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theconvivialsociety
AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Becoming Our Unconscious

The would-be athlete that hypothetically employs a machine to do all the 'menial' drills for them so that they can get to the really exciting parts of the game will, in fact, never get to them at all.

— Michael
15h ago

It is not reason that gives us our moral principles; it is habit, custom, the slow deposit of human experience. Reason comes after, to justify or to criticize what instinct and tradition have already established.

2d ago

We are all of us the worse for too much solitude. A man who shuts himself up from his kind becomes at last unfit for society; he acquires a hundred habits and opinions incompatible with life among men, and the cure for this evil is not to be found in the society of fools, but in that of the wise.

6d ago

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

1w ago

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Most people don't recognize the institutional imperative at work — the tendency of organizations to mindlessly imitate whatever peers are doing, regardless of whether it makes sense.

1w ago

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

1w ago

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

1w ago
themarginalian.org
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Because human beings remember with neurons, we are disposed to see more of what we have already seen, hear anew what we have heard most often, think just what we have always thought. Our minds are burdened by an informational inertia whose headlong course is not easy to slow… No individual can think his way around his own Attractors, since they are embedded in the structure of thought.

2w ago
3quarksdaily.com
Maladaptive frugality

I realized I could either continue to drain myself for a small expense, or let it go and focus on the projects in front of me. I had, unknowingly, engaged in maladaptive frugality.

1mo ago
jefftweedy
Left of the Dial (Replacements cover)

As an addict, you have to remind yourself that you're still an addict, even when you aren't doing things that are terrible for you.

1mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Performative Fitness Edition

The mechanics that make fitness culture highly visible and shareable are not always (or even typically) the ones that produce sustained behavior change.

1mo ago
lennysnewsletter.com
Your Couch-to-5K for AI

When people say they want to do something but are too busy, there is almost always something else standing in their way. This is the root of procrastination. At its core, you are waiting for some external force to change—like your endless to-do list magically disappearing, or your calendar suddenly opening up—rather than making a change in your actions, which is hard.

1mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Ukemi Edition

Your first judo class involves none of that whatsoever. Instead, you spend the overwhelming majority of your time falling down. You fall on your back and your side. You roll into a fall. You get reprimanded for sticking your arm out or not keeping your chin tucked. You are learning ukemi, the art of breakfalling. It is the foundational skillset that has allowed me, as a 41-year-old, to show up to the dojo multiple times a week and get thrown onto my back with full force by friends and strangers, and head home after to toss my kids around, carry the groceries, and do plenty of other things I'd struggle to do if I'd hurt myself.

1mo ago

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the exertion involved in a new action.

1mo ago

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

1mo ago

A man may take to drink on account of trouble, but he would be none the better for the drinking; whereas, if he takes to reading, he will become wise.

2mo ago
longreads.com
Is There Life After Smartphones?

The moment he felt sad, or scared, or uneasy, or bored, his hand would shoot instinctively, Gollum-like, toward the device. He scrolled while he walked, while he lay in bed; he scrolled while talking with friends.

2mo ago
themarginalian.org
Do Not Spare Yourself

there is no damnation greater than spending our allotted days in the catatonia of comfort and certainty, our inner lives automated by habit and halogen lit by convenience.

2mo ago
platformer.news
Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?

To say that an infinitely scrolling feed encourages overuse is to make no comment on its contents; only that the intermittent rewards that such a feed creates turns it into a kind of slot machine, and that teens would be less likely to develop problematic use if it didn't exist.

2mo ago

The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are peculiarly sensitive to their presence, and which, once awakened, work and grow by exercise. Our forefathers had convictions; we have only opinions.

2mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
Friday send: The Wardrobe Edition

I want us to all build wardrobes that make us happy, last a long time, and help us feel more like ourselves.

2mo ago
readtheprofile.com
The Profile: The world’s most disruptive company & the best-selling author on the planet

If you really think about it, "intensity," "consistency" and "authenticity" apply to almost everything that matters. Raising children requires intensity — that ferocious love and superhuman strength that shows up at 3 a.m. when you're exhausted but still rocking a baby back to sleep. Building something meaningful requires consistency — the unglamorous act of showing up again and again, long after the initial excitement fades.

3mo ago
3quarksdaily.com
Cherish Your Comfort Zone

Being in familiar surroundings with adequate control over my time and space is a necessary condition for immersing myself fully in reading, writing, and taking pictures—activities that nourish me and give me space for creativity.

3mo ago

A man may take to drink on account of trouble, but he ought to take to work on account of it. Work is the cure, not the cause of the trouble.

3mo ago

The best thing you can do is to get really good at something that is valuable to the market. And the way to get really good at something is to practice it obsessively, but you have to pick something that you have genuine curiosity about.

3mo ago

The best investment you can make is in yourself. But very few people do it, because it's unglamorous and requires a lot of discipline.

3mo ago

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