Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Michael Wesch rules

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If you haven’t seen them yet, here are three must-see videos from Dr. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University:

Web 2.0 … the Machine is Us/ing Us

Information Revolution

A Vision of Students Today

Other videos are available at the Moving Forward videos wiki page (feel free to add some more!).

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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High Culture

“Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon Chu on the American Dream and silencing your inner critic

“No matter how long you’ve been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you’ve never done it before.”

Portrait of an older man with a beard wearing a hat, depicted in purple tones, with scientific and alchemical symbols in the background, capturing the essence of a truth machine.

Thinking

The perpetual quest for a truth machine

Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.

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Business

How two “razors” can help you make smarter decisions

Some news is slow, some news is fast — and there are two simple techniques to help you filter both.

The Present

Khan Academy’s founder on how AI can supercharge “mastery learning”

“We should be informed and educated about the risks of AI, but we can’t be afraid,” Khan Academy founder Sal Khan told Big Think.

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The Present

AI model uses human irrationality to predict our next moves

“How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave.”

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