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After a string of flirtatious conversations came to nothing, Vogue’s dating columnist Annie Lord is beginning to wonder whether men prefer the idea of sex over actually having it. https://t.co/Anq8hbU649
British Voguex.comwhat do you have “unreasonably”high standards for?
The growth of the economy is contingent on our dissatisfaction—because our dissatisfaction leads to consumption.
Leaving the Cult of Never Enough
Themes and Tools — Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit
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Pretty much every marketing tactic is built around treating people as a means to some end (making money). In fact, Kant struggled much of his life with the ethical implications of capitalism and wealth inequality. He believed that it was impossible for anyone to amass a fortune without some degree of manipulation or coercion along the way.
... See moremarkmanson.net • The One Rule for Life
A very common trope is to treat LLMs as if they were intelligent agents going out in the world and doing things. That’s just a category mistake. A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
Steven Johnson • Revenge of the Humanities
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of growing up to satisfy user needs in a way that meets business goals for transformative outcomes
Chappell Ellisonx.comMetaphor originates from the Greek word meta meaning ‘across’ and pherein meaning ‘to carry’. Metaphor allows us to bring forth or carry over a deeper context which words on face-value can lack.