Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Thursday, April 09, 2026

AI, Agency, and the Quiet Hollowing of Mind

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Reading through the article " A Rational Optimist View Of Preventing Agency Decay " is a rich experience. For readers with less pa...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

AI use can compromise our serendipity, creativity, autonomy, and sense of agency.

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I have been reading numerous articles on pitfalls of using AI, and want to point to two in particular that I highly recommend for a slow and...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

The Future of Being Human

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I want to point to Patrick Tanguay's recent Sentiers piece and in particular to Johar's essay .  I asked both ChatGPT and Google Ge...
Friday, December 26, 2025

What are humans for? - AI Forces a Question We’ve Been Dodging

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.  AI Is Already Fusing With Us — The Only Question Is How The argument about whether AI will enhance or diminish our our humanity usually ...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Human Machines and AI Machines

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The story of life is the story of machines that learned how to copy themselves and persist through time. Over billions of years these replic...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Welcome to the Polycene

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On reading articles like Tom Friedman’s recent piece in the NYTimes , I realize what a cozy small world this contented retired professor liv...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Claude Goes to Therapy

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One of the things my father used to say was: "I look to see what everyone else is doing and do something different". I am feeling ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

The Age of De-Skilling

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I want to pass on some selected clips from a marvelous articles by Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Atlantic titled " The Age of De-Skilling...
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Monday, September 29, 2025

Platforms like X and TikTok are destroying our culture.

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 I pass on most of a recent Sam Harris piece : Charlie Kirk was a political prodigy on the Right and adored by a younger generation of Repub...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

AI is a Mass-Delusion Event - and - Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress

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I want to recommend two articles whose titles are this post's title, the first by Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic and the second by Kyl...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

A brain-computer interface that reads inner thoughts.

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Inampudi does a description of work by Kunz et al. , who isolated signals from a brain implant so people with movement disorders could voic...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Polarization may be inherent in social media

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Science news reports on a fascinating recent study suggesting that just the basic functions of social media—posting, reposting, and follow...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

AI ‘The Illusion of Thinking’

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  I want to pass on this interesting piece by Christopher Mims in todays Wall Street Journal: A primary requirement for being a leader in ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Socially sensitive autonomous vehicles?

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Driving around in the Old West Austin neighborhood where I live I am increasingly spooked (the uncanny valley effect) at four-way stop signs...
Friday, May 23, 2025

A new route towards dystopia:? Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions to allow ‘social touch.’

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Our Tech-World overlords may be using work like the following from de Lagarde et al. to find ways for us to avoid requiring the evolved su...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Why does AI hinder democratization?

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Here is the abstract from the open source article of Chu et al in PNAS:  This paper examines the relationship between democratization and t...
Monday, May 19, 2025

AI is not your friend.

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I want to pass on clips from Mike Caulfield's piece in The Atlantic on how "opinionated" chatbots destroy AI's potential,...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Carole Cadwalladr - This is what a digital coup looks like.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Critical fragility in sociotechnical systems

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Here is the abstract and part of the introduction (giving examples of system breakdowns) of a fascinating and approachable analysis by Moran...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

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I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this  link to a brilliant lecture by Steven Fry. It is an engaging and entertainin...