Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
Scientists have demonstrated that, as the years go by, much of what we think we remember is false. It seems our brains can't store every detail we experience, so we recall the gist of events — enough to create a story that makes sense to us. Every time we recall a story or tell it to others, we change small bits depending on whether our audience... See more
We change our memories each time we recall them, but that doesn’t mean we’re lying
memory and Neuroscience
The implication of these studies is that this so-called “selective exposure bias” may be pushing us into more polarised positions.
This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS
In her ideal world, we’d halt work on making AI more powerful for the next five to 10 years. In the meantime, society could get used to the very powerful systems we already have, and experts could do as much safety research on them as possible until they hit diminishing returns. Then they could make AI systems slightly more powerful, wait another
... See moreThe case for slowing down AI
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Why humans are surprisingly bad at being happy
bigthink.comWe often think about relationships on a spectrum from positive to negative. But the most toxic relationships aren’t the purely negative ones. They’re the ones that are a mix of positive and negative.