gizmodo.com
It is easier to tailor AI to fit your biases than a standard search engine query. There are lots of people for whom thinking is hard work, and is to be avoided in its entirety. In this light, it is easy to see how AI can be more detrimental to thought than a simple search query.‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains
Once you learn this term, you will unfortunately see it everywhere.
bUt ItS No DiFfErEnT ThAn UsInG GoOgLe, they told me
And I think AI actually gives you ANSWERS, right or wrong... if you google stuff you rarely find "the answer" you have to do some reading and some thinking unless you're just searching for basic factual information. The AI actually finds an answer for you, it's definitely a more passive experience.
I don't read or give credence to studies with headlines like this. "Doing X reduces/increases risk of Y by Z% study says!". Horseshit. I don't care what their methodology was. There's zero chance it was comprehensive enough to solidly and accurately draw these causal conclusions. All studies that produce headlines like this are either bullshit or the headline itself was just made up and the study doesn't say that at all.
birdinflight.com
What the gay with all the patriarchy comments. Snap guess that the painter dude is gay given the photo they used of him with some other dude? Sorry to kinda make it political, just kinda leapt out at me while scrolling through out of curiosity.View attachment 627661To Ukraine with Love: Drawings of a Japanese Prisoner of War — Bird In Flight
After the ending of World War II a Japanese soldier Nobuo Kiuchi spent 2 and a half years in the Soviet POW camps located in Ukraine. On coming home, he had created a series of drawings about his challenging experience.
I recall one mention of that word in regards to the Soviets using women in the army, he and his fellows enjoyed being around them. One of the final pieces shows a pregnant girl weeping as the prisoners are sent back to Japan. It's a shame that they allowed such fraternization to take place.
Just need to make sure it doesn't melt humans...pretty amazing.
