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Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligence

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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The Effect of TV on the Visual System

Do you think people won't have a preference for seeing new things, and the t v just constantly supplies you with new, changing images? I really do. And i don't know if this is actually substantiated in the research or not, but i think this is the same reason that camp fires are mesmerizing,. It's just this kind of endlessly chaotic, unpredictable visual stimulation. At some point, on a deeper level, that becomes too much the same.

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