Thought provoking
by evanovich · updated 18d ago
Thought provoking
You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad. — LessWrong
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Blind spots and AI.
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The universe rather resembles a soup of experience-causing material, which your mind then separates into distinct, unified objects. And even this is inappropriately projecting our own conceptions of substance onto reality.
from A brief digression into Kant’s Transcendental Idealism by From Narrow To General AI
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HOW TO (actually) CHANGE YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR
People want to change their lives. They want to change their relationships, their bodies, their income, their brokerage accounts, their statuses, their homes. It’s so easy to identify what’s wrong on the outside and blame it for the feelings on the inside. Never is this so painfully clear as when the cale
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- björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
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Children, especially highly sensitive children, can be wounded in multiple ways: by bad things happening, yes, but also by good things not happening, such as their emotional needs for attunement not being met.
from The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate
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- The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote presciently about the danger of a society of lonely individuals. She defined loneliness not as solitude—since solitude is where one can reflect on their connection to themselves and others and really prepare themselves for encountering others. She described loneliness as isolation and even alienation from others ... See more
from Hope Beyond Rugged Individualism by Tara McMullin
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- a) I’m sick of pretending that psychic stuff doesn’t exist, and, b) materialism is bullshit. This office-park-version-of-reality charade has gone on long enough.
from Psychic Shit Happens All The Time by Kristin Posehn
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Most often people believe that the “gift” is the ability itself.
from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
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