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POPSSingular Sensations "At a certain point in the future, probably within the next few decades, the smarter, faster, smarter, faster cycle will have allowed us to remake aspects of our world -- and, potentially, ourselves -- in ways that would astonish, confuse, and maybe even frighten earlier generations. To those of us imagining this point in the future, it's a dramatic transformation; to those folks living through that future point, it's the banality of the everyday."
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POPSHow Thinking Costs You
"In fact, in most situations what you don't know is so overwhelmingly more important than what you do know that you have no business acting on what you know." Barbara Warner, a financial planner with Warner Financial in Bethesda, said she sees a lot of overconfidence among two groups of people: relatively new investors to the market (me), particularly recent business school graduates (not me), and retirees (never, with my investment sense). The latter group can be exceptionally frustrating. "Now they have entirely too much time on their hands to devote to CNBC and Money magazine," she said. "People suddenly think they are smarter than they used to be because they have more time to pay attention to it." "The more closely you pay attention, the more you do things. And the more you do things, the worse off you will be." For proof, he pointed to groundbreaking research done by one of his former students, Terrance Odean, now a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Odean h
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POPS Viagra for the brain? It’s not an amphetamine or stimulant, the article explained: it doesn’t make you high, or wired. It seems to work by restricting the parts of your brain that make you sluggish or sleepy. No significant negative effects have been discovered. Now students are using it in the run-up to exams as a “smart drug” – a steroid for the mind.
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POPSMore Families Refusing Vaccinations, Acting Smarter Good mom, safer children. People no longer trust the government and are taking personal responsibility. Smart. And they are pushing State laws to permit conscientious objectors to vaccines. The government does not own your child's body, or yours, and scientific method does not support the assertion that vaccines work or actually prevent illness, while they do show that many become sick due to them. (See the history of anti-vaccination and small pox).
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POPSArtificial Intelligence and Society We act like our tiny little corner of mindspace is the whole universe. We think of the scale of intelligence as if it ran from a village idiot to Einstein, rather than running from an amoeba up to humans. On the scale of interspecies differences of intelligence–if you are comparing yourself to a mouse–then the distance between a village idiot and Einstein fits onto a small dot. You might be able to tell the difference between a village idiot and an Einstein, but a chimpanzee would have a bit of trouble administering the IQ test.
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POPSDick Clark ushers in the end of an era I'm starting to feel that horrible end-of-junior-year feeling. You know: the best, most hopeful part is behind you; soon, the buffer of smarter elders will be gone, and next, you'll be shoved out to sea on a metaphorical ice floe. Winter of my discontent, indeed.
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POPSIf users could be trained, The best answer is if users could be trained not to fall for the social engineering tricks that make most modern malware effective. But sadly, people don't seem to be getting smarter fast enough. True, so very true.
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POPSAI Singularity: The Next Stage of Human Evolution? "Technology is heading here. It will predictably get to the point of making artificial intelligence," Yudkowsky said. "The mere fact that you cannot predict exactly when it will happen down to the day is no excuse for closing your eyes and refusing to think about it."
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POPSGeorge Webb. Pima "The smarter a man is the more he needs God to protect him from thinking he knows everything." My Creator, guide my path and show me how to correct my life. Many leaders believe they have the knowledge to lead, but in the end they all need guidance, however some have taken the path of ignorance believing they are all knowing, needing no guidance. Cougar
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POPSDon't Write Like An Idiot This is a reclip of an older clip that Invictus made. His original exceeded the current clip limit so I couldn't revive it. Refresher everyone.
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POPSTodd Oldham Leads Old Navy Makeover As industry insiders debate The Gap's struggle for solvency, Todd Oldham's recent appointment as creative director for Old Navy receives mixed reviews. Thanks to Leslie Ernest for including my two cents in this LA Times article.
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POPSRoutine: The enemy of intelligence Most of us go through life with routines. We wake up every day, go to school/work and do the same mundane things over and over that we're expected/told to do. It gives us a sense of certainty, it's less risky, it's what's expected of us. But I think it's something we have to break out of in order to improve ourselves. We need to break out of our comfort zone. And that's how you'll become smarter.
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