Bhaumik Patel
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Bhaumik Patel
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
A Chemical Progression
An exploration of the discovery and history of the atom, including the theories and experiments that led to its understanding in chemistry.
gregbrockman.com
Greg Brockman’s unpublished chemistry textbook. Designed around problems.
doing IFS with a partner is not about having a conversation. It’s about creating a therapeutic container.
Nick Barr • Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI -
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.
“Generative AI greatly reduces the degree to which access to expertise is an obstacle to education.”
opencontent • The Near-term Impact of Generative AI on Education, in One Sentence – improving learning
The author took its readers on a quest to quit social media, keeping their phone in the hand at all times, and ultimately deleting the most addicting app on their phone.
Maria Deac • Bored and Brilliant Summary
science of happiness: gratitude, compliments, helping others, spontaneous contacts