #SocialIntelligence

  2. "Each prior “intelligence explosion” was not an upgrade to individual cognitive hardware, but the emergence of a new, socially aggregated unit of cognition. Primate intelligence scaled with social group size, not habitat difficulty. Human language created what Michael Tomasello calls the “cultural ratchet”: knowledge accumulating across generations without any individual requirement to reconstruct the whole. Writing, law, and bureaucracy externalized social intelligence into infrastructure, institutions that coordinate across longer time horizons than any participant within them. A Sumerian scribe running a grain accounting system did not comprehend its macroeconomic function; the system was functionally more intelligent than he was.

    AI extends this sequence. Large language models are trained on the accumulated output of human social cognition—the cultural ratchet made computationally active, every parameter a compressed residue of communicative exchange. What migrates into silicon is not abstract reasoning but social intelligence in externalized form, encountering itself on a new substrate.

    If intelligence is inherently social, then the path to more powerful AI runs not through building a single colossal oracle but through composing richer social systems—and these systems will be hybrid. We have entered the era of human-AI centaurs: composite actors that are neither purely human nor purely machine. Centaur actors can take many forms and inhabit many different roles. Each one of us may move in and out of diverse ensembles many times a day: one human directing many AI agents; one AI serving many humans; many humans and many AIs collaborating in shifting configurations."

    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #SocialIntelligence #Centaurs #HumanInTheLoop

  3. "Each prior “intelligence explosion” was not an upgrade to individual cognitive hardware, but the emergence of a new, socially aggregated unit of cognition. Primate intelligence scaled with social group size, not habitat difficulty. Human language created what Michael Tomasello calls the “cultural ratchet”: knowledge accumulating across generations without any individual requirement to reconstruct the whole. Writing, law, and bureaucracy externalized social intelligence into infrastructure, institutions that coordinate across longer time horizons than any participant within them. A Sumerian scribe running a grain accounting system did not comprehend its macroeconomic function; the system was functionally more intelligent than he was.

    AI extends this sequence. Large language models are trained on the accumulated output of human social cognition—the cultural ratchet made computationally active, every parameter a compressed residue of communicative exchange. What migrates into silicon is not abstract reasoning but social intelligence in externalized form, encountering itself on a new substrate.

    If intelligence is inherently social, then the path to more powerful AI runs not through building a single colossal oracle but through composing richer social systems—and these systems will be hybrid. We have entered the era of human-AI centaurs: composite actors that are neither purely human nor purely machine. Centaur actors can take many forms and inhabit many different roles. Each one of us may move in and out of diverse ensembles many times a day: one human directing many AI agents; one AI serving many humans; many humans and many AIs collaborating in shifting configurations."

    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #SocialIntelligence #Centaurs #HumanInTheLoop

  4. "Each prior “intelligence explosion” was not an upgrade to individual cognitive hardware, but the emergence of a new, socially aggregated unit of cognition. Primate intelligence scaled with social group size, not habitat difficulty. Human language created what Michael Tomasello calls the “cultural ratchet”: knowledge accumulating across generations without any individual requirement to reconstruct the whole. Writing, law, and bureaucracy externalized social intelligence into infrastructure, institutions that coordinate across longer time horizons than any participant within them. A Sumerian scribe running a grain accounting system did not comprehend its macroeconomic function; the system was functionally more intelligent than he was.

    AI extends this sequence. Large language models are trained on the accumulated output of human social cognition—the cultural ratchet made computationally active, every parameter a compressed residue of communicative exchange. What migrates into silicon is not abstract reasoning but social intelligence in externalized form, encountering itself on a new substrate.

    If intelligence is inherently social, then the path to more powerful AI runs not through building a single colossal oracle but through composing richer social systems—and these systems will be hybrid. We have entered the era of human-AI centaurs: composite actors that are neither purely human nor purely machine. Centaur actors can take many forms and inhabit many different roles. Each one of us may move in and out of diverse ensembles many times a day: one human directing many AI agents; one AI serving many humans; many humans and many AIs collaborating in shifting configurations."

    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #SocialIntelligence #Centaurs #HumanInTheLoop

  5. "Each prior “intelligence explosion” was not an upgrade to individual cognitive hardware, but the emergence of a new, socially aggregated unit of cognition. Primate intelligence scaled with social group size, not habitat difficulty. Human language created what Michael Tomasello calls the “cultural ratchet”: knowledge accumulating across generations without any individual requirement to reconstruct the whole. Writing, law, and bureaucracy externalized social intelligence into infrastructure, institutions that coordinate across longer time horizons than any participant within them. A Sumerian scribe running a grain accounting system did not comprehend its macroeconomic function; the system was functionally more intelligent than he was.

    AI extends this sequence. Large language models are trained on the accumulated output of human social cognition—the cultural ratchet made computationally active, every parameter a compressed residue of communicative exchange. What migrates into silicon is not abstract reasoning but social intelligence in externalized form, encountering itself on a new substrate.

    If intelligence is inherently social, then the path to more powerful AI runs not through building a single colossal oracle but through composing richer social systems—and these systems will be hybrid. We have entered the era of human-AI centaurs: composite actors that are neither purely human nor purely machine. Centaur actors can take many forms and inhabit many different roles. Each one of us may move in and out of diverse ensembles many times a day: one human directing many AI agents; one AI serving many humans; many humans and many AIs collaborating in shifting configurations."

    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #SocialIntelligence #Centaurs #HumanInTheLoop

  6. "Each prior “intelligence explosion” was not an upgrade to individual cognitive hardware, but the emergence of a new, socially aggregated unit of cognition. Primate intelligence scaled with social group size, not habitat difficulty. Human language created what Michael Tomasello calls the “cultural ratchet”: knowledge accumulating across generations without any individual requirement to reconstruct the whole. Writing, law, and bureaucracy externalized social intelligence into infrastructure, institutions that coordinate across longer time horizons than any participant within them. A Sumerian scribe running a grain accounting system did not comprehend its macroeconomic function; the system was functionally more intelligent than he was.

    AI extends this sequence. Large language models are trained on the accumulated output of human social cognition—the cultural ratchet made computationally active, every parameter a compressed residue of communicative exchange. What migrates into silicon is not abstract reasoning but social intelligence in externalized form, encountering itself on a new substrate.

    If intelligence is inherently social, then the path to more powerful AI runs not through building a single colossal oracle but through composing richer social systems—and these systems will be hybrid. We have entered the era of human-AI centaurs: composite actors that are neither purely human nor purely machine. Centaur actors can take many forms and inhabit many different roles. Each one of us may move in and out of diverse ensembles many times a day: one human directing many AI agents; one AI serving many humans; many humans and many AIs collaborating in shifting configurations."

    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #SocialIntelligence #Centaurs #HumanInTheLoop

  7. I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):

    Content warning: Childhood trauma

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    I want to protect children.
    I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles.
    In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.
    And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.

    I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.

    That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.

    #mh #trauma #pedagogy #education #school #SaveSpace #MentalHygiene #therapy #DomesticViolence #DomesticAbuse #AbusePrevention #ViolencePrevention #EmotionalIntelligence #SocialIntelligence #empathy #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedPedagogy #SocialPedagogy #TraumaPedagogy #SozialPädagogik #TraumaPädagogik #FediLZ

  8. Afternoon (or tzag) fedifolk! 😊

    I’m very excited to be taking part in the Diversity in Social Intelligence Replication project, following up on important work by Catherine Crompton on autistic–allistic communication

    ed.ac.uk/salvesen-research/our

    (selfie, eye contact)

    #ActuallyAutistic #DoubleEmpathyProblem #SocialIntelligence #CommunicationSkills

  9. I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):

    Content warning: Childhood trauma

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    I want to protect children.
    I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles.
    In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.
    And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.

    I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.

    That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.

    #mh #trauma #pedagogy #education #school #SaveSpace #MentalHygiene #therapy #DomesticViolence #DomesticAbuse #AbusePrevention #ViolencePrevention #EmotionalIntelligence #SocialIntelligence #empathy #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedPedagogy #SocialPedagogy #TraumaPedagogy #SozialPädagogik #TraumaPädagogik #FediLZ

  10. I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):

    Content warning: Childhood trauma

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    I want to protect children.
    I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles.
    In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.
    And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.

    I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.

    That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.

    #mh #trauma #pedagogy #education #school #SaveSpace #MentalHygiene #therapy #DomesticViolence #DomesticAbuse #AbusePrevention #ViolencePrevention #EmotionalIntelligence #SocialIntelligence #empathy #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedPedagogy #SocialPedagogy #TraumaPedagogy #SozialPädagogik #TraumaPädagogik #FediLZ

  11. I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):

    Content warning: Childhood trauma

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    I want to protect children.
    I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles.
    In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.
    And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.

    I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.

    That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.

    #mh #trauma #pedagogy #education #school #SaveSpace #MentalHygiene #therapy #DomesticViolence #DomesticAbuse #AbusePrevention #ViolencePrevention #EmotionalIntelligence #SocialIntelligence #empathy #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedPedagogy #SocialPedagogy #TraumaPedagogy #SozialPädagogik #TraumaPädagogik #FediLZ

  12. I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):

    Content warning: Childhood trauma

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo

    I want to protect children.
    I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles.
    In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.
    And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.

    I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.

    That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.

    #mh #trauma #pedagogy #education #school #SaveSpace #MentalHygiene #therapy #DomesticViolence #DomesticAbuse #AbusePrevention #ViolencePrevention #EmotionalIntelligence #SocialIntelligence #empathy #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedPedagogy #SocialPedagogy #TraumaPedagogy #SozialPädagogik #TraumaPädagogik #FediLZ

  13. 📰 Prolonged Exertion of Self-Control Causes Increased Sleep-Like Frontal Brain Activity and Changes in Aggressivity and Punishment (A ✨NEW✨, free, 6-page article)

    Tags: #Feeling #SocialIntelligence #Motivation
    buddhistuniversity.net/content

  14. @mj The point of the article is that there are certain brain patterns on fMRI that appear to correlate with politics and attraction to #Authoritarian viewpoints.

    For example, “greater #Liberalism [#LeftWing thinking] was associated with increased grey matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex”. This part of the brain is associated with #Empathy. So, maybe this research proves that those on the left are more empathetic.”

    And those receptive to authoritarianism showed “signs of damage to the so-called ventro-medial prefrontal cortex. This is an area that is associated with #SocialIntelligence and #Tolerance.”

  15. "If you want to be good at what you do, you have to consider being good with people as one of the skills that's absolutely essential. Because no matter what field you're in, if you're inept in dealing with your employees, with your boss, etc., you're not gonna get very far."
    Robert Greene #socialintelligence #emotionalintelligence #leadership #motivationalquote

    This is also a perfect video response to people who excuse social ineptitude or hide behind their "smarts" when really they need to learn empathy and caring for others at work i.e. the nerds that @manlycoffee like to rant about #designbetter #beagoodhuman #personaldevelopment

    youtu.be/Pgwc-vTiRVk?si=1oIrFf

  16. 🚀 Khám phá benchmark mới cho AI: các agent thi đấu trò Werewolf (trò chơi suy luận xã hội). Thay vì chỉ đo khả năng giải toán, chúng phải lừa dối, đọc tín hiệu xã hội, tạo liên minh tạm thời và quyết định bỏ phiếu chiến lược. Đề xuất mở rộng đánh giá trí thông minh xã hội cho mô hình địa phương, so sánh với MMLU/HumanEval. Ai đã thử chạy mô hình trong môi trường đối kháng này? 🤔

    #AI #MachineLearning #SocialIntelligence #Benchmark #AIResearch #TríTuệNhânTạo #HọcMáy #ĐánhGiá #TròChơiXã hội

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  17. "If you want to be good at what you do, you have to consider being good with people as one of the skills that's absolutely essential. Because no matter what field you're in, if you're inept in dealing with your employees, with your boss, etc., you're not gonna get very far."
    Robert Greene #socialintelligence #emotionalintelligence #leadership #motivationalquote

    This is also a perfect video response to people who excuse social ineptitude or hide behind their "smarts" when really they need to learn empathy and caring for others at work i.e. the nerds that @manlycoffee like to rant about #designbetter #beagoodhuman #personaldevelopment

    youtu.be/Pgwc-vTiRVk?si=1oIrFf

  18. "If you want to be good at what you do, you have to consider being good with people as one of the skills that's absolutely essential. Because no matter what field you're in, if you're inept in dealing with your employees, with your boss, etc., you're not gonna get very far."
    Robert Greene #socialintelligence #emotionalintelligence #leadership #motivationalquote

    This is also a perfect video response to people who excuse social ineptitude or hide behind their "smarts" when really they need to learn empathy and caring for others at work i.e. the nerds that @manlycoffee like to rant about #designbetter #beagoodhuman #personaldevelopment

    youtu.be/Pgwc-vTiRVk?si=1oIrFf

  19. "If you want to be good at what you do, you have to consider being good with people as one of the skills that's absolutely essential. Because no matter what field you're in, if you're inept in dealing with your employees, with your boss, etc., you're not gonna get very far."
    Robert Greene #socialintelligence #emotionalintelligence #leadership #motivationalquote

    This is also a perfect video response to people who excuse social ineptitude or hide behind their "smarts" when really they need to learn empathy and caring for others at work i.e. the nerds that @manlycoffee like to rant about #designbetter #beagoodhuman #personaldevelopment

    youtu.be/Pgwc-vTiRVk?si=1oIrFf

  20. "If you want to be good at what you do, you have to consider being good with people as one of the skills that's absolutely essential. Because no matter what field you're in, if you're inept in dealing with your employees, with your boss, etc., you're not gonna get very far."
    Robert Greene #socialintelligence #emotionalintelligence #leadership #motivationalquote

    This is also a perfect video response to people who excuse social ineptitude or hide behind their "smarts" when really they need to learn empathy and caring for others at work i.e. the nerds that @manlycoffee like to rant about #designbetter #beagoodhuman #personaldevelopment

    youtu.be/Pgwc-vTiRVk?si=1oIrFf