BrainROT, REELationships, and The DM Verse
Think of social media as making soup. Most users are stirring the pot. Some users are adding ingredients. The pot stirrers effectively keep social media …
AI Alignment should be our Prime Concern
What happens when our greatest creation outsmarts us – not maliciously, but by giving us exactly what we think we want?” A 2-tiered trust issue …
Retail Therapy Hijacked the Speed Economy
2 forces collided and imploded to become a self-sustaining consumer habit. ⚔️ The speed of everything is increasing, well at least in the consumer cosmos. …
Where does our Sense of Beauty come from?
Whoever engages with the beautiful has a good soul. Emmanuel Kant said something like that. Hegel said the art we create transcends the beauty of …
Big Changes break our Perception – blame our Words
As the world changes, we are a little blind to process those changes. We talk about changes to understand them. 2 problems – Hypocognition and …
AI has a Personality, but it doesn’t mean anything… yet
I just read this preprint[1] in which researchers have adapted a standard personality test (a version of the OCEAN Big 5 model) to assess LLMs’ …
Is AI making us smarter Or dumber?… Or artificially smarter? (AI symbiotic crisis)
I’ve been thinking about memes. 2 years ago, I called meme templates, meme phrases, and reel content outsourced cognition – borrowing others’ structured thoughts. Using …
Cognitive Biases in AI vs. Humans
Biases in AI are fundamentally different from those in humans. These differences originate because the entire mechanism that creates human biases is different from how …
Dissolving Anxiety with Socratic Questioning
I’ll explain 4 steps you need to convert anxious thoughts into positive constructive thoughts. Positive thoughts are not happy thoughts; they are useful thoughts. Anxious …
Curiosity: The Endless Pit of Discovery and Wonder
Eleanor and her archeological team were digging near the Gobekli Tepe Temple ruins in 2005. Using the most advanced earth-penetrating drills, they had managed to …
Unlock a “value system” for relationships [w/ Prompts]
We speak of “relationship values”. But something like a value is hard to explain, and yet a couple knows if their values match or not. …
Logic needs meaning, but there’s a catch (proof from apes)
I explore how humans need context and meaning for logical thinking. Without context, we aren’t able to use even the simplest of logical thoughts. And …
5 Philosophical Razors can help us Explain the Unknown
Philosophical razors are general problem-solving and decision-making strategies that help us find and choose explanations when there is limited information. Why did Ethan ignore Rajesh’s …
The ChatGPT Effect: How advanced AI changes us
The greatest cognitive skill in a post-ChatGPT world is going to be: Asking the right questions. And then, Knowing where to ask them. 💻 So, …
Symmetry Impulse: Why & How we seek symmetry
You may have heard of the zero-sum game: Someone’s loss is your gain. It’s cited as an economic concept. For every + there is a …
Basic Concepts About Concept Formation: Theory + Key Terms
How well do you know what a pizza is? Round, saucy, cheesy, comes in a box, served in triangles, right? Now do you know what …