Psychologist and computerscientist Geoffrey Hinton, called the godfather of AI, argued that we should stop with A(G)I. In this column it is argued that Artificial General Intelligence like ChatGPT works very differently than organic intelligence. An organic complexity works like a chain reaction. Unlike …

It is argued that in our world there are many "pessimists", who do not believe that climate, environmental and natural disasters can still be averted, and therefore want to live today as if there was no tomorrow. And if you have nothing more to expect, why should you also let the pleasures of today be …

Even journalists and academics sometimes employ dichotomies that fall short almost immediately. An example is the prophets and wizards dichotomy. Populism with a scientific twist, which apparently makes sense and appeals to our gut feeling. A golden formula, with an implicit logical appeal to dialectics, …

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Als je het maatschappelijke debat over bedrijventerreinen volgt, vraag je je soms af of deze gebieden überhaupt een bredere waarde hebben. Bedrijventerreinen worden verbonden met typeringen als verdozing en hebben het uiterlijk van blokkendozen. Ze komen over als anonieme en verweesde landschappen. Het …

A tenet of behavioural change that almost every academic adheres to, is to do not name the bad behaviour but indicate how to perform the good behaviour. Three quartersto the left is one quarter to the right. However, being allowed to give instructions only in left (or, conversely, only in right) often …

It is argued that a world can exist in which man is not a plague, in which we do not take away all diversity with cheap copy-paste mass production to worship a system world that makes everything uniform everywhere and in which we wrongly believe that we are working to establish heaven on earth. Optimists …

What happens if there is a business that is strictly online, is available in multiple countries, therefore facing more competition, while having only one location for their office? This is how YourSurprise operates. Active in 28 countries, delivering almost to the whole world and having multiple websites. …