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Sep 12

Why You Shouldn’t Value Everything in Dollars and Cents

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Money makes the world go around. …

Psychology

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Why You Shouldn’t Value Everything in Dollars and Cents
Why You Shouldn’t Value Everything in Dollars and Cents
Psychology

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Collosum

·Aug 22

The Illusion of Moral Decline

We disagree a lot on what’s right and wrong, good and bad. We disagree between individuals, cultures, and countries. And our views on these matters change over time. Actions once deemed off-limits have become admissible, and vice versa — take attitudes on same-sex marriage, slavery, drugs, assisted suicide, animal rights…

Morality

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The Illusion of Moral Decline
The Illusion of Moral Decline
Morality

6 min read


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OneZero

·Jun 20, 2022

AI Doesn’t Understand Much—But Maybe A Little

In only the last few months, we’ve seen a number of developments in artificial intelligence making headlines: OpenAI’s DALLE-2 can generate incredible images from simple text prompts. Google’s PaLM appears to reason and solve problems. DeepMind’s Gato tackles a range of tasks and could be an example of general AI. …

Artificial Intelligence

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AI Doesn’t Understand Much—But Maybe A Little
AI Doesn’t Understand Much—But Maybe A Little
Artificial Intelligence

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Ed-Tech Talks

·Apr 5, 2022

What Degree of Wrong Are You?

If you’re not right, then you’re wrong. Right? Isaac Asimov considered this in his essay ‘The Relativity of Wrong,’ which appeared in his book by the same name and the Skeptial Inquirer in 1989. The essay is a response to a letter received from an English Lit major who argued…

Knowledge

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What Degree of Wrong Are You?
What Degree of Wrong Are You?
Knowledge

3 min read


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OneZero

·Mar 21, 2022

How To Survive Automation

Where’s your place in the future of work? — Automation anxiety isn’t new. In response to Luddites breaking and destroying the technologies they feared would take their jobs, the British parliament passed the ‘Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act’ in 1812, which made such destruction punishable by death. Long before that, Aristotle considered how if all our tools could…

Artificial Intelligence

15 min read

How To Survive Automation
How To Survive Automation
Artificial Intelligence

15 min read


May 20, 2021

The Trouble With Improving Our Stereotypes

People are quick to make certain judgements. Our minds have evolved to excel at drawing conclusions from minimal data and thinking quickly using heuristics and mental models. But some judgements are more reliable than others. …

Stereotypes

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The Trouble With Improving Our Stereotypes
The Trouble With Improving Our Stereotypes
Stereotypes

6 min read


Mar 11, 2021

Gambling on the Gods

Born in France in 1623, Blaise Pascal’s intellectual prowess was evident early. He was writing about projective geometry and laying the groundwork for probability theory in his teens, and by his early twenties had built a calculating machine (the Pascaline) to help his father do his taxes. When he hit…

AI

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Gambling on the Gods
Gambling on the Gods
AI

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Dec 10, 2020

The Neuroscience of Patience

Deep inside the brain is a bundle of around 165,000 neurons, called the dorsal raphe nucleus. When prompted into action, the nucleus produces the neurotransmitter serotonin, which acts as a messenger to other areas of the brain. Two areas often in communication with the dorsal raphe nucleus sit just behind…

Neuroscience

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The Neuroscience of Patience
The Neuroscience of Patience
Neuroscience

3 min read


Nov 17, 2020

Is Technology Neutral?

Technology is all around us. It is at once so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, and in other areas so remarkable as to grab the world’s attention. From ceramic cups to nuclear weapons; from the springs in your mattress to immersive virtual worlds; from paper and pencils to intelligent…

Technology

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Is Technology Neutral?
Is Technology Neutral?
Technology

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Sep 1, 2020

Why We Leave Our Best Ideas Undiscovered

It’s always nice to have a good idea, but good ideas aren’t always easy to find. They’re often seen as something mystical, not reducible to a simple process but something that we wait and hope will burst up from the back of our mind. This might be true to an…

Creativity

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Why We Leave Our Best Ideas Undiscovered
Why We Leave Our Best Ideas Undiscovered
Creativity

3 min read

Sam Brinson

Sam Brinson

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An emergent property of billions of chaotically firing neurons. Currently thinking about thinking. http://sambrinson.com/

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