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Platforms Changing Beliefs Over Reinforcement Echo Chambers
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Awesome. Possibly the first time I ever heard that on X! Imagine if this platform were geared towards sometimes changing people’s beliefs, and not just to reinforcing them.
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Are Temporary Positions Career Killers in Modern Workforce?
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Ask HR: Are Temp Positions Career Killers? https://
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AI Scientist Serrano: Diversity Essential in ML Teams
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Ex-Google staffer and AI scientist Serrano, initially a mathematician, transitioned into Machine Learning, exploring Quantum Computing to Large Language Models. He highlights the necessity of diverse teams in AI/data science for richer perspectives.
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Algorithmic engagement optimization versus truth in content
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It’s designed to make you feel something, not designed to reflect the world. Causing you to feel disgust, disbelief, or pity is a victory condition; if it can accomplish that will outcompete a less evocative video of a family eating dinner. “Solve for equilibrium.” as they say.
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Gen Z Startup Reimagines Comic Shop Experience
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🏈👨🏻💻👩🏻💻 Sunday football while helping my son with his college applications and a startup he’s working on that reimagines the comic book & collectibles shop experience for tech savvy Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids. pic.twitter.com/EDfW6CXXou
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 5 novembre 2023Sunday football while helping my son with his college applications and a startup he’s working on that reimagines the comic book & collectibles shop experience for tech savvy Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids.
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TikTok activism and online misinformation shaping foreign policy discourse
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Thanks for sharing how this was landing for you. My takeaway from it was the TikTok activism part because it’s relatable to my experience of everyone online turning into a foreign policy expert on Taiwan when they used to confuse it with Thailand.
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TikTok Algorithms: Government Control and Social Division Risk
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Just saying, if I were a government that controlled the company that controlled TikTok, I would absolutely use it to exploit our free society with algorithms that fed into everyone’s confirmation bias, tribalism and need to be right in order to create more division and hate.
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Critical Inquiry Over Certainty in Understanding Truth
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Yeap. In practice, preferring inquiry over certainty means constantly questioning and critically examining the information we encounter. It's about being open to multiple perspectives, not taking things at face value, and acknowledging that our understanding of truth is often
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AI Challenges Our Ability to Discern Truth and Authenticity
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I've recently started to doubt the idea that we can ever fully know the truth or objective facts. With the advancements in AI, it's becoming harder to discern the authenticity of information, and I often find myself questioning what is real. I now adopt a more agnostic view