New Year’s advice to unplug from the 24/7 social media/news virtual reality and calm down. I argue that social media, social psychology tricks, recommendation engines, and state of the art AI are driving a massive, costly and dangerous overreaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and offer some advice to retake your mind from technology run amok.
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References/Credits:
Tristan Harris and the AI Apocalypse
Tristan Harris Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tristan_Harris_at_Collision_Conf_2018_(cropped).jpg
“How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day” Tristan Harris TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C74amJRp730
Tristan Harris Web Site: https://www.tristanharris.com/
Laurie Santos on Knowing About Cognitive Bias is Not Enough:
Lauria Santos and Tamar Gendler on “Knowing is Half the Battle”: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25436
Nobel Prize Winning Cognitive Bias Expert Falls Prey to Cognitive Bias
Cognitive Bias Expert Daniel Kahneman Placed Too Much Confidence in Underpowered Studies: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-underpowered-studies-nobel-prize-winner-admits-mistakes/
High IQ People are Vulnerable to Cognitive Bias
Does High Intelligence Mean Low Cognitive Bias? https://www.globalcognition.org/intelligence-and-cognitive-bias/
Myside Bias, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence
By Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West, and Maggie E. Toplak
http://keithstanovich.com/Site/Research_on_Reasoning_files/Stanovich_CDPS_2013.pdf
High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities
By Ruth I.Karpinski,
Audrey M.Kinase Kolb, Nicole A.Tetreault, and Thomas B.Borowski
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616303324
Bad News for the Highly Intelligent
Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
By David Z. Hambrick, Madeline Marquardt on December 5, 2017, Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-intelligent/
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John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).