Daniel Santos
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Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
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According to Krishnamurti, the ultimate response to super-intelligent machines is the cultivation of a genuinely intelligent mind — a mind guided by non-thought intelligence. He envisions this mind as one that isn’t rooted in memory.
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Non-Thought Intelligence in Human Cognition: Non-thought intelligence refers to cognitive processes that occur without conscious reasoning or deliberate thought. This includes skills like intuition, emotional understanding, and pattern recognition, which allow individuals to make quick decisions or solve problems based on instinct and experience. Such forms of intelligence play a crucial role in daily life, influencing how people interact with their environments and navigate social situations.
Enshittification can be thought of as the result of a lack of consequences. Whether you are tempted by greed or pressured by people who have lower ethics than you, the more it costs to compromise, the fewer compromises you'll make.
In other words, to resist enshittification, you have to impose switching costs on yourself .
That's where federation
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The most straightforward way to improve your information diet is to develop a habit for meta-awareness; to pay attention to what you're paying attention to. When you find yourself reaching unprompted for your phone, or hovering over the Twitter icon, invoke the “10-10-10 rule:” ask yourself, if I consume this info, how will I feel about it in 10... See more
Gurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
pessoas que são desafiadas simultaneamente por uma tarefa cognitiva exigente e por uma tentação muito provavelmente vão ceder à tentação.
Daniel Kahneman • Rápido E Devagar
Krishnamurti also questioned whether thought, in its inherently mechanical nature, could ever produce real intelligence. After all, if our thinking operates like a machine, can it truly be called intelligent?
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Given that the human brain is wired to learn and retain information through stories, turning your quest for progress into a story is an effective way to get noticed and be understood. The story spine will help you create and tell this story well.
Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, Bob Moesta • Use This Genius Pixar Hack to Get Your Career Back on Track
After he was fired from Apple, Steve Jobs wrote, “the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.” He soon enjoyed an intensely creative period.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
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Steve Jobs escreveu, depois de deixar a Apple, que "o peso de ser bem-sucedido foi substituído pela leveza de ser novamente um iniciante, menos certo sobre todas as coisas". Em seguida, desfrutou de um período intensamente criativo.
Common types of junk info include gossip, trivia, clickbait, hackery, marketing, churnalism, and babble. But in fact, any information that you can't use is junk info. A typical example on social media would be a photo of a freshly cooked burger, captioned with “Look what I just made!” but posted without a recipe so you can't even recreate it. Such... See more