6 reasons the Myers Briggs test is not useful in picking a career
While investigating how to give good careers advice, we asked ourselves whether the Myers Briggs test, the world’s most widely used personality test, might be useful. We’ve concluded…
The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ
Are the current high levels of unemployment being caused by advances in Artificial Intelligence automating away human jobs? Conventional economic theory says this shouldn’t happen. AI, Robots, and Automation…
Luke Muehlhauser to speak at Quixey Tuesday, Aug. 20th
This coming Tuesday, MIRI’s Executive Director Luke Muehlhauser will give a talk at Quixey titled Effective Altruism and the End of the World. If you’re in or near the…
Nasa Uses Sanskrit To Program Artificial Intelligence
The extraordinary thing about Sanskrit is that it offers direct accessibility to anyone to that elevated plane where the two — mathematics and music, brain and heart, analytical…
Four New Tools for Brain Workouts
Just as football players lift weights, knowledge workers need to train their core systems to perform. 1. Quantified Mind is a really good way to measure and improve…
Nick Beckstead To Deliver Online Lecture On Ethics of Far Future 15 August | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future Thursday 15 August, 16:00 GMT (9:00 Los Angeles, 12:00 New York, 17:00 London) To be held online via Skype….
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
The new PBSOffBook video takes us on a tour of the rise of artificial intelligence. Robin Hanson and Gary Marcus summarizing the intertwined promise and peril of the inevitable…
9 Solid Productivity Techniques
Huge boosts in productivity and happiness await those willing to try: Workflowy Checklists Todo lists Beeminder Reflection Pomodoro Calendar Time Logging Catch Morning Checklists, Catch, Beeminder, Google Calendar,…
Scientists say it’s possible to blow up the Sun. On purpose.
According to Alexander Bolonkin and Joseph Friedlander, it may be possible to produce “self-supporting detonating thermonuclear reactions that spread to the full solar volume” — a similar process to the triggering…
Just how rich are you?
Sure, you might not feel all that rich compared to the mansions and millionaires around you, but what if you compared yourself to the global poor?Peter Hurford explores…
Do you ever think your phone is vibrating when it’s not?
Sensing phantom phone vibrations is a strangely common experience. Around 80% of us have imagined a phone vibrating in our pockets when it’s actually completely still. Almost 30% of us…
