Tag: cognition
AI isn’t people
"Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people. The motivated muddling of categories so prevalent in writing and thinking about AI, beginning with the very name 'artificial intelligence', is intentional and serves the narrative that this software can and will...
On the Comprehended Pretense
A bonobo tracked imaginary juice across a table. The question is whether understanding a game is the same as creating one.
The Memory Bottleneck: Why Current LLMs Can't Handle Real-World Persistence
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’
"Nothing simply is itself, outside the matrix of relationships in which it appears. Instead, being is an act or event that must happen in the space between the self and the world." Abeba Birhane does not simply regard human beings as either self-contained or self-sufficient. But can relational and autonomous accounts of the self be...
The Decoy Effect: More options for an easier choice
The Decoy Effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to have a strong preference between two options, when presented with a third option that is inferior to one of the original options.
Maximize user retention: the cognitive science approach...
Understand how multitasking affects your customers' memory, and improve your product design and engagement with cognitive psychology and the Zeigarnik effect.
Cognitive load, UX, and why you should care
Cognitive load is a concept that is important to understand that is often overlooked, and has a huge impact on both UX and the lived experience of building your product.
Sip your coffee quietly, act kindly
Watching history happen before our eyes, the economic study of bitcoin, accessibility, and drinking coffee in a quiet room.