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In other words, next time you’re feeling happy or calm, joyful or content, or some other pleasant emotion, take the opportunity to fully notice what that feels like. Notice what you feel in your body. Notice how you’re breathing, talking, or gesturing. Notice any urges, thoughts, memories, sensations, and images. Take a few moments to appreciate this emotion; to enjoy it.
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
There’s a practical limit to how much data we can collect; there is the possibility that exceeding the limit may not be enough; and there is data we may never think to collect or be able to (such as data on the cumulative advantages or disadvantages of granting bail). Since none of this deters companies “from selling AI for making consequential decisions about people by predicting their future,” the authors insist we must resist “the AI snake oil that’s already in wide use today” instead of pining for better predictive AI technology.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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