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  1. 4 hours ago

    We don't hold people in high esteem if they wilfully deprive themselves of water or air. Sleep is just as necessary to health and happiness, so why do we treat it differently? Hidden Brain investigates: (50-min audio)

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  2. Sep 21

    The word 'meritocracy' was coined to describe a possible dystopian future, yet we embraced it as something to pursue. Big mistake: (24-min audio)

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  3. Retweeted
    Sep 21

    Face your fear, jump in, and let the computer help! We've added new videos to our snapshots series. Check them all out here:

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  4. Sep 20

    Democracy used to be "the shared civic religion" of America. No longer: Deeply disturbing if true – history's most successful democracy may be dying

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    Sep 20

    Explore all the Twitter highlights from⚡️ “Designing Collective Intelligence 2018” hosted by & earlier this week

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  6. Sep 19

    "The most recent estimate for how many genes are involved in complex traits like height or intelligence is approximately 'all of them'": Yup, asking 'Which gene determines intelligence?' is like asking 'Which BBC employee determines audience satisfaction?'

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  7. Sep 18

    "Twitter has had an effect on political news akin to the impact high-frequency trading had on financial markets" – ie, less factual analysis, more mindless herds: Hard to disagree. Is it right to continue using Twitter? I'm starting to think not...

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  8. Sep 18
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  9. Sep 17

    "'Casablanca' reminds us that the identification papers we carry were created not to give us freedom but rather to curtail it... and access to that right is dictated largely along class lines." It remains true to this day:

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  10. Retweeted
    Sep 17

    Superb visual notes and sound bites from today’s sessions. ‘Collective wisdom greatly outperforms AI’

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  11. Sep 16

    "[E]verything is quantum, but not everything is discrete." What about space and time:

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  12. Sep 16

    "One Universe is not enough" – why the multiverse is unavoidable, even if it's also unobservable:

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  13. Sep 15

    Gmail have reduced the spam in my inbox only to inject increasing numbers of irrelevant and annoying ads that look just like emails. I'm not sure that counts as progress. Solution: I've nuked my Gmail 'Promotions' and 'Social' tabs, so no more ads for now

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  14. Sep 15

    "This is how Google will collapse": Surprisingly convincing speculative history from the near future

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  15. Sep 14

    "[S]tatistics and big-data cannot answer ANY causal question". A bold statement from Judea Pearl, but he has a point:

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  16. Sep 14

    "The personal-data privacy war is long over, and you lost" – but not just because of big tech:

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  17. Sep 13

    "Given sufficient speed, [online] virality can generate fear and conflict out of thin air." Some examples:

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  18. Sep 13

    "For the longest time, we thought that as speech became more democratized, democracy itself would flourish." It's now clear that the opposite is true:

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  19. Sep 13

    Google "has been quietly collaborating with the Chinese government on a new, censored search engine—and abandoning its own ideals in the process":

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  20. Sep 13

    "Historically, autocracies have faced crippling handicaps in regard to innovation and economic growth" – but AI might change all that:

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