Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to... See more
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
Although play is natural for children, opportunities to play in a school setting, and even outside of it, can be minimal and uneven and many obstacles stand in the way of increasing and improving play time.
The benefits of play are immense across all ages, research shows
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
Taking the demand imperative one step further, it’s beneficial for leaders to actively seek out the views of vocal naysayers , who can turn into influential champions just by being part of the conversation.
Into all problem-solving, a little dissent must fall
Even if content moderation were implemented perfectly, it would still miss a whole host of issues that are often portrayed as moderation problems but really are not. To address those non-speech issues, we need a new strategy: treat social media companies as potential polluters of the social fabric, and directly measure and mitigate the effects... See more
Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem
Although frenemies are the people who hurt us the most, we’re much slower to drop them than enemies.
Adam Grant • Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic
The powerful link between educating girls and fighting the climate crisis
Angela Priestleywomensagenda.com.au
It’s time to acknowledge that we can’t “use our head” to store everything we need to know, and outsource the job of remembering to technology.