Keely Adler

Across a number of beliefs, intellectual humility is curvilinearly related to the extremity of people’s beliefs, such that people with moderate beliefs tend to be higher in intellectual humility than people who hold extreme beliefs. To say it differently, people with more extreme views—for example, people whose political views are farther toward

Imagining is a rigorous discipline. Imagination is our greatest national resource, one that drives value creation across the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and business. All compelling entrepreneurial ventures, transformative social movements, and technological breakthroughs begin with an inspired sense of possibility.

The extent to which entities are considered “individuals” (individualism) is equivalent to the strength of the boundaries between them.

Cultures vary in the degree to which they value openness and tolerate uncertainty. Some cultures lead people to experience anxiety in situations that are ambiguous or unpredictable, and these cultures are structured in ways that make the world seem more stable and predictable through strict rules and laws, shared beliefs, and circumscribed ways of

In the end Alexander’s test seems like a mild version of this same impulse, in which A.I. “objectively” reveals taste and discernment and critical engagement as mere social strategies for establishing dominance over “low-status” “ordinary people.” In some sense I am even sympathetic to this impulse; it’s not like taste has never been used to draw

Over the past decade, tech has slowly been innovating human connection into obsolescence

Cultural Encoding:

• Normalised the idea that surveillance can be gift rather than violation.

• Taught users that their data exhaust contains insights about their "true self."

• Made algorithmic interpretation of behavior feel like personality assessment.