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"There was an interesting passage I read, how the humans are cultured to prey on negative feeds. Nothing new, but I rather mention it.
The excerpt:
"We cant fight it: evil is more powerful and more plentiful than good. We are more sensitive to negative than to positive things."
Sales/marketers employee this tactic." — Jan 10, 2020 03:18AM
"There was an interesting passage I read, how the humans are cultured to prey on negative feeds. Nothing new, but I rather mention it.
The excerpt:
"We cant fight it: evil is more powerful and more plentiful than good. We are more sensitive to negative than to positive things."
Sales/marketers employee this tactic." — Jan 10, 2020 03:18AM
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"So far - enjoying. true stuff. I generally enjoy how ideas are presented..so lets see." — Jun 23, 2021 05:09AM
"So far - enjoying. true stuff. I generally enjoy how ideas are presented..so lets see." — Jun 23, 2021 05:09AM
“Don’t always consider all your options. Don’t necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let things wait. Trust your instincts and don’t think too long. Relax. Toss a coin. Forgive, but don’t forget. To thine own self be true.”
― Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
― Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Letters of Ted Hughes
― Letters of Ted Hughes
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
― Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
“No choice recurs. We may get similar choices again, but never that exact one. Hesitation—inaction—is just as irrevocable as action. What the motorist, locked on the one-way road, is to space, we are to the fourth dimension: we truly pass this way but once.”
― Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
― Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
“Seemingly innocuous language like 'Oh, I'm flexible' or 'What do you want to do tonight?' has a dark computational underbelly that should make you think twice. It has the veneer of kindness about it, but it does two deeply alarming things. First, it passes the cognitive buck: 'Here's a problem, you handle it.' Second, by not stating your preferences, it invites the others to simulate or imagine them. And as we have seen, the simulation of the minds of others is one of the biggest computational challenges a mind (or machine) can ever face.”
― Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
― Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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