Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
Inclusivity and
In a study published by the journal Nature in July, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, University of Rochester, and Google Empathy Lab found a way to do that. The researchers used a 30-minute online training session to teach participants about a mindset that sees stress as an opportunity to learn and... See more
A Better Way to Think of Stress, According to Science
The powerful link between educating girls and fighting the climate crisis
Angela Priestleywomensagenda.com.au
The brain is continually making predictions about the causes of the sensory information it receives, and it uses that information to update its predictions. In other words, we live in a “controlled hallucination” that remains tied to reality by a dance of prediction and correction, but which is never identical to that reality.
The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
Experts have already seen and documented more than 60 smaller-scale examples of AI systems trying to do something other than what their designer wants (for example, getting the high score in a video game, not by playing fairly or learning
game skills but by hacking the scoring system).
The case for slowing down AI
Very few issues worthy of debate are black and white. That’s why we need to grapple with the gray areas of life, of which there are many. It’s always tempting to reduce issues to binary choices between right and wrong, good and evil, beneficial and destructive. But it’s ultimately self-defeating; binary thinking discourages complex reasoning while... See more
Mastering the art of arguing productively
Now, I wonder: what does gentrification look, smell, taste, feel, and sound like? What are the larger implications that accompany these sensory shifts? I want to understand with my whole body, not just with my mind, how increased development and an influx of affluence in this neighborhood shapes peoples’ everyday lived experiences of their home.
The Five Senses of Gentrification
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