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Let’s jump out of the vicious cycle of the drama triangle for a while, and let’s look at what is really the opposite of victimhood mentality. Because it’s not being the rescuer. It’s hyper-independence. And our culture has inadvertently engineered two completely separate, mutually exclusive worlds of human behaviour, based on those two extremes. On...
I’ve been recently studying criminal profiling to upskill my court-expert practice. I get material to study, to do homework, material to practise, obviously – like any other student at any other school. I also research stuff on my own – and you can see the results on this website, in the whole ‘Writing’ section. What...
When I say the “in-between state”, what comes to your mind? Is it the moment between living and dying? Is it that pause when you finish one project and the next is yet to start? Does this state cause anxiety for you? Is the uncertainty unpleasant and difficult, or is the state nourishing? For me,...
We often think that vulnerability sharing and uncovering the hidden (or not-so-hidden) traumas of our lives are what make us closer to each other. Getting into the dark stuff and the sad stories of the past or of the present is the right way to bond. So we often treat relationships as places to vent...
If I told you that the same mechanisms in language that signal deception in interrogation in official business documents and business talk have the capacity to signal competence and authority, would it be a surprise? Because it’s not really a true contradiction. Different situations demand different approaches. In business, it all comes down to convincing...
A while back, I was working on a criminal case from the 90s where someone disguised their car radio so it looked like nothing more than a few loose wires coming out of empty space (that had been long before the front panels became removable; if that doesn’t tell you much, it was very long...
Let me tell you a story about recruitment. Once upon a time, when a job ad was posted, one had to wait a few weeks until there were enough resumes to start the interviews. But over the years, the funnel got filled quicker and quicker. At some point, the number of resumes coming in was...
Usually, we think of grammar as just the invisible seams in a sentence. It’s just the list of some arbitrary rules that keep nouns and verbs functioning so we can convey meaning. But what if grammar actually has a social side, a side that alters how we judge human character? What if we are to...
This is what VIKI says in “I, Robot”. The very same VIKI that turned out to be too objective. We used to think that we may not like AI because it will lack emotions. But what if the reason was actually different? What if it was not about emotions but signalling and social standards that...
It was likely unavoidable to have sycophancy in model behaviour. But just like with the Spanish Inquisition, no one really expected it to happen and to hit us that hard. When the whole boom on AI started, we likely had no idea how much our own (often not entirely conscious) behaviour would impact the models....
The great paradox of the modern human condition is that we build our entire societal narrative around the triumph of the independent will, at least in the Western world. Yet, when we are confronted with the actual lived experience of absolute freedom, the human psyche often just pushes the panic button. What do we do...
The world of myths about AI is similar to Scheherazade’s stories; if written down, the book of those would likely also be enough for 1001 nights, offering almost 3 years of captivating, yet fictitious, tales. The myth that infuriates me the most is the one about linguistic analysis and deception detection done by… a generic...
Many years ago, when I was still playing with studio photography, I created a series of colour photographs called ‘Fairytale gone bad’. There was a picture of Cinderella walking out of the ‘Lost and Found’ with the second glass slipper. There was one of Rapunzel with her hair cut short and her long braid lying...
I got excited when I heard about XAI. Really. After all, it is the way to look into the decision-making process of a machine. At least that’s the idea. Or that was the idea… When I started to read about it a bit more, what struck me was that the true explainability is still limited...
Imagine you’re back at school. You have a very demanding teacher who is never entirely happy with what you deliver. You try and try, learn and learn but you never get 100%. It seems like there is no pattern in how much knowledge you have vs the grades you get. The patterns seem to be,...
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