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How to reboot your memory for 2024
The Power of Curating Memorable Experiences
AI Key Takeaways
- Take a moment to be in the moment.
- Change your context from time to time.
- Curate your memories to have memorable experiences to look back on.
- A change of context helps create distinctive memories.
- Document moments that put you back in that place in time.
- Quality over quantity and less is more with memory can be beneficial in the long run.
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How to reboot your memory for 2024
The impact of technology on memory and daily functioning
AI Key Takeaways
- The constant use of smartphones with photos, captions, and emails may not necessarily help in remembering important information.
- Documenting everything and overusing technology can potentially harm memory.
- Technology has the potential to improve daily functioning, such as outsourcing the memorization of phone numbers and appointments.
- Mindlessly documenting every moment and spending too much time on phones can create competition in memory.
- Using technology selectively and mindfully can help create lasting memories.
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…We’re trusting it anyway
Thinking about Possible Harms and Regulation to Prevent Harm
AI Key Takeaways
- Possible harms should be considered and regulation should be used to prevent harm as much as possible.
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…We’re trusting it anyway
AI's Cost and Control
AI Key Takeaways
- AI is not just software, it requires powerful computers and a significant amount of human labor and financial resources.
- The government has the potential to regulate access to computer chips for AI development or allocate more resources to non-profit academic researchers.
- There is a possibility of limiting the deployment and release of AI systems to commercial actors or other entities.
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Apple’s Vision Pro: the headset of the future?
Apple's new immersive video format and Magic Leap's VR demos
AI Key Takeaways
- Apple has invented a new video format called Apple Immersive Video
- They have developed a proprietary new camera to shoot this video format
- The specs of the video format and camera are not shared by Apple
- The demos concocted by Apple at the highest level of their ambition are executed well
- Developers have access to the camera now
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Seventh-Inning Stretch
The History of 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game'
AI Key Takeaways
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game was played live at certain ball games in the 1930s and gained popularity through the 40s.
- Organ music took off in ballparks around the country in the following decades, and Take Me Out to the Ball Game became a classic in pop culture.
- Frank Sinatra's movie coincidentally called Take Me Out to the Ball Game helped turn the song into an American Classic.
- Throughout the 50s and 60s, the song's popularity waned and surged due to various pop culture appearances.
- Nancy Faust, a woman who played organ for the Chicago White Sox, helped turn Take Me Out to the Ball Game into a ballpark ritual.
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Parking is a lot
Rethinking Parking and Charging for Electric Cars
AI Key Takeaways
- Installing public charging is necessary and requires rethinking parking and charging. People cannot leave their cars for extended periods at charging stations
- Rethinking people's relationship with parking is possibly the greatest challenge in this endeavor
- Exploring other potential uses for public space previously designated for private automobile storage is important
- Opportunity exists to avoid blocking public space for parking exclusively and creating an expensive infrastructure
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#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy
Using Technology to Manage Attention in Online Communication
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#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy
The Limitations of Technology in Building Empathy and the Potential of Immersive Realities
AI Key Takeaways
- The limitations of technology stem from the shared experiences of its users
- Immersive realities offer a natural solution to this problem
- Inviting others into one's own reality via immersive realities is more effective than traditional means of communication
- The challenge is finding a way to create immersive realities without requiring technical know-how
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#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy
The Importance of Analog Deliberative Democracy in Community Organization
AI Key Takeaways
- The speaker is still working on the same project, Ra democracy, which is a technology for swift trust.
- The speaker's research topic at the age of 15 was De.
- The idea of a more analogue part in deliberative democracy is important and focuses on people-to-people relationships and resonating with people.
- Community organization is equally important in the analogue counterpart of democracy.
- The speaker was involved in the free software and open source movement which gave rise to collaboration scale.
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