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I treat my mind as a big great block. If something is disturbing me, I stop to put everything into place and move "all together" again. It works and I'm more productive this way.

I got nothing to hide. Or so the saying goes.

I think for the big apps like Whatsapp and Facebook it makes sense that the companies want to hide the features that give users control beyond the "standard" way of using the app in places where they cannot find it.

Fear of Small Numbers, by Arjun Appadurai

The phys.org article has absolutely no information. At least it links the worldscientific article.

Coming from my perspective a little. Iran is a part of BRICS now and Lula has defended Iran in latest interviews. Let's see how things develop and if Iran representatives will come to Rio (for the BRICS Summit). This is troubling.

Microsoft does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: "Nope."

Google does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: "Nope."

MIT does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: "Fine, I'll read your goddamn opinion on the matter."

Edited: The article is good, I recommend it. However, I find this "brain-only" approach to be too biased. Students and people in general cannot learn without external information. This approach assumes people have studied the topics beforehand and have knowledge in it, which causes biases on the study and beats the purpose of it, which is proving people do not learn using LLMs!

The article criticized the closing of the Internet by Tehran, but the Internet is clear vulnerability that can be exploited in times of war.

"you’re not really a man unless you hate women". This is so true. I wish I knew better why this rift between sexes is so useful in politics. When talking about sex, we have to seek what we have in common, not our differences. If sexual attraction was a problem for deep relationships, then gay men wouldn't always be together. This sexually divisive standard serves someone right. Women should look at this more carefully.

I know this isn't a popular opinion, but maybe the Executive has too much power. Power needs to be more decentralized. Will policies that make sense come out of this? I'm no political scientist, but this amount of power isn't good.

Don't make me believe this is the kind of talk that's going on Twitter.

I call that 'malint' (malicious intent)