Bhaumik Patel
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Bhaumik Patel
science of happiness: gratitude, compliments, helping others, spontaneous contacts
Participants in three experiments wrote gratitude letters and then predicted how surprised, happy, and awkward recipients would feel. Recipients then reported how receiving an expression of gratitude actually made them feel. Expressers significantly underestimated how surprised recipients would be about why expressers were grateful, overestimated... See more
Undervaluing Gratitude: Expressers Misunderstand the ...
IFS is grounded in the observation that the mind is naturally multiple, housing a variety of subpersonalities, or parts . We experience this multiplicity when we feel torn between conflicting desires; maybe part of us wants to pursue a challenging opportunity, but another part fears the risk, while a third part feels exhausted by the inner debate.
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Nick Barr • Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI -
The crux of IFS theory: we are composed of parts (subpersonalities).
IFS comes with a user manual. The role of the therapist is not to diagnose or to heal the client, but rather to guide them step-by-step through the relevant protocols. With a less structured modality like talk therapy, AI chatbots can only mimic therapist behavior, producing a simulacrum of empathy. With IFS, an AI-powered tool can do much of the... See more
Nick Barr • Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI -
IFS is particularly well suited for AI-powered tools given the protocol-like structure.
I don’t know.
The reason I don’t know is because I wouldn’t have thought that there would have been maps on it five years ago. But something comes along, gets really popular, people love it, get used to it, you want it on there. People are inventing things constantly and I think the art of it is balancing what’s on there and what’s not — it’s the editing function.
That right there is the recipe for genuine innovation:
Embrace uncertainty and the fact one doesn’t know the future.
Understand that people are inventing things — and not just technologies, but also use cases — constantly.
Remember that the art comes in editing after the invention, not before.
- Poor attention control
- Guilty-dysphoric
- Positive-constructive
Maria Deac • Bored and Brilliant Summary
David Krakauer, president of the Santa Fe Institute, has a useful framework for describing the tension between assistance and agency that underlies both AI and mental health. Some technologies help us think, like the abacus, or a map. They open up new ways of thinking that we develop over time. Eventually we might not need the technologies any more... See more
Nick Barr • Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI -
complementary vs competitive cognitive artifacts