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Why I created a place for ideas and observations
I created Recknsense as a place I could post ideas, observations or references about human behavior and technology. I did this in the hope it might one day lead to a few new solutions that could be better for humans.
The Conquest of a Happiness Network
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russellis a classic. It’s a kind of philosopher’s self help book that lays out the causes of unhappiness, followed by the causes of happiness and concluding with a logical recommendation of how to be
In a world of AI assistants, how much will humans still help each other?
Why do we help each other? Humans usually like to help each other. It makes us feel good to help someone else and we’d like to think others would offer the same to us. But why do we choose to
Writing down ideas is a key to creativity
The process of writing about an idea is one of the best things you can do to help you create it. Thinking about an idea and talking about it is important but the activity of writing it down can transform
Instead of making AI more human, maybe we should ask what can AI do to help?
There is an open desire to make AI ‘more human’. Recent announcements for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI shows that the industry and researchers know they need to focus on putting humans at the center of AI development. So
The special power of the outsider to solve problems
Solving problems is hard at the best of times but trying to solve one when you are entrenched in the current thinking is even more difficult. Being on the inside means you are inundated with data about the problem, surrounded
To see the impact of technology on humans, look to artists and storytellers
How do we figure out the long term impact and implications of new technology on humans? With every new technology, there are repercussions down the line that we don’t take into account or can’t imagine at the start. It can
Calculating intent is harder than AI thinks
Working out a person’s intent is hard to calculate. In a given situation, intent is made up of different factors including: the likely outcome based on experience of yourself and others, the mood of yourself or people who are affected,
Socializing without a network
Social networks allow you to socialize once you have a network to begin with but how do we socialize without one? Without a network you need a new reason – a common situation, a shared interest, a workplace meeting or
Ways of seeing new ideas
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ is an influential guide on what to look for when viewing art aimed at the art novice. He explained how to appreciate art to an audience who have very little knowledge of the history of
One way to reduce AI bias
One of the biggest challenge in AI is figuring out a way to prevent bias. This is a huge problem to solve as the algorithms being developed and the data feeding the machine are ‘trained’ using data from real humans
Do more thought experiments in the workplace
The goal of a thought experiment is to think through a hypothesis and its potential consequences. Some of the best breakthrough scientific thinking started as a thought experiment that started as a principle and without physically doing an experiment, was
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