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JKNThe entire <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> industry is based on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/magicalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magicalthinking</a>. Heck, most consumers today don't even care how cars, computers, or phones work. It's in the interest of corporations that consumers have no clue how anything works. Just pay more money to keep the magic flowing.

DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠MechanicMAGA and the Republican party is based more on fantasy and magical thinking rather than reality.They will contort themselves to believe the lies, gaslighting and machinations to be true, and in their minds, it will become so.Donald Trump is literally the emperor with new clothes.<a href="https://vmst.io/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maga</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/magic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magic</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/magicalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magicalthinking</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/gaslighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaslighting</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Emperors-Clothes-Illustrated-Christian-Andersen-ebook/dp/B0BLHXSJ2W" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Emperors-Clothes-Illustrated-Christian-Andersen-ebook/dp/B0BLHXSJ2W</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®Common examples of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a> in adults include:Superstitions •Believing in lucky numbers or avoiding unlucky ones, such as 13. •Crossing fingers or touching wood to prevent bad luck. •Carrying lucky objects, like a rabbit’s foot or a mascot. •Avoiding commitments on Friday the 13th.

AnthonyIt's amazing there are still people who believe that AI models that can't count how many times the letter 'r' appears in the word "strawberry", or that advise people to use glue to keep the cheese on a pizza--despite being trained on a sizable fraction of English-language knowledge--are going to "do science" or "solve physics" or "figure out climate change". I'm all for challenging received wisdom and assumptions, and I think magical thinking can be quite good if practiced well. But this is something else. To me this feels like the celebration of a dangerous kind of induced ignorance. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=delusions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#delusions</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=magicalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®Glad we’re all on the same page, when it comes to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a> <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/12/tis-clear-what-is-lacking/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/12/tis-clear-what-is-lacking/</a>

Markus Feilner (has moved)Wonderful explanation how the brain's structure and <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/magicalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magicalthinking</a> made the success of <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> possible (among many other things) <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-sacrificing-chickens-properly-why-magical-thinking-is-both-the-problem-and-the-solution" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-sacrificing-chickens-properly-why-magical-thinking-is-both-the-problem-and-the-solution</a>

Dave UnderwoodThe Canadian pop singer Shawn Mendes wrote again and again in his journal "I will sell out the Rogers Center". He was doing something called manifesting, which has taken off on Tiktok. But what exactly is it? I investigate:<a href="https://oblivionwithbells.com/2024/10/19/thoughts-and-prayers-is-really-just-thoughts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://oblivionwithbells.com/2024/10/19/thoughts-and-prayers-is-really-just-thoughts/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manifesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manifesting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/magicalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magicalthinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/manifestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manifestation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prayer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Faith</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Belief</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#God</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jesus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExChristian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExChristian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Exvangelical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Exvangelical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostChristian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostChristian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostChristianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostChristianity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Doubt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doubt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Praying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Praying</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deconversion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deconversion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deconstruction</a>

Dave UnderwoodReading up about manifestation & magical thinking today made me think about "thoughts & prayers". So I wrote a blog post about it:<a href="https://oblivionwithbells.com/2024/10/19/thoughts-and-prayers-is-really-just-thoughts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://oblivionwithbells.com/2024/10/19/thoughts-and-prayers-is-really-just-thoughts/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExChristian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExChristian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostChristianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostChristianity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postChristian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postChristian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Exvangelical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Exvangelical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prayer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lawofattraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lawofattraction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#belief</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/superstition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#superstition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/magicalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magicalthinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/positivethinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#positivethinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/positivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#positivity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christianity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#faith</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/manifestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manifestation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newagethinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newagethinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/luckygirlSyndrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luckygirlSyndrome</a>

Richard R Lee<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JunkScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JunkScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MIT</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GriftersGonnaGrift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GriftersGonnaGrift</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@inkican" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@inkican</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@inthehands</a> Consensus is the majority set of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a> <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/19/define-normal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/19/define-normal/</a>

Mad A. Argon :qurio:And this happened... I accidentally left my <a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/yubikey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yubikey</a> (this one on dogtag chain I always had on me) in friend's house :blobcatsad2: Now I really feel naked or like I sudenly lost my weapon or my "magic powers". Have to take it back soon because it's very uncomfortable even if technically I have enough backup configurations to use other <a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/yubikeys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yubikeys</a> to access my things (all my devices/accounts are strongly dependent on yubikeys so I made good backups from the beginning).<a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/amulet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amulet</a> <a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/talisman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#talisman</a> <a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a>

Doug BostromUh-oh."Karataş and Cutright (1) present eight experiments (N = 2,462) suggesting that “God salience” (i.e., thinking about God) increases people’s willingness to rely on guidance from AI. The authors claim a consistent effect across decision domains and additionally report that these effects emerge for religious believers and nonbelievers alike."<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2402315121#body-ref-r1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2402315121#body-ref-r1</a>

Thomas Fricke (he/him)<a href="https://chaos.social/@frederic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@frederic</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/@HonkHase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@HonkHase</a> Ridicoulus arguments like <a href="https://23.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> will create the documents for the <a href="https://23.social/tags/nuclearpowerplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclearpowerplants</a> or detect how to build <a href="https://23.social/tags/nuclearfusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclearfusion</a> are <a href="https://23.social/tags/magicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magicalThinking</a> are mentioned often to overwhelm the public audience and occupy the discussion

Nigel Small"No-one should have to worry about memory management. That should be handled by the language."Because languages clearly evolve out of the ether, perfectly formed. Compilers aren't written by humans, they just exist as a part of nature.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CrowdStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrowdStrike</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MemoryManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MemoryManagement</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a>

Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhDThe level of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/magicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magicalThinking</a> induced by the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> is bizarre. Marvel Universe level and beyond. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a>

_noelamac_<a href="https://mastodon.world/@davidho" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@davidho</a> But sustainability officers of major corporations love their message: „You can keep on with business as usual. We‘ll clean up your mess afterwards. In the future, of course, not yet. We need some financing though. Trust us. Sleep well.“<a href="https://spore.social/tags/carboncapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carboncapture</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ccs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ccs</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/magicalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#magicalthinking</a>

Mad A. Argon :qurio:Some time ago I watched low budget horror movie. Not very mainstream one, I don't even remember title yet. Main character involuntarily became kind of undead and had to wear some magic <a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/amulet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amulet</a>. When she was taking it off, she was closer to afterlife dimension and eventually really dead, even if in reversible way.Currently I feel in similar way after 5 years of wearing one of my <a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/Yubikeys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yubikeys</a> on my neck on dogtag chain. I have it on me really most of time, also when I sleep (not when I wash myself, it would be inconvenient even if it's waterproof). Sometimes I take it off, even for few hours (very rarely) but then it is always few meters from me. And then I feel like I lose connection with some "higher force", source of my "special powers" (or source of my identity? my soul?) or something and it's rather uncomfortable.So it seems like cryptography and privacy obsession turned me into a <a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/lich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lich</a> :blobcatghost: 💀🧟‍♀️<a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/yubikey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yubikey</a> <a href="https://is-a.cat/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a>

AMonkeyInSilk 🇺🇦🇵🇸No details. No budget. No costings. No consultation with communities. No support from business or industry. No support from states and territories. No experience or expertise in Australia. No existing place to store the nuclear waste. No viable small modular reactors in existence. No plan on where nuclear waste will be stored. No legislative support at commonwealth or state level. No geological surveys or environmental impact statements. No information on how much electricity would be produced. No forecasts on how much the electricity produced will cost. No information on supply chain resilience and maintenance integrity. No information on emergency management, hazard mitigation or security. No meaningful action on climate change while the nuclear plants are being built. No information on how much the nuclear industry will be subsidised by government.IF YOU DONT KNOW, VOTE NO<a href="https://theblower.au/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/ifyoudontknowvoteno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ifyoudontknowvoteno</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/nuclearenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclearenergy</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/nuclearpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclearpower</a><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-23/coalition-wont-reveal-nuclear-power-generation-before-election/104012212" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-23/coalition-wont-reveal-nuclear-power-generation-before-election/104012212</a>

AMonkeyInSilk 🇺🇦🇵🇸Peter Dutton and the Seven Lies.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/20/does-the-coalitions-case-for-nuclear-power-stack-up-we-factcheck-seven-key-claims?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/20/does-the-coalitions-case-for-nuclear-power-stack-up-we-factcheck-seven-key-claims?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/nuclearenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclearenergy</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a>

skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard:<a href="https://aus.social/@Qldaah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Qldaah</a> he doesn't have a plan, he has vibes and a hope that a Bud Tingwell will rock-up to save his bacon. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MagicalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicalThinking</a>

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