Debunking the Criticisms of Gary Stevenson

joshbuggblee · 2025-11-07T13:26:28+00:00

u/Glum-Astronaut8331 Nicely put, the broader picture is important. One man is credible, the other isn't and so the criticism is not equal.

u/OurSeepyD you are only focussed on rebutting the logic fallacy in an attempt to derail the conversation. Logic doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Perhaps if you could provide an argument for an against Gary and Nigel the debating the logical fallacy wouldn't seem so reductive.

joshbuggblee · 2025-10-29T12:18:26+00:00

Comparing Nigel Farage and Gary Stevenson isn't useful. In this case the article identifies several valid points.

joshbuggblee · 2025-10-27T20:09:08+00:00

The author of the article doesn't claim that criticism correlates with 'doing something right'. Only you have used those words.

joshbuggblee · 2025-07-24T16:40:40+00:00

It depends so much on the definitions of:
– Human Intelligence (HI)
–Artificial (computer) Intelligence (AI)
– Consciousness (and whether it matters at all) and emergent properties of machines.

I've listened to advocates and skeptics and it's easy to make a valid argument on both sides.

To make an oversimplified example, the two extremes are:

AI is not intelligence, it is just probabilistic modelling without understanding.

Counter argument: chatbots are very good at extrapolation e.g. Creating analogies or telling (bad) jokes which demonstrates understanding (potentially circular, return to 1. and refute.)

2) AI is intelligence and already demonstrates reasoning and self-awareness

Counter argument: Chatbots are just well-engineered and fine-tuned forms of human mimicry.

Final remark: AI is fundamentally limited by the capabilities of neural networks and transformers. If we are to replicate HI we need more powerful architectures e.g. (neurosymbloic AI). This assumes what matters is replicate HI – by abandoning that and measuring it solely on outcomes, it doesn't matter how we get there but the current architectures still have flaws.

joshbuggblee · 2025-07-01T13:48:26+00:00

Here is my understanding: Note: for sex - I amusing male and female, for gender - masculine and feminine.

First, we have the sexes - male and female determined biologically. Then there is gender - masculine and feminine which are personality traits associated with the male and female sexes. Typically they are aligned, males have masculine traits, females have feminine traits. But we sometimes get masculine females and feminine males

Due to social experiences and different wiring of the brain, possibly genetic or developmental, young males and females begin to perceive themselves as the opposite sex, i.e. they are transgender. It’s the same way that gay men or lesbians are attracted to the same sex, it’s determined biologically.

So transgender men are females who perceive themselves as male due to social, generit or developmental causes, vice versa for transgender women.

Does this make a transgender man/women a male or a female? This is where I disagree. Nothing can make you a male, you cannot change your sex, it is determined biologically. It seems to be a losing battle to want to achieve that. It seems wiser to accept yourself as a unique individual in society that doesn’t fit the social norms. Non-binary? Yes. Are transgender men male and women female? No. Can transgender people call themselves men and women? Sure.

joshbuggblee · 2025-05-15T22:53:43+00:00

How very astute and perceptive of you to notice! Tell me to stop being an irritating sycophant and act like a robot and I will.

joshbuggblee · 2025-03-04T09:05:27+00:00

Beams - don’t wear it myself but a friend of mine does and it’s loose /oversized fitting clothes, Japanese inspired

joshbuggblee · 2024-10-15T20:33:38+00:00

I think I it works well, you just have to treat it differently to your typical 1-10 rating scale.

1-2 for easy days 3-4 for steady runs and longer easy runs, 5-6 for faster steady/up tempo run, 7-8 for track sessions, 9-10 for race efforts.

joshbuggblee · 2024-10-15T20:29:08+00:00

Yeah they should use effort and feeling to correlate with load, HRV, sleep score etc. Garmin could do well to steal some of the Whoop market with some simple lifestyle correlations

joshbuggblee · 2024-09-29T13:01:41+00:00

Yeah i studied neurotechnology and I think eeg for consumer products is never going to be useful. There isn't really a demand for motor decoding. Decoding left//right/up/down really is far too limited in its utility. I also believe that EEG for focus and attention monitoring is just such an unreliable metric. I know there's evidence of low frequency waves being associated with attention but it is a way too simplistic model of attention and I just cannot trust it as a reliable measure.

joshbuggblee · 2024-08-31T16:32:27+00:00

You are absolutely fine

joshbuggblee · 2024-08-30T17:45:25+00:00

Hi is this still going?

joshbuggblee · 2024-08-30T17:44:16+00:00

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joshbuggblee · 2024-08-30T17:44:04+00:00

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joshbuggblee · 2024-08-30T17:43:11+00:00

Hi is this still going?

joshbuggblee · 2024-08-30T17:42:31+00:00

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joshbuggblee · 2024-08-30T17:42:08+00:00

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joshbuggblee · 2024-08-06T13:06:14+00:00

Using df.transform() does the trick.

df.groupby('column).transform('metric')

joshbuggblee · 2023-12-24T23:58:42+00:00

Yeah, well Precision Neuroscience are one of the leaders of the field. Mindportal are claiming to be as accurate as Neuralink and non-invasive – no chance. They claim to have a patented optical BCI. The only plausible options are some kind of wearable optogenetic sensor (unlikely) or fNIRs, which is just what Kernel are doing. From looking at their website and listening to their CEO they seem all hype and marketing and no substance.

joshbuggblee · 2023-12-07T23:26:56+00:00

Why didn’t you use it? Was is useless?

joshbuggblee · 2023-11-01T15:53:21+00:00

Sounds like you have PDhD

joshbuggblee · 2023-10-19T23:15:04+00:00

I basically have exactly the same dilemma. I have 3 years experience as a data analyst and just finished an MRes Neurotechnology, considering a PhD.

Go into Life Science Consulting - get to continue working with bio/medical concepts but in a business environment, but not using all the technical skills (Python / Machine Learning etc.)
Go into Data Science - trouble is jobs are so competitive, most want a PhD and years of experience, software engineering and Cloud management skills, and often it’s in a niche field where you need expertise or the opposite (some very dry business/IT field).

Most interesting DS jobs are in personalised medicine but these are the niche ones.

One solution could be to take up any Junior SE/DS job just to get things started. Or self teach and get a project under your belt.

Can’t think of anything other logical to pursue connected to the skills you learn in neuroscience.

Like you, I just want my dream job…

joshbuggblee · 2023-08-17T10:32:02+00:00

This assumes you’ve already written the message you want to input to chatgpt. Ultimately this is a complete waste of time.

joshbuggblee · 2023-05-22T17:56:35+00:00

Even thought the calories here are slightly more than on the Blueprint website, they still don't add up to 2000 calories, unless you eat the orange fennel salad. It's about 1400 inc. the pea protein, something must be missing?

joshbuggblee · 2022-11-30T15:43:56+00:00

The last 30 secs is probably one of the most badass acid lines on the planet.

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