Connection
Jennifer Baez and
Connection
Isn’t it wild how much power our words have?
How easily they can cast spells on people, how they have ripple effects in all directions?
And yet how often we shy away from using them, even when all they would do is bring more beauty into the world?
So what are you waiting for?
How easily they can cast spells on people, how they have ripple effects in all directions?
And yet how often we shy away from using them, even when all they would do is bring more beauty into the world?
So what are you waiting for?
Vidhika Bansal • Say nice things to people's faces 💛
Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game:
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
I think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
Heidi Priebe • Tweet
In other words, rather than trying to please humans, Scientist AI could be designed to prioritize honesty.
A Potential Path to Safer AI Development
Engaging in group activities that generate synchronicity – such as rituals, dancing or singing in choirs – alter the sense of self and increase connection with others.
What the science of happiness says about the self and others | Aeon Essays
Not only are we failing to consider other species, we are flailing in our connection with one another.
Erica Berry • ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays
Without synchrony and the deeper forms of connection that lie beyond it, we may be at greater risk for mental instability and poor physical health. With synchrony and other levels of neural interaction, humans teach and learn, forge friendships and romances, and cooperate and converse. We are driven to connect, and synchrony is one way our brains
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