Tag: Psychology
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‘I perfected deception’: My secret life as a relapsed alcoholic | Alcoholism | The Guardian
I don’t pretend to remember exactly what I was thinking during this time, or all the convoluted ways I rationalised my actions to myself, but I do remember the fundamental inability to buy into the reality of my secret life, and the inarticulate conviction that so long as the official version of my life continued…
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Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven? – Marginal REVOLUTION
When people hold views for reasons of mood management (however sincerely), typically they are unable to respond intelligently to questions challenging their beliefs. Even very smart people will pull b.s. out of the hat and stick with it, moving on rapidly, mentally, to some other topic. Their response is not really thought through, it is…
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious – The Atlantic
Experiencing an emotion such as desperation is inseparable from having stress hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine flood one’s body. Similarly, having a conscience means feeling sadness or moral repulsion at the idea of taking a certain action, and those emotions entail a physiological response, a remnant of having once felt sick with guilt after…
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Why even ‘perfect’ AI therapy may be structurally doomed – Marginal REVOLUTION
But all else equal: does infinite, on-demand therapy—even assuming the highest quality per unit of therapeutic interaction—sound like a good idea to you? I can tell you, to me it does not. First of all, despite detractors’ claims to the contrary, the basic idea of therapy is not to make you dependent for life—but rather,…