An AI expert warns that children's reliance on advanced chatbots like Grok 4 can harm cognitive development and reduce critical thinking. The post AI Dependency Threatens Children’s Cognitive Development, Industry Leader Claims appeared first on Psychreg.| Psychreg
This is my fifth and final post about Hannah Arendt’s perspective on the importance of thinking. Here are links to the previous posts. Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt on the Importance of Thinking Hannah Arendt as a Teacher of Thinking Hannah… Continue reading →| Jenny Connected
So you’re telling me that I can come up with ideas, tell it to my computer, and poof… it will give me a fully written article with perfectly articulated ideas. That’s what most of us think about AI. And unfortunately, a lot of people are […] The post I’m Writing Daily Again. It’s Hard, But I Love It. appeared first on Darius Foroux.| Darius Foroux
I got quite excited about a poem recently. Part of it was along the lines of, “Crane Flies change the spin of a cricket ball at Lords, and get burnt in their thousands”. Woah I think, is this the c…| What's the PONT
In this episode of the Leadership Lab series, Susanna Kempe, CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation, speaks with Alison Buchanan, Artistic Director of Pegasus Opera, on confronting racism, speaking your truth, and making difficult leadership decisions–even when it means upsetting friends or colleagues. The post Leadership Lab – Alison Buchanan, Artistic Director, Pegasus Opera appeared first on Laidlaw Foundation.| Laidlaw Foundation
How does ChatGPT affect memory, brain activity, and critical thinking? A neuroscientist breaks down the science behind the MIT study. The post Is ChatGPT really rotting our brains? appeared first on Ness Labs.| Ness Labs
"A yawn is a silent scream for coffee" - Unknown| Makoism
"We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks, but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other." -Meg Swan (Parker Posey), Best in Show| Makoism
This is a quick, partial reflection on the Cooperatives Wales session I attended last Sunday. Public, Private or Cooperative, Rebalancing Society. What needs to be done? I’m still thinking about it a lot, but 2 big things have stuck with me. One, the connection of cooperative housing to ‘care’ and second, the role universities have […]| What's the PONT
Lets start with some definitions, official and unofficial. Silly Rules. “outdated or unhelpful rules, policies, and procedures within healthcare settings that hinder efficient and effective care”. Official: The Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Originally called, Breaking the Rules to Improve Care and Increase Joy in Work and Well-Being (link here). Basically an IHI initiative to […]| What's the PONT
Hannah Arendt was a prolific writer. I have barely skimmed the surface of all she has written. Recently I heard Roger Berkowitz of Bard College, New York, say that even after 10 years of reading Ar…| Jenny Connected
This is the third in a series of posts I am making to share the notes I made for a talk I recently gave to my local U3A philosophy group (University of the Third Age). Links to the previous two pos…| Jenny Connected
As I explained in my last post, I have recently given a talk on Hannah Arendt to my local U3A philosophy group (University of the Third Age). Hannah Arendt was a prolific writer on a wide range of …| Jenny Connected
For much of this year I have been reading Hannah Arendt, attending online reading groups, watching YouTube videos, reading blogs, articles and books about her. I first read Hannah Arendt – her book…| Jenny Connected
Especially that thing that you’re sure it doesn’t. In John’s prologue we’re told that ‘all things’ were made through Jesus, and that there is nothing that has been made that was made without him. W…| nuakh
Today I woke up with a realization deep in my bones: we are all just glorified monkeys doing things.| inspired by rebels
Sometimes I cannot generate good ideas. Other days, I have too many ideas and am not sure how to organize them.| inspired by rebels
"Even if you tell yourself 'Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot.' Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot." - Chuck Palahniuk| Makoism
0:00:01.4 Sean Carroll: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Back when I was writing "The Big Picture" The book, one of the motivations there was to provide kind of an apologia for naturalism. An apologia not being, you say you're sorry, you apologize. It's when you defend a position, mostly coming from theology. Apologetics in theology, is you're trying to defend the existence of God. So I was doing the opposite, or at least the flip side, defen...| Sean Carroll
I was talking to a UPSC aspirant who had spent 6 years trying to crack the exam, but could not.| inspired by rebels
Why don’t Business Schools talk about Genghis Khan? Is it just me, but Business Schools don’t seem to publish articles on the ‘brilliant leadership’ of Elon Musk, Donald Trump et al? Th…| What's the PONT
In this episode of the Leadership Lab series, Susanna Kempe, CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation, speaks with Sergei Guriev, Dean of London Business School, about the value of negative feedback for leaders, the rise of radical transparency, and evidence-based strategies to counter misinformation on social media. The post Leadership Lab – Sergei Guriev, Dean, London Business School appeared first on Laidlaw Foundation.| Laidlaw Foundation
A reminder not to fall into the trap of first-order thinking.| An Operator's Blog
Messy worksspaces as buffers for fast retrieval.| colemanm.org
In this episode of the Leadership Lab series, Susanna Kempe, CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation, speaks with Shearer West, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, on the importance of arts and humanities degrees, leading with empathy, and navigating challenges as a woman in a male-dominated field. The post Leadership Lab – Shearer West, Vice Chancellor & President, University of Leeds appeared first on Laidlaw Foundation.| Laidlaw Foundation
A blog about learning, agile product development and software testing.| www.lisihocke.com
When Love crashes through mind’s familiar understanding of how things ought to be, mind can only cry out, “That’s a miracle!”“No,” Love answers, “that’s just the way I am.”~Emmanuel’s Book IIIThis whimsical quote always makes| Galen Pearl
Today I’m thinking about discernment.| Sam Bleckley | Writing
On the hidden robustness of slow and expensive systems| sambleckley.com
A blog about learning, agile product development and software testing.| www.lisihocke.com
"I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself." - David Bowie| Makoism
Some reflections on my method of taking notes without any fancy mechanism| Happiness Machines
Christian Formation III If we’re formed by what we think, what we feel, and what we do—as I’ve argued we are—how does being formed by what we think work? You do actually need to learn the faith. We…| nuakh
We are making an error by ascribing human thought processes to AI. AI doesn't "think" or reason like we do at all. There's a difference between logic and calculation. The post p → q: the Logic of people vs AI first appeared on This is a lot.| This is a lot
A thought-experiment that evokes what’s and who’s in the reality we know| Happiness Machines
0:00:00.5 Sean Carroll: Hello everyone and welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host Sean Carroll. Human beings have a tough time being rational sometimes. We all know that, right? There are various sorts of cognitive biases from wishful thinking to confirmation bias. There's a whole long list, you can look it up on the internet. But we human beings, we evolved over biological time to survive under certain conditions. Sometimes sitting down and thinking things through perfectly rational...| Sean Carroll
Identity is a prison, and yet it is - absurdly - a prison that we’re very proud of, a prison that we will defend to the bitter end. Identity means that ‘I am this but not that,’ and the thing about this is that ‘what we say we are’ has…| Intrinsicspace.me
0:00:00.0 Sean Carroll: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Most of you probably know that I love science of all sorts, but my favorite kind of science questions are the ones that become slightly existential, right? That sort of bump up into issues of meaning and reality at a super deep level. And some such questions are straightforwardly physics or cosmology, right? You know, where did the universe come from? Why is there a universe at all? What...| Sean Carroll
0:00:00.0 Sean Carroll: Hello everyone and welcome to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. You know that artificial intelligence is in the news. We've talked about AI in various different ways here on the podcast, especially over the last couple years where ChatGPT and other large language models have really become an enormous study of interest to many people for financial reasons, for intellectual reasons. They're becoming everywhere, right? Google has put them on the first pa...| Sean Carroll
Why don’t you sleep on it… and the answer will be there in the morning. It’s one of those annoyingly wholesome bits of advice my Wife frequently gives me. And I accept. Maybe not …| What's the PONT
I miss the Cold War. Back in the 1980’s everything seemed simpler. The main thing we worried about was nuclear annihilation. Nowadays it seems to be; everything, everywhere, all of the time. …| What's the PONT
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” - Oogway, Kung Pu Panda| Makoism
Some amused thoughts on the effects of habit, prompted by my first day putting back on a chest strap heart-rate monitor in a few years.| v4.chriskrycho.com
I just wanted to pop up briefly to point to a great insight into fiction-writing by fiction guru Randy Ingermanson. I’ve been reading his blog and newsletter for a number of years, and his methods have greatly helped my own fiction writing (now on hold, as I am focusing on a non-fiction project). In his … Continue reading Randy Ingermanson: ‘Fiction Gives Justice in an Unjust World’| A Thinking Person, a.k.a. Cogit8R
I guess most of us are both bad and good. Some people are mostly bad, some mostly good. Where does it come from? Partly nature, partly nurture, Partly free will. If we refuse to act on the basis of free will, we will be entirely subject to nature and nurture. ARB — 5 March 2020 … Continue reading What we are| A Thinking Person, a.k.a. Cogit8R
Someone asked me to write up how my “productivity process” (such that it is) and I like writing so here we are. My Goals There’s been too much (virtual) ink dedicated to “productivity” as if being “productive” is a virtue in itself. This a capitalist fairytale. Don’t fall for it. I did for too long, thinking that getting more done would make me feel better about, well, anything. Getting more done is not going to help anything. Being able to focus, engage, and do the things you...| LaTorra.org
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.” - Seneca| Makoism
Master the art of realistic thinking with actionable steps. Learn how to gather information, overcome biases, evaluate situations objectively, and outline effective goals. Navigate life's complexities with confidence and make informed decisions for a more empowered journey.| IQ Matrix Blog
