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Geoff Tomaino

People Don’t Want to Argue with AI, and That Makes Them More Persuaded by It

When people believe they are talking to an AI rather than a person, they push back less and change their minds more. The persuasive edge comes from the listener, not the machine.

From people to prompts

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Evan Chaloupka

In disability fiction, distance lends us not only drama, but intimacy.

Today's screens are full of minds that think and perceive differently, which makes this the right moment to look back at how twentieth-century American writers drew readers toward cognitive disability. Their tools were narration, vision and time, and a kind of intimacy that does not depend on getting inside a character's head. One of the most-read novellas in American schools shows how repetition itself becomes the foundation of the story.

Engaging Minds: Cognitive Disability and American Storytelling, 1899–1953

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From the archive ·
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Technosystem

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Technosystem should be read as a attempt to link up several different traditions of social thought in an innovative theory of modernity. The big question to which Technosystem is addressed...
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