The Brains of Ultra-Powerful People Experience an Altered State of Reality, Research Suggests

The neuroscience shows that people in powerful positions have reduced activity in the circuitry responsible for empathy, and itโ€™s likely a learned response.

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โ€œIn practice, however, people living under such systems are discovering that #hierarchical #societies are far less appealing than advertised. #Right-wing voters underestimated how often ordinary #citizens depend on #liberal #rights and #institutions for #protectionโ€

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fly51fly (@fly51fly)

Are Your Reasoning Models Reasoning or Guessing? ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์ด arXiv์— ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Z. Ren, Z. Liu(Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute) ๊ณต๋™ ์ €์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์ธต์ (hierarchical) ์ถ”๋ก  ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„์ (mechanistic) ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด '์‹ค์ œ ์ถ”๋ก  ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ์—ฌ๋ถ€'์™€ '์ถ”์ธก์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ํ–‰๋™'์„ ์ง„๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋ธ ํ–‰๋™ ํ•ด์„๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ณ„ ์ง€์ ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

https://x.com/fly51fly/status/2012281348820713785

#reasoning #mechanistic #hierarchical #arxiv

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[LG] Are Your Reasoning Models Reasoning or Guessing? A Mechanistic Analysis of Hierarchical Reasoning Models Z Ren, Z Liu [Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute] (2026) https://t.co/Jcj4kQY2ZX

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Can we stop seeing #MutualAid as #transactional please? #Reciprocal yes, transactional no. And we must allow that #reciprocity isn't always direct. Otherwise, are we not simply uplifting #capitalist paradigms of #hierarchical value?

I keep seeing trends wherein those in pain, grieving or ill get dropped.

I know that I haven't uplifted as much, while ill and grieving and in many ways never have enough, but my loved ones are in danger and they need uplifted. Please!!

Wow! He is saying that to solve #capitalism s problem you need what the #cooperative movement has been doing: changing from #hierarchical decision making to #democratic decision making!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2lrQIry2zsU&si=OlNk_v_ecBbfTCZL

Richard Wolff: "Trump Is In FAR Deeper Trouble Than I Anticipated"

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[Thread] So, the book #LimitsToGrowth is back in the news after the projections were updated. I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking about this topic (the preface of the book 1177BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed being the impetus).

My conclusion is that only #Degrowth and implementation of a lot of #SolarPunkSunday ideas (repairing stuff, building community, rewilding) will help us adapt to the coming changes. That's why I started SPS -- to highlight events, ideas and to build connections.

Yes, I am known for "Doomposting," but like with most things, I try and find solutions as well. Yeah, all the #Fascist BS isn't helping -- in fact, it's a symptom of the desperation of the elites to hold onto their #Capitalistic, #Colonial, #hierarchical ways. And, well, we all know where that leads.

We may not be able to fix the climate or all the other things that are going wrong right away, but we can try to adapt, and make sure by doing so, we aren't making the problems worse for all the beings that live here on planet Earth.

I'll be posting some quotes in this thread -- some with commentary, some just by themselves. Do humans have all the answers? Not sure (I know I don't)... But sticking our collective heads in the sand is NOT an option!

#ClimateChange #Adaptation #Collapse #Change #TheLimitsToGrowth #PlanetaryBoundaries

This article @SabiLewSounds posted talks a lot about the origins #mentalhealth treatments

Things that remain centerstage today in the #marginalization of so many

There's a long history of #segregation and #uglylaws, on and on, to keep those who don't conform with expected norms from having an affect on lulled masses

#fascist #hierarchical #capitalist #elitism is present in systems that are not, nor ever were, built to help the #marginalized

They created the very disparity seen still today

โ€œFascist #politics feeds off the sense of aggrieved #victimization caused by loss of #hierarchical status. #Empires are particularly susceptible to #fascist politics because of this sense of loss.โ€ - #JasonStanley, How #Fascism Works: The #Politics of Us and Them
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'An Axiomatic Definition of Hierarchical Clustering', by Ery Arias-Castro, Elizabeth Coda.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v26/24-1052.html

#cluster #clustering #hierarchical

An Axiomatic Definition of Hierarchical Clustering