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Generative, Personal, but not Artificial
Unpacking Apple’s language obsession around machine intelligence
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Intellectual Nutrition Labels for Generative AI Products
If a generative AI had a nutrition label that said "100 brain calories per ChatGPT response", would that change how you use it? Nutrition could serve as a metaphor to understand why taking a tempered approach with generative AI might be important for our intellectual health. For starters,
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Simplicity's Double-Edged Sword in the Information Age
The Challenges of Oversimplification in Modern Education and Technology
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Embracing the AI Mindshift: From Google to ChatGPT
Exploring the evolution of information access, decision-making, and society's acceptance of more authoritative answers
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Positive negatives
Discovering content in the modern world is strangely beautiful and terrible
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Sharing on social media sucks because we do it too much
I had a chilling thought yesterday about the effects of excessive exposure to everyone's thoughts online: It's easy to mock the excited posts of people celebrating new jobs and enjoying a small moment of victory in an otherwise difficult life. I used to dedicate my entire
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I watched a YouTube tutorial. Now what?
The value of YouTube tutorials for gathering information cannot be overstated, but whether or not it translates to real learning is another story.
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1,001 terms for improving AI won’t get us anywhere
An overview of the competing definitions for addressing AI’s challenges
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How Netflix's rating system is hurting our documentaries
The Good, The Bad, and Nothing Else
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We need more friction in our algorithms
Companies have paid lip service to our digital wellbeing for too long. Now we need to see real change
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The internet is all porn and you might not even realize it
You may have not realized it but the 2 hours you just spent scrolling up and down Facebook was more than likely 2 hours spent looking at porn. What?! Yes. Let’s begin with some etymology. There’s a very important difference between pornography and porn. Looking at the dictionary
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How to use the Like button to make your Facebook Newsfeed suck less
If you’ve noticed that your Facebook Newsfeed is a little crappy these days, you might want to rethink your Liking strategy. If your Newsfeed is God’s gift of knowledge then please share your tips to make this guide more useful. What is the Like button, really? All interactions