What Does It Mean to Learn?(newyorker.com)

127 points by wallflower 2 years ago | 67 comments

When do we become adults, really?(newyorker.com)

54 points by benbreen 7 months ago | 75 comments

A Man with an Impossible Memory(newyorker.com)

52 points by DeathArrow 2 years ago | 7 comments

A Revolution in How Robots Learn(newyorker.com)

56 points by jsomers 1 year ago | 10 comments

Can we talk to whales?(newyorker.com)

153 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 142 comments

Scientists working to decode birdsong(newyorker.com)

141 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 125 comments

Engineering Sleep(minjunes.ai)

407 points by amin 1 year ago | 170 comments

Personal essay arguing sleep can be engineered to be more efficient, drawing on Familial Natural Short Sleep mutations that let people sleep less without harm.

Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds(monash.edu)

418 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 381 comments

Monash University news article reporting a study finding that each 1% yearly loss of deep sleep in people over 60 is linked to a 27% higher dementia risk.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain(news.mit.edu)

525 points by gmays 1 year ago | 254 comments

MIT News article on research showing attention lapses during sleep deprivation coincide with fluid flushing from the brain, a process normally occurring during sleep.

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

438 points by cainxinth 1 year ago | 432 comments

Article reporting on an MIT study claiming that using AI tools like ChatGPT alters brain activity and leads to cognitive decline.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.