Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds:
“As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding,” Sloman and Fernbach write. And here our dependence on other minds reinforces the problem. If your position on, say, the Affordable Care Act is baseless and I rely on it, then my opinion
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Elements of a Durable Civilization:
It's the combination of fast and slow that makes the whole system resilient. Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast absorbs shocks, slow integrates shocks. Fast is discontinuous, slow continuous. Fast affects slow with accrued innovation
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我刚坐下来，列车就启动了。车厢震动，站台退去。我把身体整个沉进座椅里，深呼一口气，放松下来。走道上还有几位乘客在寻找自己的座位，一位乘务员检查着行李架上的物品。旁边座位上的男人靠在小桌板上，手里玩着两个手机，坐在前面的小女孩趴在椅背上好奇地看着我，然后被她母亲拉回去坐下。我感到一阵释然，觉得一下子轻松了不少，这几天一直烦扰我的那些事，好像都躲到其它什么地方去了。我手里把玩着药盒，午后刚过的阳光打在棕色盒盖上，药片在透明的盒子里翻滚旋转。我把头靠在窗户上，看着窗外，近处迅速掠过的树林，远方久久不动的白云。
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科技圈对新鲜风口的需求甚于时尚界，加密货币、NTF、WEB3……，现在新加入“下一件大事”俱乐部的是人工智能。几乎人人都在谈论AI，线的另一头跟你聊天的狗也在思考。各类观点层出不穷，向往趋之的，警惕暂避的都有。我对它于我注意力的不断侵入已经不胜其烦，但趋势看来目前它不是一盆昙花。
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an interview with Alan Kay, by Judy Schuster:
Q: What's the matter with predefined functions?
Kay: Put a prosthetic on a healthy limb and it withers. Using the logic of current day education, we could say that since students are going to be drivers as adults, at age two we should put them in a
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Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writer:
Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts—only in the truth. You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside.
OK, how do you go about getting at that truth? You want to tell the truth. You want to be a writer. So what do
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Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression:
What happened from the early 1970s on was a shift, which said self-expression is the new politics. Self-expression is the new way of challenging the bad things in the world. But it can't, because the whole world is actually based upon self-expression.
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All Hail the Cloud:
For a long time I believed unquestioningly the standard critique of our times. It's the phones. It's the algorithm. It's our base narcissism. That our obsession with recording every fleeting moment of our lives betrayed a deeper malaise. We have become archivists of the self, I
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他站在桌前，望向窗外。夕阳还剩下一缕金光，覆盖在大地上。白云飘过楼下的街道，微风掠过远方的树林。他调整了下自己的心情，犹豫了片刻，然后转回身，坐了下来。狭小的房间昏暗凌乱，逼仄不堪。他踢开脚边堆积的纸张，看着地上散落的书籍和文档文件，然后又一次把视线移到茶几旁边那团隆起的阴影上，光线沿着它的轮廓描出一道亮边。他紧紧握了一下拳头，像是下定了决心。然后他再次起身，踩着椅子，踏在了桌子上。
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李如一:
曾經，上網就是爲了遇見非我族類。網民的世界是很大的。現在要回到線下找異類了。