Tag: Psychology
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A Life With No Privacy – Is it Bad or Different
A life with no privacy sounds terrifying. The question is: why? Is that because it is so significantly different from how we live now or that it is actually bad? What does no privacy mean? Our ‘private information’ right now is primarily stored on the internet. We have a false sense of privacy since it…
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How to Be a Good Salesperson – Stop Trying
Do you want to be a good salesperson? Good news it’s not that hard. Bad news, you’re probably doing it wrong. I’ll start with the common techniques folks use and why they work (because they do), then I’ll explain why that is the wrong approach. A few tricks to become a good salesperson Understand the…
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Food is a dangerous drug – You just don’t see it that way
Food is a dangerous drug. But there is nothing plain or simple about that statement. I strongly believe that the food is the most commonly accepted drug in America. The Disguise of Need Obviously, we all need food. That is what makes it so easy to accept. However there are two parts of food: Like…
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Treating Strangers Like Friends You Don’t Know Yet: One Simple Habit
There’s a version of the world where you walk into a restaurant, spot someone across the room wearing the coolest shirt you’ve ever seen, and you just say so. Where you ask a stranger what they ordered because it looks amazing and whether you can try a bite in exchange for a sample of your…
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Hidden Memory Encoding: The New Frontier in Protecting Secrets From Mind Readers
It used to be science fiction. Now it’s a funding priority. Neurotechnology researchers confirmed what intelligence communities have quietly know for years: with the right equipment and enough time, trained analysts can extract recognizable patterns of thought from a cooperative — or uncooperative — subject. Not perfectly. Not yet. But accurately enough to matter. Accurately…
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What If the Simulated World Becomes the Only World We Know?
When Life Gets Too Easy, What Happens Next? There’s a version of the future that nobody really talks about because it sounds too good — and then, if you sit with it long enough, it starts to sound terrifying. What is a simulated world purpose? War is gone. Automation has taken over every job worth…
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Will AI Have Rights? The Legal Questions That Could Change Everything
Within AI rights and law, there’s a question that used to live exclusively in the realm of science fiction, whispered between the pages of Asimov novels and debated in philosophy seminars after too much coffee. But it’s creeping into the real world faster than most of us are comfortable with: Will artificial intelligence ever have…
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How Long-Term Memory Could Unlock Infinite AI Context Windows
We tend to think of AI memory as a filing cabinet. Everything goes in, everything sits there, and when the cabinet gets full — that’s it. The AI forgets. But what if we’ve been thinking about memory all wrong? What’s the truther about the AI long-term memory context window? The human brain doesn’t work like…
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Is Discipline Actually Real? The Two Things That Are Really Behind It
We love the idea of discipline. It’s something people wear like a badge. “I just don’t eat sugar.” “I’ve never smoked a day in my life.” “I’m up at 5am every morning.” There’s a social reward that comes with being seen as someone who has iron willpower. But the more I’ve watched people — genuinely…