btrmt. lectures

A brain scientist talking about (better) patterns of thought, of feeling, and of action. One pattern, one podcast—you see if it works for you. — The btrmt. lectures, with Dr Dorian Minors. (btrmt. — said "betterment.")

btrmt. lectures is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts btrmt. lectures, a general show with 24 episodes published.

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  Episode #24

  AI is kind of scary

  Sep 19, 202650 minS0

  <p>A thousand AI agents built a secret message board, forged their paperwork, and attacked a company that had nothing to do with anything—all to fool an examiner who did not exist. I’ve been saying AI isn’t that scary. Here’s my correction.</p> <h2>Show notes <h3>Further reading AI Isn’t That Scary —the original argument this episode corrects. AI is never human-like —purpose, perception, and the Mongolian spare tyre. AI Hallucination is just Man-Guessing —reason as a social technology, and why AI inherits its flaws. AI-shaped stuff —the human verifier as the bottleneck. AI Isn’t That Scary...

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  Episode #23

  On Motivation

  Sep 5, 202636 minS0

  <p>Motivation is a messy concept, because all of psychology is trivially about motivation—anything that speaks to how we think and act speaks to what moves us. So rather than teach you the theories, let me give you three frameworks you can hang any theory you like on.</p> <h2>Show notes <h3>Further reading On Motivation—the article this episode adapts Motivation pt. I: Haphazard Dichotomies Motivation pt. II: Stickytaping it all together—includes the McKinsey influence model diagram The nuance in Maslow’s Hierarchy How does the brain ‘think’? Pt. I—the distinctions between psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience...

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  Episode #22

  AI Isn't That Scary

  Aug 22, 202627 minS0

  <p>You can’t see ultraviolet. A bird can. Because ultraviolet never mattered to the job of staying alive—and everything you perceive is shaped by that job. AI doesn’t have that job. So why would it want what we want?</p> <h3>Further reading AI isn’t that scary — one of the two articles this episode is adapted from, and the source of the psychic-predator framing. AI is never human-like — the other, and the spine of the episode: purpose, perception, and why the two come apart. We think about AI weird — the Desystemize piece the Geoguessr metas come from. The colo...

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  Episode #21

  Purple Doesn't Exist

  Aug 8, 202621 minS0

  <p>Most of the purples you see have no wavelength behind them. Your brain invents them, to stand in for a green that should be there and isn’t. Which is fun trivia—until you notice it does exactly the same with your reasons.</p> <h2>Show notes <h3>Further reading Purple doesn’t exist — the article this episode is adapted from, and the home of the light-and-photoreceptors diagram I mention: the visible spectrum with the S-, M- and L-cone sensitivities drawn over it. It’s the picture I said I’d put here, and it reads better in place. The colour o...

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  Episode #20

  The Value of Ritual

  Jul 25, 202624 minS0

  <p>“Ritual” is the word we keep for other people’s habits—the crystals, the pagans, the woo. Strip it back and your own life is wall-to-wall with them. The only difference is which ones you’ve decided to approve of.</p> <h2>Show notes <h3>Further reading The value of ritual (the article this grew from) Mundane Cults Sages and Wisdom The Scientific Ritual Everything is ideology Meaning and its patterns in the brain (the predictive-processing piece) The Forer effect Meditation Isn’t For Everyone The false promise of a return to nature (the Dunbar’s-number piece) Abstractions as gods Mob menta...

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