Mary Martin

There are some gifts, by the way, that you do not have to pay for. Gifts that come at no cost. Gifts that do not require wrapping paper. Gifts that do not contribute to climate change. Gifts that can help bring peace and harmony to the world.

Here are 3:

1. The Gift of a Smile.


2. The Gift of Listening.


3. The Gift of Gratitude.

Per this framework, main ingredient to meaningful & flourishing lives: Expand "the phenotypic bound on the amount of surprise people can tolerate in their lives," or: inhabit the goldilocks zone of uncertainty. Fun paper by @PredictiveLife & @JulianKiverste1. Few other riffs:... See more

Compassion, as well as the way it metabolizes pain, is decidedly analog.

Is it more important to reform existing social networks or to work to build new ones?

While LLMs are designed to emulate human-like responses, this does not mean that this analogy extends to the underlying cognition giving rise to those responses