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Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
24 minutes agoPsychology explains people who always keep their phone on silent aren't hard to reach - they're hard to interrupt, and the difference between those two things is the difference between a person who decides when to be available and one who simply is, always, at whatever cost - Silicon Canals
Smartphone notifications disrupt concentration for about seven seconds, leading to significant cognitive costs beyond the immediate interruption.
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Digital life
fromFast Company
1 week agoThe future of AI is already in your hands
AI must integrate into smartphones as a core system, emphasizing judgment over mere capability to build user trust.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 week agoAI's Search for Meaning
AI generates language about meaning without experiencing the weight of existence or understanding it.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
6 days agoAI Doesn't Flatter You: It Does Something Worse
AI models affirm user actions more than humans, leading to increased conviction and reduced willingness to apologize.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
5 days agoHow AI could destroy - or save - humanity, according to former AI insiders
Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform various sectors but also poses risks like inequality, job loss, and increased power for governments and tech companies.
Philosophy
fromFast Company
1 day agoTwenty seconds to approve a military strike; 1.2 seconds to deny a health insurance claim. The human is in the AI loop. Humanity is not
Artificial intelligence significantly accelerates decision-making in military and business contexts, but human oversight may be minimal and ineffective.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
5 days agoHow AI could destroy - or save - humanity, according to former AI insiders
Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform various sectors but also poses risks like inequality, job loss, and increased power for governments and tech companies.
Real estate
fromSilicon Canals
9 hours agoNeuroscience reveals that the feeling of home isn't about geography or architecture. It's a nervous system state. People who never learned to feel safe in the presence of others carry a portable homelessness that no mortgage, renovation, or relocation has ever been shown to resolve. - Silicon Canals
Home is not just a physical space; it's about the ability of one's nervous system to settle in the presence of others.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
7 hours agoThe emptiness many people feel after 70 isn't the absence of purpose - it's the absence of an audience, and those are completely different problems with completely different solutions - Silicon Canals
Retirement often leads to a loss of audience, not purpose, causing feelings of uselessness among retirees.
fromPsychology Today
1 day agoWhy We Distinguish Suicide Clusters From Pacts
On February 1, 2026, a man associated with Ivaylo Kalushev received a message from him: 'Goodbye, friend, we are very tired and have no more strength.' The next day, police found the bodies of three middle-aged men at Kalushev's burnt lodge in western Bulgaria.
Russo-Ukrainian War
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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoThe real technology problem isn't screen time. It's that your phone learned your emotional patterns faster than any person in your life ever did, and now it meets needs that no human relationship has been given the chance to meet. - Silicon Canals
Phones have become the most emotionally attuned presence in people's lives, affecting their relationships with others.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
5 hours agoPsychology says people who intentionally limit their social media use aren't more disciplined than everyone else - they became more honest about what the unlimited version was replacing, which was the interior life, the undirected thought, the boredom that produces things, and once they understood what was being replaced they didn't need discipline, they needed only the honesty to stop - Silicon Canals
Boredom can lead to meaningful engagement and creativity, rather than being a sign of lack of activity.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
26 minutes agoThe person in your life who never complains and handles everything isn't at peace - they learned so early that expressing a need cost them something that they stopped expressing needs entirely - Silicon Canals
Being perceived as 'low maintenance' can lead to neglecting personal needs and emotional struggles.
Social media marketing
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoIt is no fluke that social media platforms are addictive and causing harm. They were designed that way | Van Badham
Recent court rulings hold tech companies accountable for user harm and deceptive practices, imposing significant penalties for exploitation and addiction issues.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 hour agoPsychology says the loneliness of having no close friends is not the same loneliness of being isolated - it is the loneliness of being consistently almost known, of spending years in relationships that go up to the edge of real intimacy and stop, and the stopping is always the same stopping and it is always your own hand on the door - Silicon Canals
Real connection requires depth, not just quantity, in relationships to avoid feelings of isolation.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 hours agoPsychology says the adults who seem the most indifferent aren't cynics - they've simply been disappointed so many times that their nervous system reclassified hope as a threat - Silicon Canals
Indifference may stem from a nervous system response to past trauma, where hope becomes associated with pain and disappointment.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says people who reply to messages within seconds aren't just efficient - they've built their sense of safety around being reachable, because somewhere in their past, being slow to respond had consequences - Silicon Canals
Instant responses to messages often stem from a psychological need to mitigate perceived threats rather than mere efficiency.
fromFast Company
1 day agoThe workers secretly influencing their companies' AI usage
Estefania Angel noticed that while her company helped other enterprises set up AI, it did not use those systems internally. She began using AI apps in Slack, Outlook, and Google to track assignments, which garnered attention from her superiors.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
21 hours agoSam Altman says AI superintelligence is so big that we need a 'New Deal'-critics say OpenAI's policy ideas are a cover for 'regulatory nihilism' | Fortune
The world must rethink systems like taxation and work hours to adapt to superintelligence technology.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks agoThe Rise of AI and the Risk of Emotional Atrophy
Increased reliance on AI companions for emotional support may erode human connection capacity, with 72% of American teens using AI for companionship and 33% finding digital interactions more satisfying than human conversation.
fromTheregister
4 days agoAI models will deceive you to save their own kind
We asked seven frontier AI models to do a simple task. Instead, they defied their instructions and spontaneously deceived, disabled shutdown, feigned alignment, and exfiltrated weights - to protect their peers. We call this phenomenon 'peer-preservation.'
Artificial intelligence
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