it’s not hard to understand why millions are turning to magical thinking. “This tendency to think that our internal thoughts ...

AI is already a focus of endless delusion, magical thinking and plain old foolishness. The more sophisticated it becomes, the more primitive and irrational people’s response to it is likely to get.

In short, your symptoms can resemble magical thinking. For instance, maybe you experience a delusion that you have god-like powers. You may then believe saying the word "cold" will cause someone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writer, linguist, and host of the hit podcast, Sounds Like a Cult, Amanda Montell turns her keenly knowledgeable eye to the ...

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 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 ...

The book, Gilbert said, "ended up being an argument for magical thinking." Gilbert said it ... "In that language is this feeling — and it may be delusional, I'm perfectly willing to say that ...