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What I Learned Training for the U.S. Memory Championship: 5 Surprising Truths About Your Brain We have all felt the frustration of a normal memory. It’s the sting of forgetting an acquaintance’s...

Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence" warns of the potential dangers of AI, emphasizing that intelligence is separate from goals. He describes issues like "perverse instantiation," fast takeoff scenarios, and the failure of sandbox testing. Bostrom concludes that humanity faces a crucial, one-shot challenge when creating superintelligence, determining its alignment with human values and future.

Why Your Talented Team Is Failing: 5 Unwritten Rules You Need to Know The Mystery of Why Great Teams ImplodeWhy do so many teams, filled with talented, hard-working individuals, fail to achieve...

Why Your Brilliant Tech Product Will Fail: 4 Secrets from 'Crossing the Chasm'1. Introduction: The Billion-Dollar QuestionWhy do so many promising high-tech products—often with demonstrably superior features—fail spectacularly while less remarkable...

Marvin Minsky's "The Emotion Machine" argue that the mind, unlike physics, cannot be explained by a few simple laws because it is composed of hundreds of interconnected, specialized parts or "resources." This theory posits that complex mental states like emotion, consciousness, and self-awareness are not single entities but rather "suitcase words" for the interactions and competition among these resources, often involving switching them on or off or affecting their priority. The text explores how attachments to "Imprimers" (attached persons) are crucial for developing higher-level goals and values through feelings like pride and shame. Furthermore, Minsky contrasts this complex, multi-layered view with the illusion of a single, unified "Self" and proposes that thinking involves hierarchical processing and using different models to reflect on and solve problems, suggesting that even processes like suffering result from cascades of mental disruption.