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AI systems are getting better at tricking us - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
But what we perceive as deception is AI mindlessly achieving the goals we’ve set for it.
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Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
Despite what happens in Google’s executive suites, workers themselves have tools to force change. Here's how.
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The hot years: the truth about what happens during menopause â and the best ways to get through it
Memory blockages can be scary and hot flushes uncomfortable. But we know so much more now about what really happens in midlife. And the aftermath can be amazing
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Why are scientists making 'moon dust'?
Space agencies around the world need lunar soil.
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How to Make Retirement Less Scary
A Times financial columnist and an illustrator share an exercise that can prepare you for life after work.
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Automation anxiety dates back to the late 16th century
The future of work debate is 500 years old.
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A Skepticâs Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space
Why we shouldn't try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
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The lie of "expired" food
Stop throwing your food away.
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Adam Curtis on the Dangers of Self-Expression
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Maybe there is a new radical way of looking at the world. A new exciting, fresh way which we haven’t seen yet because it doesn’t fit with our preconceptions. Every age has a thing that it deeply believes in that 50 years later people will look back and say, “My God, look how conformist they all were.” You look at photographs of men in bars in the 1930s. They’re all wearing exactly the same clothes and same hats.
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Solve Problems Before They Happen by Developing an “Inner Sense of Captaincy”
We can start by looking at ourselves and how we consider the voyage that is our work. When do we feel fulfillment? Is it when we swoop in to save the day and everyone congratulates us? It’s worth asking why, if we think something is worth saving, we don’t put more effort into protecting it ahead of time.
Like a long sea voyage, the nature of our work is always changing. There are stormy days and sunny ones. There are days involving highs of delight and lows of disaster. All of this happens against the backdrop of events in our personal lives and the wider world with varying levels of influence.
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