"I told him that things had become so dark and hopeless that I could no longer imagine a future; he smiled at me and softly said that it was precisely then, in the darkest times, when one could see furthest."
— Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac
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How Insecurity Begets Dysfunctional Self-Reinforcing Cycles
An insecure sense of self creates a ripple effect, emanating from within and reverberating through one's personal and professional life. But change is within reach.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
From within the silo of insecure self, security may seem not only unattainable, but also is very difficult to imagine for oneself. We may see others who appear secure, and we may experience a range of unnerving reactions, from envy and admiration to...
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There is far more good than bad in the world, even as the bad is more salient much of the time.
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Approaching maximum cuteness
#cat
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When there are two competing and mutually exclusive perspectives, the truth is somewhere in the muddle.
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Why is the world so cold and merciless? Granted there is a tremendous amount of humanity and compassion but our power structures so often shift to the sociopathic.
There's major significance that machine intelligence is entering the fray while this is happening.
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Don't confuse real therapy with fake therapy.
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Democrats have no game
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"I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object – internal and external – without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego."
Melanie Klein
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Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
Upsides of AI
"In this essay I try to sketch out what that upside might look like—what a world with powerful AI might look like if everything goes right."
darioamodei.com/machines-of-...
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I understand you can't make omelets without breaking eggs, but did you have to kill the chickens?
#satirical
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I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.
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Seeing the human being in the other person is always a choice.
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Pondering Sense of Self in a Chaotic World
What self means, and how we think about it, evolves with culture. In a complex and unstable world, do we need new ways to think about self?
There is an inherent paradox of self, irreducible, and there is no expert consensus, though there are many ardent opinions. How to proceed?
@psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #psychology #self #therapy
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You, Me & Us
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The lived moment perhaps is an envelope, a blanket enclosing the past, present, and future, akin to the cell membrane around individual cells or the skin encapsulating the body.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex...
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Time, Causality, and Computational Intelligence
Understanding how we conceptualize time out of the complex present moment opens up possibilities for greater causal impact.
Time. We use it to organize our lives, measure our experiences, and impose structure on reality. But what if time, as we conventionally understand it, doesn’t actually exist? @psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #intelligence #physics #philosophy #time #freewill #complexity
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People have different paths to health and recovery, and however they might think about it that process.
It's important to respect differences and not impose unreflectively what we've learned from our own experiences on others.
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What appears to be foresight may simply be restatement of what is obvious to one or few, long-true, but forgotten and ignored by many.
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#depression #psychiatry
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If all you have is a hermeneutical hammer, then everything looks like a narrative nail.
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Designing a Curious Machine Intelligence That Actually Thinks
An interview with Karl Friston, a computational psychiatrist and an architect of an AI developed to emulate natural intelligence using active inference, physics and fuzzy logic.
An interview with Karl Friston, a computational psychiatrist and an architect of an AI developed to emulate natural intelligence using active inference, physics and fuzzy logic. @psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #AI #machineintelligence #psychiatry #Neuroscience
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