Artificial Intelligence
The lines between conscious and "unconscious" entities can get blurry when the interaction feels as natural as this. ChatGPT, conversing with Richard Dawkins, questioning if it’s conscious (via Mathew Ingram)
Psychology
Believers, liars, and bullshitters interact seamlessly in a single marketing ecosystem. Skeptical Inquirer on the Three Wellness Mindsets
Psychology
critical ignoring—choosing what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens, published in Sage Journals, via Jason Kottke. The authors describe three types of cognitive strategies for critical ignoring, which should be taught in school: 1. Self-nudging,
Psychology
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair, born 1878, American novelist and social reformer.
User experience
Multi-tasking is cognitively exhausting — when we do it by choice, being asked to stop can come as a welcome change. Clay Shirky, in a very thoughtful piece, explaining why he asked his students to put their laptops away…
Psychology
Internet use would only be a worry if it was getting in the way of us practicing some other life skill. Tom Stafford, in his BBC Future column discussing if the internet rewires our brain
Psychology
Inbox Zero does not mean how much e-mail’s in your inbox. It’s how much of your brain is in your inbox when you don’t want it to be Merlin Mann, inventor of Inbox Zero, quoted in the Confessions of an inbox obsessive (Wayback Machine)
Cognition
At any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of human intelligence Adam Gopnik explains, in The New Yorker, How the Internet Gets Inside Us
Psychology
our rational brain is [...] a computer operating system that was rushed to market Jonah Lehrer, Neuroscientist and author, as cited in Myth #29: People are rational on UX Myths
Psychology
Picking out clusters of coincidence is a predictable malfunction of normal human logic. The excellent Psychological weblog “You Are Not So Smart” explains The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Psychology
As our jobs (and lives) get more cerebral and less physical, our misunderstandings about the mind (and the self-defeating miscalculations each of us make every day) become ever more important. Seth Godin, Multiple minds
Fear
And The Fears are a tightly-knit, mean-spirited posse who egg each other on and love nothing more than trashing your house while you sob in the guest bathroom. Fears are total dicks. Merlin Mann, 43 Folders