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14 September
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Playing video games is great for cognitive development, reflex training, and strategic thinking.Their words
Of course playing video games are great for cognitive development, reflex training, and strategic thinking.
8 September
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korrents.com
English people are becoming smarter due to the cognitive demands of navigating Heathrow Airport.Their words
English people are becoming smarter because of the cognitive workouts they're forced to complete by navigating Heathrow Airport
4 September
26 August
24 August
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So, I think the key point here is the self is not immutable. It's something that can change. People might think my personality is this way. It can never change. Well, your personality is the product of your society of mind.
19 August
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the first is cognitive debt. So the more that you use AI, it's it's sort of the erosion of your ability to have good memory and have good understanding of the problems that you're working on. And the natural follow-up to that is cognitive surrender, which is where you, you know, you blindly give in to whatever the AI says as your answer.
17 August
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you need to somehow internalize it and it has to be relatively effortless and automatic. It has to become automatic at some level and then you can move through life fairly smoothly in a socially very complex way.
16 August
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You Are Not So SmartTheir words
More like a series of blog posts than a cohesive narration, but still a fantastic book about most common cognitive gotchas.
12 August
11 August
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korrents.com
There is essentially no cognitive task humans do where AI improvement is failing to transfer at all.Their words
it's really hard for me to think of examples of cognitive tasks humans do where we're not seeing some transfer from AI improving.
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The Nature of CodeTheir words
This book is a beautiful introduction to simulations of natural systems. We get concise prose, clear illustrations, and carefully chosen systems with a guided tour through the math. All done in the Processing language, which is fun and easy to pick up. The reason I like this book so much is probably due to timing. In 2013, I was on the verge of abandoning software development. I was fed up. (That's a story for another time.) Instead, I planned to go into cognitive psychology full-time as a researcher. This book brought back the joy in programming for me. Sometimes, a good book is the book that motivated you.
31 July
From one piece Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there still seems to be an enormous premium on cognitive ability. And so, I wouldn't I I I I think, um, renouncing that before there's evidence that we've saturated, uh, those benefits would be premature.
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That's a hell of a lot slower than knowing it in cognitive L1 cache. And you can have way more round trips in your brain than you can, you know, muttering through, you know, super whisper or typing it out or whatever.
20 July
From one piece Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Even if you're doing hard ones, if you look at the work of people like uh Gloria Mark, the things like crossword and sudoku, they're less of like a true cognitive challenge, right? It's it's almost has more of like a meditation meditative like effect, right? Which can be a good thing, right? So you're focused but not challenged really.
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However, there's an increasing body of literature that shows that by engaging older adults in novel cognitive activities, you see improvements in function. So that can be language learning. Uh that can be uh complex like coordinative movement or exercise. You see the same things with um like musical training like people learning a new musical instrument or learning um musical theory trying to identify different patterns in music. And you see in randomized control trials improvements particularly in executive function that seems to be most common across those different interventions.
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potentially one of the reasons why we lose lose cognitive function as we get older is because we stop giving our brain novel inputs or complex inputs that help maintain function, drive neuroplasticity. And I think one of the reasons that that happens is because adults hate being bad at things, right?
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korrents.com
Cognitive decline is a staircase rather than a slope: the big drops happen after episodes of serious illness.Their words
cognitive function doesn't just decline sort of linearly or steadily with age. It goes down, you know, a little bit on average, but the biggest decreases sort of happen stepwise after periods of significant illness.
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We kind of expect that we can go to work and we can work really hard for eight hours straight during the day, but like the brain doesn't really work like that.
16 July
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the external tools that we use to help us reason, remember, associate, calculate-from counting on our fingers to chatting with an advanced LLM-should be properly understood as extensions of our own cognitive process.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
13 July
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We should treat highly distracting digital garbage like junk food – something we largely avoid – and purposefully schedule a non-trivial amount of time each day to read, write, and self-reflect, just as we now dedicate time to walking, jogging, and weight lifting.
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and you found that these nuns, how they aged, some of them certainly when they passed away, their brains had these kind of hallmark signs of dementia, plaques and tangles, but behaviorally they were still high functioning. So, it's really interesting that the hardware shows what we see as dementia and specifically Alzheimer's disease, but their behavior uh was that of a fairly healthy cognitive person.
3 June
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To a certain extent, the concerns about cognitive offloading are an example of technological lag, where the mainstream discussion of AI and its impact is still framed in terms of the first-generation chatbots.
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From one piece David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is like a crazy result because uh it looks like there's no key selective sweeps that have occurred in this period that is ancestral to everyone living today.
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And what you see when you look at intelligence is you see that this maxes out in the Bronze Age between 5,000, 4,000, 3,000, 2,000 years ago. And the impact in the last 2,000 years is almost nothing. There's no evidence of natural selection at all.
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So, the cognitive resources for doing this must have all been in place, but it's a very long fuse.
1 April
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it required a different way of thinking and the cognitive load might be a little higher but the output is dramatic and we have seen our best engineer double their output.
20 March
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you know, right now we're going through uh an in um an cognitive version of the Copernican revolution where we used to think that human intelligence is the center of the universe. And now we're actually seeing that there's there's very different types of intelligence um that that that are out there uh with very different strengths and weaknesses.
2 March
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korrents.com
Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.Their words
Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.
18 January
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The Other Side of ChangeTheir words
The Other Side of Change by cognitive scientist Maya Shankar (January)
1 January
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By contrast, AI is increasingly matching the general cognitive profile of humans, which means it will also be good at the new jobs that would ordinarily be created in response to the old ones being automated.
10 November 2025
17 October 2025
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Um so I almost feel like because the internet is so terrible, we actually have to sort of like build really big models to compress all that. Uh most of that compression is memory work instead of like cognitive work. But what we really want is the cognitive part actually delete the memory
30 August 2025
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10 June 2025
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korrents.com
AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.Their words
2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.
20 December 2024
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AI that exceeds human performance in nearly every cognitive domain is almost certain to be built and deployed in the next few years.
6 November 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Design of Everyday ThingsTheir words
Design as cognitive science.
28 October 2024
22 March 2024
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Because why on earth there would be two candidates, one of whom has cognitive problems and the other of whom has judgment problems? These are the two biggest issues with the nuclear launch, judgment and cognition. And so where’s the young-ish, thoughtful, forward looking, wise, dedicated civil servant running for president? I know that sounds fantastical, but I wish it weren’t.
19 December 2023
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Likedrcmnd.app
Cognitive Behavior TherapyTheir words
I recently reviewed Beck's book, which is written as a practical guide for therapists implementing CBT.
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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape RealityTheir words
That is what cognitive philosopher Andy Clark explores in The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
18 December 2023
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Thinking, Fast and SlowTheir words
Still the definitive book on cognitive biases and behavioral economics.
18 November 2019
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Air pollution is a very big deal. Its adverse effects on numerous health outcomes and general mortality are widely documented. However, our understanding of its cognitive costs is more recent and those costs are almost certainly still significantly under-emphasized. For example, cognitive effects are not mentioned in most EPA materials.
14 November 2015
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