Frequency of Reason
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If your life doesn’t fit in ten tracks, you’re overcomplicating it.
This playlist is a biography you can dance to. Because dancing counts as processing, right?
Check out the whole story and the playlist here: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
This playlist is a biography you can dance to. Because dancing counts as processing, right?
Check out the whole story and the playlist here: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
Weekly playlist: Life in 10 Tracks or Less
A minimalist guide to the chaos of being alive.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If your life doesn’t fit in ten tracks, you’re overcomplicating it.
This playlist is a biography you can dance to. Because dancing counts as processing, right?
Check out the whole story and the playlist here: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
This playlist is a biography you can dance to. Because dancing counts as processing, right?
Check out the whole story and the playlist here: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
Slow reading is the new counterculture.
Everyone’s bragging about how many books they finish. Nobody’s bragging about the pages they actually remember. Slow readers don’t fall behind — they dodge the algorithm’s trap.
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Everyone’s bragging about how many books they finish. Nobody’s bragging about the pages they actually remember. Slow readers don’t fall behind — they dodge the algorithm’s trap.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/stop-skimm...
Stop Skimming and Start Sabotaging
An anarchist’s love letter to slow reading.
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August 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Slow reading is the new counterculture.
Everyone’s bragging about how many books they finish. Nobody’s bragging about the pages they actually remember. Slow readers don’t fall behind — they dodge the algorithm’s trap.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/stop-skimm...
Everyone’s bragging about how many books they finish. Nobody’s bragging about the pages they actually remember. Slow readers don’t fall behind — they dodge the algorithm’s trap.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/stop-skimm...
Relationships don’t expire.
You can skip birthdays, vanish for years, miss calendar invites — then one night over a cheap beer you’re laughing like nothing broke. The streak was never the point. The moment is.
📌 Don’t keep scores; keep showing up.
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You can skip birthdays, vanish for years, miss calendar invites — then one night over a cheap beer you’re laughing like nothing broke. The streak was never the point. The moment is.
📌 Don’t keep scores; keep showing up.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/the-aftert...
The Aftertaste of Gratefulness (and Kebab)
Proof that one night out can feed you for years.
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August 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Relationships don’t expire.
You can skip birthdays, vanish for years, miss calendar invites — then one night over a cheap beer you’re laughing like nothing broke. The streak was never the point. The moment is.
📌 Don’t keep scores; keep showing up.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/the-aftert...
You can skip birthdays, vanish for years, miss calendar invites — then one night over a cheap beer you’re laughing like nothing broke. The streak was never the point. The moment is.
📌 Don’t keep scores; keep showing up.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/the-aftert...
For the drama kings, queens, and cryptic texters.
This playlist has everything: bluesy exits, sarcastic comebacks, eyeliner tears, and a defiant strut into the future. It’s your breakup arc in 10 songs — but with better timing and no unread messages.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
This playlist has everything: bluesy exits, sarcastic comebacks, eyeliner tears, and a defiant strut into the future. It’s your breakup arc in 10 songs — but with better timing and no unread messages.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
Weekly playlist: Breakups and New Beginnings
The soundtrack for slamming doors and opening new ones.
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August 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
For the drama kings, queens, and cryptic texters.
This playlist has everything: bluesy exits, sarcastic comebacks, eyeliner tears, and a defiant strut into the future. It’s your breakup arc in 10 songs — but with better timing and no unread messages.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
This playlist has everything: bluesy exits, sarcastic comebacks, eyeliner tears, and a defiant strut into the future. It’s your breakup arc in 10 songs — but with better timing and no unread messages.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
Your habits are already voting on your future.
Every small choice is a ballot. Stack enough of them and you’ve basically elected your destiny. No recounts. Character is just accumulated choices.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/heraclitus...
Every small choice is a ballot. Stack enough of them and you’ve basically elected your destiny. No recounts. Character is just accumulated choices.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/heraclitus...
Heraclitus and the Dishwasher of Destiny
The hidden math that turns daily choices into lifelong outcomes.
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August 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Your habits are already voting on your future.
Every small choice is a ballot. Stack enough of them and you’ve basically elected your destiny. No recounts. Character is just accumulated choices.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/heraclitus...
Every small choice is a ballot. Stack enough of them and you’ve basically elected your destiny. No recounts. Character is just accumulated choices.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/heraclitus...
The internet loves categories. Real life is all about overlap.
You’re old when Spotify serves you “Classic Rock” playlists with songs you made out to in high school. You’re young when TikTok teaches you slang your coworkers already use.
📌 Being impossible to label might be the best label of all.
You’re old when Spotify serves you “Classic Rock” playlists with songs you made out to in high school. You’re young when TikTok teaches you slang your coworkers already use.
📌 Being impossible to label might be the best label of all.
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August 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The internet loves categories. Real life is all about overlap.
You’re old when Spotify serves you “Classic Rock” playlists with songs you made out to in high school. You’re young when TikTok teaches you slang your coworkers already use.
📌 Being impossible to label might be the best label of all.
You’re old when Spotify serves you “Classic Rock” playlists with songs you made out to in high school. You’re young when TikTok teaches you slang your coworkers already use.
📌 Being impossible to label might be the best label of all.
Not every app wants your attention. Some want to give it back.
That’s the kind of design worth celebrating: no ads, no traps, just tools that help you do the thing you already wanted to do.
⬖ Choosing care over clicks at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
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That’s the kind of design worth celebrating: no ads, no traps, just tools that help you do the thing you already wanted to do.
⬖ Choosing care over clicks at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
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Hank Green's new ADHD-friendly 'focus app' is the hottest new cozy game: 'The bean really wants to keep knitting'
The new app has already skyrocketed in popularity in the App Store.
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August 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Not every app wants your attention. Some want to give it back.
That’s the kind of design worth celebrating: no ads, no traps, just tools that help you do the thing you already wanted to do.
⬖ Choosing care over clicks at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/han...
That’s the kind of design worth celebrating: no ads, no traps, just tools that help you do the thing you already wanted to do.
⬖ Choosing care over clicks at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/han...
I used to argue with strangers online about movies neither of us liked. Now I save my arguments for truly noble causes — like whether pineapple belongs on pizza.
📌 Inner peace: now available without a subscription fee.
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📌 Inner peace: now available without a subscription fee.
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The Overlooked Power of Overlooking
How to keep your attention from getting pickpocketed.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I used to argue with strangers online about movies neither of us liked. Now I save my arguments for truly noble causes — like whether pineapple belongs on pizza.
📌 Inner peace: now available without a subscription fee.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/the-overlo...
📌 Inner peace: now available without a subscription fee.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/the-overlo...
What if home isn’t where you move to but where you finally look inward?
We keep thinking joy is hiding somewhere else: in a new city, a new job, a new version of ourselves. But peace doesn’t wait on a boarding pass. It starts the moment you decide to stop running.
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We keep thinking joy is hiding somewhere else: in a new city, a new job, a new version of ourselves. But peace doesn’t wait on a boarding pass. It starts the moment you decide to stop running.
bit.ly/4jTVv69
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August 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What if home isn’t where you move to but where you finally look inward?
We keep thinking joy is hiding somewhere else: in a new city, a new job, a new version of ourselves. But peace doesn’t wait on a boarding pass. It starts the moment you decide to stop running.
bit.ly/4jTVv69
We keep thinking joy is hiding somewhere else: in a new city, a new job, a new version of ourselves. But peace doesn’t wait on a boarding pass. It starts the moment you decide to stop running.
bit.ly/4jTVv69
New post is up. Four “totally scientific” reasons you might want to stop chasing applause. Side effects include more fun and fewer imaginary opponents.
📌 Recognition withdrawal never felt this good.
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📌 Recognition withdrawal never felt this good.
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You Probably Think This Post Is About You
Four pseudo-scientific reasons to stop performing for applause
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August 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New post is up. Four “totally scientific” reasons you might want to stop chasing applause. Side effects include more fun and fewer imaginary opponents.
📌 Recognition withdrawal never felt this good.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/you-probab...
📌 Recognition withdrawal never felt this good.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/you-probab...
This Week on Frequency of Reason:
Recognition isn’t nourishment. Restraint is underrated. Fate is just Tuesday on repeat.
Three essays this week — ideal for anyone who likes their wisdom with a side of self-deprecating chuckle.
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Recognition isn’t nourishment. Restraint is underrated. Fate is just Tuesday on repeat.
Three essays this week — ideal for anyone who likes their wisdom with a side of self-deprecating chuckle.
frequencyofreason.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This Week on Frequency of Reason:
Recognition isn’t nourishment. Restraint is underrated. Fate is just Tuesday on repeat.
Three essays this week — ideal for anyone who likes their wisdom with a side of self-deprecating chuckle.
frequencyofreason.substack.com
Recognition isn’t nourishment. Restraint is underrated. Fate is just Tuesday on repeat.
Three essays this week — ideal for anyone who likes their wisdom with a side of self-deprecating chuckle.
frequencyofreason.substack.com
The fewer things you demand, the more room you have to notice what’s already here.
The most radical thing you can do? Be content. In a world addicted to bigger, faster, shinier — settling into “enough” is rebellious.
⬖ Calculating satisfaction differently at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
The most radical thing you can do? Be content. In a world addicted to bigger, faster, shinier — settling into “enough” is rebellious.
⬖ Calculating satisfaction differently at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
August 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The fewer things you demand, the more room you have to notice what’s already here.
The most radical thing you can do? Be content. In a world addicted to bigger, faster, shinier — settling into “enough” is rebellious.
⬖ Calculating satisfaction differently at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
The most radical thing you can do? Be content. In a world addicted to bigger, faster, shinier — settling into “enough” is rebellious.
⬖ Calculating satisfaction differently at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
What if paperwork was just another genre of music?
The week opens with synth despair, builds on inbox percussion, sneaks in Friday pop choruses, and ends with a melody of hindsight. The cubicle isn’t silence — it’s a mixtape disguised as monotony.
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The week opens with synth despair, builds on inbox percussion, sneaks in Friday pop choruses, and ends with a melody of hindsight. The cubicle isn’t silence — it’s a mixtape disguised as monotony.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
Weekly playlist: The Bureaucrat’s Calendar
For those stuck in the loop from queue to déjà vu.
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August 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
What if paperwork was just another genre of music?
The week opens with synth despair, builds on inbox percussion, sneaks in Friday pop choruses, and ends with a melody of hindsight. The cubicle isn’t silence — it’s a mixtape disguised as monotony.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
The week opens with synth despair, builds on inbox percussion, sneaks in Friday pop choruses, and ends with a melody of hindsight. The cubicle isn’t silence — it’s a mixtape disguised as monotony.
frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
The messy sketch. The “bad” idea. The moment everyone else smirks and says that can’t possibly work.
That could be your gold vein. Because if it made sense to everyone, it would’ve been done already.
⬖ Embracing silliness as a path to freedom at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
That could be your gold vein. Because if it made sense to everyone, it would’ve been done already.
⬖ Embracing silliness as a path to freedom at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
August 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The messy sketch. The “bad” idea. The moment everyone else smirks and says that can’t possibly work.
That could be your gold vein. Because if it made sense to everyone, it would’ve been done already.
⬖ Embracing silliness as a path to freedom at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
That could be your gold vein. Because if it made sense to everyone, it would’ve been done already.
⬖ Embracing silliness as a path to freedom at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
Turns out the pot of gold was just a chamber pot.
Sure, it was exciting to find — until I lifted the lid. Some treasures are better left unfound. Because the trick isn’t finding gold; it’s not needing it in the first place.
📌 Most “prizes” are just packaging with good PR.
Sure, it was exciting to find — until I lifted the lid. Some treasures are better left unfound. Because the trick isn’t finding gold; it’s not needing it in the first place.
📌 Most “prizes” are just packaging with good PR.
August 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Turns out the pot of gold was just a chamber pot.
Sure, it was exciting to find — until I lifted the lid. Some treasures are better left unfound. Because the trick isn’t finding gold; it’s not needing it in the first place.
📌 Most “prizes” are just packaging with good PR.
Sure, it was exciting to find — until I lifted the lid. Some treasures are better left unfound. Because the trick isn’t finding gold; it’s not needing it in the first place.
📌 Most “prizes” are just packaging with good PR.
The smile the internet couldn’t let go.
One man. One photo shoot. And a twist that turned a polite grin into something unforgettable.
⬖ Meeting the man behind the meme at Frequency of Reason: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/how-to-ste...
One man. One photo shoot. And a twist that turned a polite grin into something unforgettable.
⬖ Meeting the man behind the meme at Frequency of Reason: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/how-to-ste...
How to Steer a Joke in Your Favor
Lessons from the world’s most famous polite smile.
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August 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The smile the internet couldn’t let go.
One man. One photo shoot. And a twist that turned a polite grin into something unforgettable.
⬖ Meeting the man behind the meme at Frequency of Reason: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/how-to-ste...
One man. One photo shoot. And a twist that turned a polite grin into something unforgettable.
⬖ Meeting the man behind the meme at Frequency of Reason: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/how-to-ste...
The world doesn’t stabilize first. We do.
Headlines scream. Feeds spin. Everything feels urgent because it’s designed to. But calm isn’t a gift you wait for — it’s a choice you make, on purpose, even when the world’s on fire.
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Headlines scream. Feeds spin. Everything feels urgent because it’s designed to. But calm isn’t a gift you wait for — it’s a choice you make, on purpose, even when the world’s on fire.
See more stories: frequencyofreason.substack.com/archive
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August 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The world doesn’t stabilize first. We do.
Headlines scream. Feeds spin. Everything feels urgent because it’s designed to. But calm isn’t a gift you wait for — it’s a choice you make, on purpose, even when the world’s on fire.
See more stories: frequencyofreason.substack.com/archive
Headlines scream. Feeds spin. Everything feels urgent because it’s designed to. But calm isn’t a gift you wait for — it’s a choice you make, on purpose, even when the world’s on fire.
See more stories: frequencyofreason.substack.com/archive
Self-compassion without self-honesty is sedation, not healing.
Being gentle with yourself is important — but if you’re just patting your own back while standing in quicksand, you’re not getting anywhere.
⬖ Pairing mercy with mirrors at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
Being gentle with yourself is important — but if you’re just patting your own back while standing in quicksand, you’re not getting anywhere.
⬖ Pairing mercy with mirrors at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
August 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Self-compassion without self-honesty is sedation, not healing.
Being gentle with yourself is important — but if you’re just patting your own back while standing in quicksand, you’re not getting anywhere.
⬖ Pairing mercy with mirrors at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
Being gentle with yourself is important — but if you’re just patting your own back while standing in quicksand, you’re not getting anywhere.
⬖ Pairing mercy with mirrors at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
We treat time like a three-course meal: nostalgia for the appetizer, big dreams for dessert, and the present as the sad salad we push around the plate.
But what if the past and future were just marketing gimmicks?
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/time-is-a-...
But what if the past and future were just marketing gimmicks?
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/time-is-a-...
August 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We treat time like a three-course meal: nostalgia for the appetizer, big dreams for dessert, and the present as the sad salad we push around the plate.
But what if the past and future were just marketing gimmicks?
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/time-is-a-...
But what if the past and future were just marketing gimmicks?
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/time-is-a-...
It starts small: a nod here, a laugh there.
Before you know it, you’re defending a cause you couldn’t define yesterday, like you’ve been campaigning for it your whole life.
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Before you know it, you’re defending a cause you couldn’t define yesterday, like you’ve been campaigning for it your whole life.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/the-100-al...
August 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It starts small: a nod here, a laugh there.
Before you know it, you’re defending a cause you couldn’t define yesterday, like you’ve been campaigning for it your whole life.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/the-100-al...
Before you know it, you’re defending a cause you couldn’t define yesterday, like you’ve been campaigning for it your whole life.
Check out the whole story: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/the-100-al...
This week on Frequency of Reason: we dodge cult recruiters, fire both the past and future, and watch a man turn the internet’s cruelest punchline into his own standing ovation.
You can also browse the archives at: frequencyofreason.substack.com/archive
You can also browse the archives at: frequencyofreason.substack.com/archive
August 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This week on Frequency of Reason: we dodge cult recruiters, fire both the past and future, and watch a man turn the internet’s cruelest punchline into his own standing ovation.
You can also browse the archives at: frequencyofreason.substack.com/archive
You can also browse the archives at: frequencyofreason.substack.com/archive
You signed up for knowledge and wound up with extra credit in confusion. This is for those who know the real curriculum hides between the lines — and sometimes, the smartest move is to ditch class and dance in the hallways.
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Check out the playlist: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
August 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You signed up for knowledge and wound up with extra credit in confusion. This is for those who know the real curriculum hides between the lines — and sometimes, the smartest move is to ditch class and dance in the hallways.
Check out the playlist: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
Check out the playlist: frequencyofreason.substack.com/p/weekly-pla...
Forget drab and grey — this Dutch social housing project looks like Wes Anderson got a government grant.
⬖ Painting hope in pastels at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/dut...
⬖ Painting hope in pastels at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/dut...
This affordable housing project looks like it came straight out of a Wes Anderson movie
Volante, a new social housing scheme in the Netherlands, flips the script on affordable homes.
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August 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Forget drab and grey — this Dutch social housing project looks like Wes Anderson got a government grant.
⬖ Painting hope in pastels at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/dut...
⬖ Painting hope in pastels at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/dut...
Two thousand years later, Seneca still knows what’s eating you.
It’s a reminder that half the stress is self-inflicted — built from rehearsing disasters that never arrive.
Most monsters vanish when you turn on the light of reality.
⬖ Retiring needless fears at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
It’s a reminder that half the stress is self-inflicted — built from rehearsing disasters that never arrive.
Most monsters vanish when you turn on the light of reality.
⬖ Retiring needless fears at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
August 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Two thousand years later, Seneca still knows what’s eating you.
It’s a reminder that half the stress is self-inflicted — built from rehearsing disasters that never arrive.
Most monsters vanish when you turn on the light of reality.
⬖ Retiring needless fears at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
It’s a reminder that half the stress is self-inflicted — built from rehearsing disasters that never arrive.
Most monsters vanish when you turn on the light of reality.
⬖ Retiring needless fears at Frequency of Reason: bit.ly/4jTVv69
Imagine if every writer or artist used the same outline and the same blind spots. That’s basically AI today — a single recipe for creativity, reheated until it tastes like cardboard. A new approach says it’s time for AI to work the way humans do...
www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/alan-tu...
www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/alan-tu...
Alan Turing Institute: Humanities are key to the future of AI
A powerhouse team has launched a new initiative called ‘Doing AI Differently,’ which calls for a human-centred approach to future development.
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August 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Imagine if every writer or artist used the same outline and the same blind spots. That’s basically AI today — a single recipe for creativity, reheated until it tastes like cardboard. A new approach says it’s time for AI to work the way humans do...
www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/alan-tu...
www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/alan-tu...