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“Please don’t rush through this book. Please savor it.”
Is Your Attention Span Shrinking? - Freakonomics
AIs do not ‘think’ like humans; they search, sift and collate, but they cannot critically reflect
Why AI’s hallucinations are like the illusions of narcissism | Psyche Ideas
What makes pleasure especially tricky is that, much like belief, it necessarily represents its content as true, making its errors irresistible to immediate detection.
Plato warned that some pleasures separate us from reality | Psyche Ideas
a pleasure does not just pick out a target, it also paints this target in a positive light and represents it as something good, something important, something tied up with my cares and concerns, and conducive to my flourishing.
Plato warned that some pleasures separate us from reality | Psyche Ideas
Thus, despite cognitive dissonance making us feel like we shouldn’t engage in these activities, we justify our decision to do so to give ourselves a momentary exit, a psychological ‘soft space’ to land on following some stressor.
Guilty pleasures are more than just giving in to temptation | Psyche Ideas
Embarrassment isn’t just a feeling, it’s a social filter, shaping what we reveal and conceal to maintain our desired public image
Guilty pleasures are more than just giving in to temptation | Psyche Ideas
A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
To the surprise of literally nobody, it’s Chromium with AI slapped on top. Perplexity also has a browser: it’s called Comet, and it also is Chromium with AI slapped on top. Then we have DIA, which is, you guessed it, Chromium with AI slapped on top. I think Opera also has one of those Chromium browsers with AI slapped on top.
Manu – I write
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.
Writes and Write-Nots
If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.
File over app — Steph Ango
"It's unfortunate that politicians continue to fall prey to a kind of magical thinking that assumes you can create a backdoor that only the good guys can access."
Computers: Signal app boss threatens to withdraw from Europe | blue News
Young people like her may be teaching us that, as the use of AI becomes more common, we all need to decide what we allow it to touch, and what remains off-limits.
For young people, AI is now a second brain – should we worry? | Psyche Ideas
In that moment, I realised that she wasn’t asking AI to tell her what to do. She was asking it to help her feel more in control.
For young people, AI is now a second brain – should we worry? | Psyche Ideas
From childhood through adulthood, we are drawn into relationships not simply to be loved, but to feel that we are part of something greater than ourselves. Think of joining a football team, working in fourth spaces, playing hanging with friends, etc.
It is Valentine, and I don't have any plans.
Remember that a film’s age has nothing to do with its worth or its capacity to entertain. Like any other medium or artform, film is constantly changing, but not necessarily for the better.
How to find great films to watch | Psyche Guides
Don’t invest more than you can afford to lose,
What a disastrous investment showed me about optimism | Psyche Stories of Change
Don’t invest more than you can afford to lose
What if animals find beauty in the world, just like we do? | Psyche Ideas
No matter how good the initial intentions, I feel like web browser development and web search under control of one single company is just too much concentration of power over the access to information to be a good thing.
Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome - Lemmy.World
You pay for these services – your social media apps, your games, your work tools, your browser platform, your fitness apps, education, shopping, finance, podcast, video apps – in exchange for your personal information.
Your apps are not free
Today, we are comfortable describing these animals as having self-awareness, complex emotions, language-like communication, and even culture, but we hesitate to say they have a sense of beauty.
What if animals find beauty in the world, just like we do? | Psyche Ideas
The same publications that use “disruptive AI” unironically are the ones that need to Google “what is a neural network” every time they write about machine learning.
We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower | Elektor Magazine
Sometimes, the most sophisticated response is simply to say: "I see what you're doing there, and I may not agree with all of it – but it's damn smart."
The great manipulation
If people weren't guided by reason but by subconscious desires and emotional triggers, then shaping public opinion wasn't about facts or logic, but about tapping into those hidden feelings of their emotions.
The great manipulation
The biggest and probably most knowledgeable content creator on the planet has one philosophy - if you want people to watch, push things to the extreme. And this rule doesn’t just govern YouTube videos. It governs everything we do online.
The Internet is for Extremism - by Jeremiah Johnson
Every great product is defined not by what it includes, but by what it has the courage to exclude.
Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268
The hardest thing is knowing what to say NO to.
Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268
It's so much that at this point most companies are shipping half baked features, just to keep up with everyone else, because if you're not shipping something new everyday, are you even alive?
Death by a Thousand Buttons — from the Desk of van Schneider — Edition №268
So I can’t answer specifically the question, “what happens after Mars?” I just know we’re going to know a lot more between now and then. And our discoveries and our exploration are going to continue.
Why Not Mars (Idle Words)
Yes, it is possible for microorganisms to survive the journey from Earth to Mars. That’s why we have a program specifically dedicated to ensuring the spacecraft is as clean as possible before leaving Earth—if we ever detect life on Mars, we are certain that it did not come from our own planet.
Could Microbes Survive a Trip to Mars? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 1 - NASA
If buying a game is not a purchase, then pirating them is not theft.
Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft
The reason Web 2.0 platforms made a nearly universal shift toward algorithmic feeds throughout the 2010s is because they can give you a virtually infinite amount of content from across the entire platform.
Setting Expectations | Unplatform
"I have to be really careful of all these people. Every one of them is someone's child!"
Having Kids