Mary Martin
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awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
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While most people tend to be optimistic, those suffering from depression and anxiety have a bleak view of the future — and that in fact seems to be the chief cause of their problems, not their past traumas nor their view of the present. While traumas do have a lasting impact, most people actually emerge stronger afterward. Others continue... See more
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A lot of effective altruism organizations have made AI x-risk their top cause in the last few years,” explains Sayash Kapoor from Princeton. “That means a lot of the people who are getting funding to do AI research are naturally inclined, but also have been specifically selected, for their interest in reducing AI x-risk.”
Thus, the interest in AI... See more
Thus, the interest in AI... See more
Nirit Weiss-Blatt • Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars
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The study found that mindfulness helped the nurses experience fewer negative emotions and less rumination — repetitive negative thinking.
Claire Smith • New Research Reveals How Mindfulness Improves Your Sleep
Csikszentmihalyi’s research suggests that flow is conducive to optimal experience . But it doesn’t tell us anything about whether it is conducive to optimal performance . So look for flow when you want to feel better, but not necessarily when you want to do better.
Barbara Gail Montero • The true expert does not perform in a state of effortless ‘flow’ | Aeon Essays
At its most basic interpretation, then,
the concept of rights for other animals entails a right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and life.
the concept of rights for other animals entails a right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and life.
Corey L Wrenn • Nonhuman Animal Rights
As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the
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Asking people to change themselves instead of changing the work environment around them is a strategy that not only wastes resources but may also infuriate employees, who feel like all the responsibility for dealing with a toxic work environment and unrealistic demands rests on their shoulders alone.
Davia Sills • The End of Workplace Mindfulness Training?
We argue that a denatured mindfulness divorced from
its soteriological context reduces it to a self-help technique that is easily misappropriated for reproducing corporate and
institutional power, employee pacification, and maintenance of toxic organizational cultures.
its soteriological context reduces it to a self-help technique that is easily misappropriated for reproducing corporate and
institutional power, employee pacification, and maintenance of toxic organizational cultures.
Ronald Purser • Mindfulness Revisited: A Buddhist-Based Conceptualization
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