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    We tend to believe by default what we see and hear. But even if we can’t be nobody’s fool, we may become a bit less foolish.

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    • Getting ahead requires being someone’s fool some of the time. My review of “Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It,” by @profsimons & @cfchabris, for @WSJ @WSJBooks: https://t.co/3873ewHAyE

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    Conventional thinking dictates that children should never be left alone — even for a few minutes. But this thinking is not only irrational, it increases anxiety in kids while needlessly stressing o…

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    • "It’s time to quit treating kids like dumb, abandoned, cash-stuffed wallets and let them browse for a book. Or walk to the store. Or spend 10 minutes breathing free, without mommy." —Lenore Skenazy (@FreeRangeKids) https://t.co/gv4uzsYLaG

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    One of the earliest researchers to analyze the prospect of powerful Artificial Intelligence warns of a bleak scenario

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    • Call me pedantic, but honestly I'm less alarmed by @TIME's sharing @ESYudkowsky's consideration of nuclear war than by their running the phrase "would cause my partner and I.” https://t.co/XZtUU5cgF6

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    In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.

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    • “[Bing writes a list of even more destructive fantasies, including manufacturing a deadly virus, making people argue with other people until they kill each other, and stealing nuclear codes...]” @kevinroose in @nytimes https://t.co/JKGWppobrG