Jodi Boe
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Jodi Boe
Analyzing our culture's pathological impatience with learning and the critical need for contemplation and time to claim true knowledge.
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And yet you present this discovery to people that we wanted to know more about big ideas, that we want our brains to be stretched.
As a culture, you're right, we seem somehow bored with thinking. We want to instantly know. Right, right. I mean, you know, there's this epidemic of listicles. Why think about what constitutes a great work of art when
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When they examined how the participants used the chatbot, the team also discovered that the majority of them rarely asked ChatGPT more than one question per problem — with no further probing or double checking. According to Welsch, this is an example of what psychiatrists call cognitive offloading, a well documented trend in AI in which users outsource all their thinking to an AI tool.
“We looked at whether they truly reflected with the AI system and found that people just thought the AI would solve things for them,” Welsch said. “Usually there was just one single interaction to get the results, which means that users blindly trusted the system.”
Where to find media to consume instead of doomscrolling
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“Whether we like it or not, culture exists somewhere between the internet and reality, and to participate in that culture we have to be somewhere in that mix.”
Besides this, it proved that the harrows and all the agricultural implements which he had ordered to be examined and mended in winter, for which purpose three carpenters had been specially engaged, had not been seen to, and that the harrows were now being mended when it was time to start harrowing.
Same as with combines sent for winter servicing that aren’t done by harvest. Nothing has changed 150 years later.
‘…Now that years have passed, when I remember it, I am surprised that it could have grieved me so much. So it will be with this grief. Time will pass, and I shall become indifferent.’ Levin
There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities which have enabled him to succeed, and with aching hearts seek only the good in him.
[…] Human beings have organized their lives in such a way that some never work, while forcing others to work for them. Consequently they become bored because they don’t know what to do, and they think up all kinds of stupid and repellent activities to keep themselves occupied, whereas the others work night and day, and suffer because they have to
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