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Some of these ideas caught fire — but not in the ways their creators hoped.
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Aeon+Psyche
Dreams are a precious resource. Don’t let advertisers hack them
Aeon+Psyche
~13 min read · 2021-11-19 · Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation
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Futurism
MIT scientists are building devices to hack your dreams
Futurism
2 min read · From 2020
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The New York Times
Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
The New York Times
9 min read · From 2018 · Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.
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Inverse
Dreams Might be Warning Us About Our Brain Health
Inverse
2 min read · From 2020 · This scientist says dream disorders could be a sign of future disease.
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Science Magazine
Scientists entered people’s dreams and got them ‘talking’
Science Magazine
4 min read · 2021-02-18 · Dreaming experiments involved real-time conversations between sleepers and scientists
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The New York Times
For Creators, Everything is for Sale
The New York Times
7 min read · 2021-03-10 · Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money. Yet fans still hold the power.
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MIT Technology Review
There’s a big problem with AI: even its creators can’t explain how it works
MIT Technology Review
~15 min read · From 2017 · No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.
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Brain Pickings
Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe
Brain Pickings
~11 min read · 2021-12-14 · “Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state.”
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Aeon+Psyche
Why don’t we feel pain in dreams? The answer might lie in a new frontier of neuroscience
Aeon+Psyche
2 min read · 2020-08-11 · Why we don’t feel pain in dreams, and other brain puzzles that neuronal assemblies might help neuroscientists unlock
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