But when fears that your actions might somehow curse your future consume your thoughts and influence your behaviours, that’s called magical thinking OCD, a subtype of obsessive compulsive disorder (or ...

Magical thinking—the need to believe that one’s hopes and desires can have an effect on how the world turns—is everywhere. Spirits, ghosts, patterns, and signs seem to be everywhere ...

I've concluded there's a lot of magical thinking around what AI can do. That is, gen AI isn't as capable as you think, because there are just too many issues with this nascent technology.

Brooks observes that the current hyperbole around LLMs is the direct product of such deceptive or delusional magical thinking. Brooks goes on to point out that this is not just individual behavior ...

What happens when your universe becomes unmoored? The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's award-winning autobiographical examination of grief, arrives on Broadway this spring in one of the ...

This magical thinking isn’t just a phenomenon of real-estate reporting. It is deeply rooted even in the highest echelons of ...

A great deal of economic policy is marred by magical thinking. A great deal of economic policy is marred by magical thinking. The Left has its supernatural Keynesian multiplier effect, the Right ...

Magical thinking—the need to believe that one’s hopes and desires can have an effect on how the world turns—is everywhere. Spirits, ghosts, patterns, and signs seem to be everywhere ...

Magical thinking came to mind. Magical thinking is the notion that what one thinks about how reality works, or indeed what reality is, is indubitably true. Uncontestably true. If we think it ...

That already is a kind of magic because kids who have been unable to communicate can now share their thoughts. But this podcast takes it to a whole new level of magic. It’s not just that they ...