All of this is a kind of superstition, an algorithmic animism whereby human properties are attributed to the functions of ...

I just finished a book by Richard Overy called The Twilight Years analyzing the dying throes of the exceptionalism of the British Empire (American clerisy, please take note). There was a ...

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 ...

Delusion about customer acquisition is incredibly ... Enter: PainMath, my antidote to blind magical thinking. a. Imagine you are building a new product. Magic aside, describe very clearly and ...

it’s not hard to understand why millions are turning to magical thinking. “This tendency to think that our internal thoughts or feelings can affect external events is an age-old cognitive quir ...

It means, I have a better explanation. Narrator: Phillips Stevens is an expert on what some psychologists call magical thinking. Like when people were in a bad mood say, they got up on the wrong ...

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—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 ...