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It's #womenssportsweek. I was blessed to play at an institution that taught me in order to fulfill a life of virtue, we must welcome challenges. I learned this on the field alongside the strongest and best women. "Virtus tentamine gaudet." "Strength rejoices in the challenge."

In the face of rapidly advancing AI technology, individuals will increasingly rely on AI agents to navigate life's growing complexities, raising critical concerns about maintaining both human agency and autonomy. This paper addresses a fundamental dilemma posed by AI decision-support systems: the risk of either becoming overwhelmed by complex decisions, thus losing agency, or having autonomy compromised by externally controlled choice architectures reminiscent of ``nudging'' practices. While the ``nudge'' framework, based on the use of choice-framing to guide individuals toward presumed beneficial outcomes, initially appeared to preserve liberty, at AI-driven scale, it threatens to erode autonomy. To counteract this risk, the paper proposes a philosophic turn in AI design. AI should be constructed to facilitate decentralized truth-seeking and open-ended inquiry, mirroring the Socratic method of philosophical dialogue. By promoting individual and collective adaptive learning, such AI systems would empower users to maintain control over their judgments, augmenting their agency without undermining autonomy. The paper concludes by outlining essential features for autonomy-preserving AI systems, sketching a path toward AI systems that enhance human judgment rather than undermine it.

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I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.

The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning.

How R&D Venture Studios Orchestrate Entrepreneurial Chemistry

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Kobayashi is a pioneer of building treehouses in Japan, who self-taught the design and the philosophy behind treehouse and implemented its style into the landscape of Japan. Since the production of his first treehouse in 1993, Kobayashi has built over 140 treehouses and art pieces around the globe with his unique artistic designs and architectural concepts/techniques rooted deeply in the traditional architectural methods of Japan. Kobayashi and his collective treehouse builders continue to promote treehouses using driftwoods and reclaimed woods found locally as materials for their projects, and sometimes recyclable waste materials, in the hope to create and promote a new way of architecture that brings people and nature closer without harming the health of trees, its growth, and the surrounding natural environment.

In 1993 a tree house was built in Harajuku. Now 22 years and over 120 tree houses later Takashi Kobayashi and his company Tree House People are masters at their craft.

Watch now (20 mins) | How Joel Unger, design director at Atlassian, uses AI to speed up design, animate assets, and bridge the gap with devs

Episode 101 S5E20 The Boy Who Knew Too Much

All business is people business. People work best on trust. The more trust, the less communication necessary. So we do our best to build a lot of trust with you early on by being fair and transparent.

Pope Francis criticized the media’s focus on negative events in pretty harsh language – he warned journalists to “not fall prey to the sickness of coprophilia, which is always wanting to communicate scandal, to communicate ugly things, even though they may be true.”

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With averages, mentioning too many items can actually reduce your overall perceived value.

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When given information about its human opponents, the large language model GPT-4 was able to make particularly convincing arguments.