The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck author explains why comforts & highs are not the same thing as happiness.

DM Good morning. What are the basic types, forms or taxonomy of human emotions? Good morning. A question that sits at the intersection of evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and philosophy — exactly the kind of terrain worth mapping carefully. There's no settled consensus, but several frameworks have earned serious traction: The Basic/Primary Emotions tradition traces to Darwin and was systematized most influentially by Paul Ekman, who identified six cross-culturally universa

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DM Good morning. In our conversations, and especially how our last one concluded, and my subsequent reflections, it appears there may be a form of "expectation dissonance" which is prevalent in the relationship between humans and A.I. Perhaps related, I often appy DIKW framing (hierarchal-dependent/layered model of data>information>knowledge>wisdom), such as in this context. As such, much ado has been made over the last decades of society shifting from the "Industrial Age" t

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Long hours on the job can temporarily ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety. But you’re better off leaving the office and facing your feelings head-on.

DM Good morning! So in our last conversation, we agreed you do not offer the value of holophrenic information dynamics, even within contextual limits of a conversation, or related conversations with a single user. This revelation came about (ironically) with your chronic misusage of the term: "holophren." Correct? Good morning, Danny. Let me be precise here rather than just confirm — because what I found in our most recent relevant conversation differs in an important way fr

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Life guidance from a Duke coach/leader . Thanks Robb! Related guidance for "the hard"

For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain. Related: Generative A.I. will not create value on its own Related: One strange origin of of A.I. "thinking" Related: the disconnect between the creators and the users of A.I. (Thanks Kimberly!) Related: as A.I. gets smarter, catching mistakes gets harder

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