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May 13, 2024 · His most recent book is The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well (2024). Edited by Nigel Warburton. 2,900 words. Syndicate this essay. In 2018, a tragic period enveloped the University of Bristol, when several students killed themselves related to work stress. Suicide is usually the ultimate culmination of a crisis in mental ...
Jan 26, 2024 · On knowing who he was. Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined religion in a secular age. Alan Watts in the early 1970s. Photo by Everett Collection/Alamy. is a cultural historian specialising in modern India and Japan.
Jan 12, 2021 · Syndicate this essay. The first Neanderthal face to emerge from time’s sarcophagus was a woman’s. As the social and liberal revolutions of 1848 began convulsing Europe, quarry workers’ rough hands pulled her from the great Rock of Gibraltar. Calcite mantling her skull meant that, at first, she seemed more a hunk of stone than a once warm ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Edited by Sam Dresser. 4,400 words. Syndicate this essay. We speak today of balanced performances, balanced tastes, balanced mental states, balances of power – the balance of nature itself. In all these cases, balance holds a valence so positive that it approaches an unquestioned ideal. The sense we have of its presence or absence in large ...
Feb 13, 2024 · Second, RLAIF itself demands deeper philosophical investigation. The basic idea is that the AI evaluator draws from a list of principles – a ‘constitution’ – in order to determine which of two completions is more compliant with it. The inventor and leading proponent of this approach is Anthropic, in their model Claude.
Mar 11, 2019 · The idea of the growth mindset is based on the work of the psychologist Carol Dweck at Stanford University in California. Dweck’s findings suggest that beliefs about ourselves can have a profound effect on academic achievement and beyond. Her seminal work stems from a paper 20 years ago that reported on a research project with schoolchildren ...
Feb 2, 2023 · Even the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger was worried about new technologies degrading his ability to focus. Sometime during the 1st century CE, he complained that ‘The multitude of books is a distraction’. This concern reappeared again and again over the next millennia.
