ReHacked vol. 315: Isaac Asimov on How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans, 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time and more
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Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity: Watch His Last Major Interview (1992) | Open Culture #futurism #sci-fi #history
6 minutes #video inside.
Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be surprisingly tricky to define. In the more than 30-year-old interview clip above, Isaac Asimov describes artificial intelligence as “a phrase that we use for any device that does things which, in the past, we have associated only with human intelligence.” At one time, not so very long before, “only human beings could alphabetize cards”; in the machines that could even then do it in a fraction of a second, “you’ve got an example of artificial intelligence.” Not that humans were ever especially good at card alphabetization, nor at arithmetic: “the cheapest computer in the world can multiply and divide more accurately than we can.”
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How to win an argument with a toddler | Seth's Blog #communication
You can’t.
That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one.
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If you’re regularly having arguments with well-informed people of goodwill, you will probably ‘lose’ half of them–changing your mind based on what you’ve learned. If you’re not changing your mind, it’s likely you’re not actually having an argument (or you’re hanging out with the wrong people.) While it can be fun to change someone else’s position, it’s also a gift to learn enough to change ours.
GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a (experimental) #software
100 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time For A Mind-Bending Night #movies #history #rabbithole
From human clones to alien invasions: we asked scientists, filmmakers and writers to select the best sci-fi films in cinema history
Basic Income Pilot Project | Study results #economy #ubi #society
Does a basic income make people lazy? This assumption has been widely discussed, but never substantiated. The Basic Income Pilot Project demonstrates that the opposite is true.
- Everyone keeps working
- More job changes
- Greater satisfaction in working life
- More further education
More insights you can find here.
How to make someone feel seen and heard | Psyche Guides #psychology #longread
Key points:
- Validation shows that ‘you’re there, you get it and you care.’ Validation skills can help improve relationships, reduce conflict and increase personal influence.
- What validation is – and what it isn’t. Validation is about accepting someone’s experience, not praising them, fixing their problems, or agreeing with them.
- The ‘validation ladder’ gives you three types of skills to practise. These get more challenging as you go further along, but you can always fall back on the earlier ones.
- Be mindful of the other person: Attend and Copy. Give some signs that you’re paying attention (eg, eye contact, nodding). If listening feels hard, challenge yourself to sum up their point and why it matters to them. You can also reflect back key words and expressions.
- Show that you understand: Contextualise, Equalise, and Propose. Acknowledge when their experience makes sense in a certain light, or when you think anyone else would feel the same as they do. If you can accurately propose what they might be feeling or thinking, it shows that you’re highly tuned in.
- Demonstrate empathy: Take Action, Emote, and Disclose. Responding to someone’s experience by helping out, revealing your own feelings, or sharing about a similar experience can demonstrate your emotional connection with them.
We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing | The Verge #photography #software
JPGs are ready to post just about anywhere, while RAWs yield an unfinished file filled with extra data that allows for much richer post-processing. That option for a RAW file (and even the generic name, RAW) has been standardized across the camera industry — but despite that, the camera world has never actually settled on one standardized RAW format.
Most cameras capture RAW files in proprietary formats, like Canon’s CR3, Nikon’s NEF, and Sony’s ARW. The result is a world of compatibility issues. Photo editing software needs to specifically support not just each manufacturer’s file type but also make changes for each new camera that shoots it. That creates pain for app developers and early camera adopters who want to know that their preferred software will just work.
Adobe tried to solve this problem years ago with a universal RAW format, DNG (Digital Negative), which it open-sourced for anyone to use. A handful of camera manufacturers have since adopted DNG as their RAW format. But the largest names in the space still use their own proprietary files. And there’s no sign of that changing anytime soon.
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