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Between stimulus & response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth & freedom.

— Victor Frankl

tldr; If someone hasn't used logic and reason to form their opinion, then using logic and reason to change their mind likely won't work because the foundation of their belief isn't based on rational thinking.

It's not you, it's them.

aichannel

In vibrant social networks, identity is not a static profile; it’s dynamic and context-dependent. Research in social psychology shows that a person’s identity can shift based on social context and is “neither static nor free of influences”​. 

To equip AI agents with a realistic sense of self (or to model human users), we need representations that capture this fluidity.

https://www.jasss.org/26/3/9.html#:~:text=identity%20is%20neither%20static%20nor,Mackie%20%26%20Smith%201998

men should be able to remain calm in extremely stressful and difficult situations. learned this in racing, but it's been invaluable in dire emergencies since. men shutting down, ignoring reality - that's not calm, that's catatonic failure

If we applied the economic model of constant growth to the body, we would call it cancer.

(Paraphrasing psychotherapist Francis Weller.)

Being colorblind, this is a delight to discover. 

(Doubly delightful to share on the purple app.)

Being colorblind, this is a delight to discover. 

(Doubly delightful to share on the purple app.)
https://x.com/brianroemmele/status/1836268556570497284?s=46&t=

Science

Books

anyone want to join a book club for this? it comes out tomorrow!

weekly zoom meetings for 4 weeks, a couple chapters a week to read & discuss

reply if you're interested and i'll set up a gc :)

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daniel levitin is one of the lead researchers in music psychology - i had the pleasure of taking one of his courses while studying at mcgill and learned a lot of about how music and sound can affect our brain

"Music insinuates itself into our earliest memories; it is intimately connected to our emotional regulation and cognition; its shared rhythms and sounds are essential to our social behaviors."

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/714718/i-heard-there-was-a-secret-chord-by-daniel-j-levitin/9780735246164

cross-cast to see if any psychology folks want to join in on the book club!

daniel levitin's new book focuses on how music integrates itself so deeply into our memories and emotional states and how that can affect our social behaviours

(he's also the author of "this is your brain on music" & "the organized mind")

uhhh um are you thinking what i’m thinking

I was heavily motivated by unconscious bias to find a paper elaborating on the potential for unconscious bias being adaptive

My main takeaway is it can be advantageous at times to believe something you’ve yet to prove / yet to make real

I was heavily motivated by unconscious bias to find a paper elaborating on the potential for unconscious bias being adaptive

My main takeaway is it can be advantageous at times to believe something you’ve yet to prove / yet to make real

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-020-00252-1

Our commitments allow us to move to a higher level of freedom.