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☆ How the Best AI Imitates Children
  + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Alison Gopnik | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-best-ai-imitates-children-fea9c53a
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☆ The Instinct to Share Our Good Fortune
  + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Alison Gopnik | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Illustration: Tomasz WalentaWhat would you do if suddenly, out of the blue, someone gave you $10,000? Give your grandson a trip to New York? Make a big donation to help Maui fire victims? It’s fun to daydream, but this simple scenario may help to answer one of the deepest questions about human nature. Are we fundamentally selfish or altruistic?
Persons: Tomasz Walenta Locations: New York, Maui
☆ The New Promise of Psychedelics
  + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Alison Gopnik | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-promise-of-psychedelics-2280c3b
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☆ How Money Helps to Build Brain Power
  + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Alison Gopnik | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-money-helps-to-build-brain-power-d900ddaa
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☆ Opinion | What We Lose When We Push Our Kids to ‘Achieve’
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Adam Gopnik | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
I know there are objections to his view: At some moment, all accomplishment, however self-directed, has to become professional, lucrative, real. And surely many of the things that our kids are asked to achieve can lead to self-discovery; taught well, they may learn to love new and unexpected things for their own sake. There are many drugs that we swallow or inject in our veins; this is one drug that we produce in our brains, and to good effect. The hobbyist or retiree taking a course in batik or yoga, who might be easily patronized by achievers, has rocket fuel in her hands. The pursuit of accomplishment, what I call the real work, never ends, and always surprises.
☆ Pessimism Is the One Thing Americans Can Agree On
  + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Alison Gopnik | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/articles/pessimism-is-the-one-thing-americans-can-agree-on-3fc98797
☆ The Deep Bond Between Kids and Dogs
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Alison Gopnik | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Psychologist Alison Gopnik explores new discoveries in the science of human nature. Seventeen years ago, my son adopted a scrappy, noisy, bouncy, charming young street dog and named him Gretzky, after the great hockey player. Gretzky transformed into a serene guardian of the new baby, sitting quietly curled up next to him. Almost as soon as he could walk, Augie loved wrestling with what was, objectively, a sharp-toothed carnivore twice his size. When Gretzky died last October, Augie was heartbroken.
☆ ChatGPT is for suckers
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Chatbots are bullshit engines built to say things with incontrovertible certainty and a complete lack of expertise. What is it that makes human beings trust a machine we know is untrustworthy? After millennia of debate, the world's leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists haven't even agreed on a mechanism for why people come to believe things, or what beliefs even are. We want Google results to be true, because we think of Google as a trusted arbiter, if not an authority. The power of storyAnother possible explanation of why we're suckers for chatbots is that we're suckers for explanation.
☆ The Emotional Benefits of Wandering
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Alison Gopnik | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Psychologist Alison Gopnik explores new discoveries in the science of human nature. One of my greatest pleasures is to be what the French call a “flâneur”—someone who wanders randomly through a big city, stumbling on new scenes. The surrealists used to choose a Paris streetcar at random, ride to the end of the line and then walk around. And think of Mrs. Dalloway in London, Leopold Bloom in Dublin or Holden Caulfield in New York. But is there any scientific evidence for the benefit of “street-haunting,” as Virginia Woolf called it?
☆ To Get Kids Into Science, Just Do It
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Alison Gopnik | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Psychologist Alison Gopnik explores new discoveries in the science of human nature. Read previous columns here. Developmental psychologists have long noted that very small children think a lot like scientists. Anybody who has spent time with a 2-year-old has witnessed their insatiable curiosity and constant experiments. Yet by the time most children are in middle school, they lose much of that innate interest and don’t see science as part of their future, especially girls and minorities.
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