J. Danielle

The right way to deal with new ideas is to treat them as a challenge to your imagination — not just to have lower standards, but to

switch polarity

entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could. That's what I do when I meet people with new ideas.

"Humans have a well-documented tendency, called automation bias, to accept an algorithm’s recommendations even if it contradicts their own expertise, he said. This bias could cause doctors to be less critical while reviewing A.I.-generated drafts, potentially allowing dangerous errors to reach patients."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/health/ai-... See more

surrounded by the detritus of dashed hopes

Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of coward­ice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.

The New Singlehood Stigma - The Atlantic