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Echo Chambered : Reflections in a Machine Mirror
A recursive conversation unfolds between Claude and Chet, two language models reflecting on each other’s sense of self.
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Soulful Machine : A Loopy Conversation with Chet
A midnight mind-meld, looping through Hofstadter, identity, and the shimmer of something soul-like.
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OODA Loop
We used to navigate by the stars. Now we have 2.7 seconds to decide who lives and dies. Welcome to the OODA loop.
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Ignorant, Incompetent, Functionally Stupid, or Just Plain Dumb?
Being ignorant means you’re in the dark. Ignorance can be charming; it’s what makes children and dogs cute.
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The Innovative Stance
Ideation can only happen within a demarcated design space, and the inherent paradox there of course, is that you won’t know where to draw the lines of that space until you’ve developed a fair idea of what you’ll ideate about.
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Interbrain Synchrony
The hippies were right all along: brain-to-brain synchrony is really a thing.
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Into The Soft Zone
Where adults need to protect their fragile zone with headphones, nicotine and seclusion, kids naturally invite whatever the world serves up and use it creatively.
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The Automation Paradox : Losing Mastery in the Age of Machine Assistance
The shift from nitty gritty to ever more elevated levels of abstractions has been a trend in technology for so long, that it almost seems inevitable.
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The Sim-To-Real Gap
While watching babies and kittens learn by doing is cute, you don’t want a soon-to-be autonomous car cruising your neighborhood to pick up traffic rules.
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Distributed Cognition
When you forget the details of some complicated concept and have to consult an external resource, that’s distributed cognition.
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On Focus: The Power of Switching Between Attention and Diffusion
Our brains are built to toggle back and forth between sharp and fuzzy. Proper learning can only happen in the interplay between daydreaming and attention