Author: John
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Is bad stronger than good? Grabs more attention! We have a negativity bias. No, it’s not a personal thing. It’s an evolutionary thing (spotting threats). Our survival has depended on it. But now, with social media – an attention age on a global stage, it’s crushing us. The ingrained asymmetry (in attention) between alertness or…
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a contemporary homage to Simon & Garfunkel‘s song The Dangling Conversation Intro Perhaps our contemporary attention age with its two-edged ‘sword’ of AI is yet another ‘messy middle’ that poses a riddle of agency and trust. The “Riddle of Glass.” we’ve lost that analog feeling (bled through the glass) it’s an everyday local scenea heart…
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Human welfare needs help … How do we stay grounded (“natural”) in a landscape littered with un-, sub-, semi- and super-natural agency: humans aspiring to magi, magi aspiring to AIs, AIs aspiring to humanity. It’s a journey, not a destination … not a quest for haven or heaven …