Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in minute detail based on their Facebook activity.
Month: January 2017
Knowledge
Listening to EconTalk (David Gelernter on Consciousness, Computers, and the Tides of Mind): http://files.libertyfund.org/econtalk/y2016/Gelernterconsciousness.mp3
David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale University and author of The Tides of Mind, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about consciousness and how our minds evolve through the course of the day and as we grow up. Other topics discussed include creativity, artificial intelligence, and the singularity.
http://files.libertyfund.org/econtalk/y2016/Gelernterconsciousness.mp3
How San Francisco’s gender disparity affects the attractiveness pairings of couples
There seems to have been quite a bit of misunderstanding stirred up by this article, so please read this disclaimer: this analysis makes absolutely no value judgements about how attractive men & women in SF are, or how attractive they should feel.
Darwin on reading and ideas
Deep first, exploration after
Distraction by design. Tech dopamine
A poetic short film by Max Stossel & Sander van Dijk
The Millennial Question by Simon Sinek
Distracted? Let’s make technology that helps us spend our time well. By Tristan Harris
I Used to Be a Human Being
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too. By Andrew Sullivan
Infoodation 