Brain Implants for Texting, Cause for Polarized Ideology, and Research Center Dedicated to Ending the World

The technology lets people with paralysis perform thought dictation at rates approaching the thumb speeds of texters. Developed by a team at Stanford University, the artificial intelligence software, coupled with electrodes implanted in the brain, was able to “read” the thoughts of a man with full-body paralysis as he was asked to convert them to handwriting.

This research linked intolerance to uncertainty to political polarization on both sides of the aisle. They found that polarized perception — ideologically warped perceptions of the same reality — was strongest in people with the lowest tolerance for uncertainty in general. This shows that some of the animosity and misunderstanding we see in society is not due to irreconcilable differences in political beliefs, but instead depends on surprising — and potentially solvable — factors such as the uncertainty people experience in daily life.

Women get dinged for their ambition and subtly encouraged to be more “feminine” even when they’re still low-ranking at work, while men get much more upset when they’re criticized, a new analysis of workplace dynamics found.

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Employees expect their jobs to bring a significant sense of purpose to their lives. Employers need to help meet this need, or be prepared to lose talent to companies that will. 70 percent of the employees surveyed said that their sense of purpose is largely defined by work.

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Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource. The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Great prose about aging.

When it was young, I drove it hard. I fed it whatever was to hand, or didn’t feed it at all. It slept only when I no longer needed its labor at the end of a long day. Day after day of steady work, night sleep sacrificed for more work; It didn’t seem to mind. It could run, it could climb, it could carry heavy loads. It was never the loveliest of its kind, but it had endurance and strength beyond what some others possessed. It still does, but it pays more dearly when what I demand exceeds what I should expect of it. It never had fast reflexes, and now it’s even slower to react.