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The end of this spiral of rage and blame begins with one person who refuses to indulge these destructive, seductive impulses.
So Dr. Z's "Lucifer Effect," although it focuses on evil, really is a celebration of the human mind's infinite capacity to make any of us kind or cruel, caring or indifferent, creative or destructive, and it makes some of us villains.
But maybe taking the mindset that those applications are actually coworkers could help them to decide when and how to retire those applications in the way that would be least destructive to the rest of the team.
And knowing what we know about the destructive power of cigarettes, we continue to allow our children, our sons and daughters, to be in the presence of the influences that start them smoking.
But algorithms can go wrong, even have deeply destructive effects with good intentions.
When they're secret, important and destructive, I've coined a term for these algorithms: "weapons of math destruction."
To create their destructive blast, these weapons harness the power of nuclear fission– in which an atom’s nucleus is split in two.
But I found that the problems of psychology seemed to be parallel to the problems of technology, entertainment and design in the following way: we all know that technology, entertainment and design have been and can be used for destructive purposes.
When every single plate had shattered into thousands of pieces on the hill below, she walked back in and she said to me, cheerfully, "How was your day?" (Laughter) Now you can see how a child would look at an incident like this and think that anger is silent, isolating, destructive, even frightening.
During this chapter one, there was a high level of public awareness about the potential of nuclear catastrophe, and an indelible image was implanted in our collective minds that, in fact, a nuclear holocaust would be absolutely globally destructive and could, in some ways, mean the end of civilization as we know it.
As you've probably noticed, in recent years, a lot of western forests have burned in large and destructive wildfires.
Instead of defining perfectionism as a destructive intolerance for failure, why don't we try giving it a new definition?
Pyramid schemes can be incredibly destructive to individuals, communities, and even entire countries.
Or the blind, idiot god Azathoth, whose destructive impulses are stalled only by the “maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.”
Black holes are among the most destructive objects in the universe.
Still wary of the monk, but also remembering Bai Su Zhen’s destructive act, Xu Xian accepted the gift.
The odds of winning this destructive genetic lottery increase over time, or if the new species is closely related to the virus’ usual host.
This definition of beauty is damaging, dangerous and destructive, and we need to explode it immediately.
AI can be really destructive and not know it.
And they didn't stop there: within five years, they'd secured legal rights from the state to manage over 200 square miles of ocean, eliminating destructive industrial trawlers from the waters.
Or I can expose the animal to a completely meaningless and destructive sound.
Because in any population of a million people, there will always be some who would, for whatever reason, choose to use that destructive power.
So a Type-1 vulnerability, again, this massive, destructive power, it's a fairly weak assumption to think that in a population of millions of people there would be some that would choose to use it destructively.
They mustn't perpetuate the destructive legacies of the oil age.
It's very destructive, but it also catalyzes the production of vitamin D in the skin, vitamin D being a molecule that we very much need for our strong bones, the health of our immune system, and myriad other important functions in our bodies.
And when that vapor bubble collapses, it emits sound, light and heat, and it's a very destructive process.
We live in a world filled with destructive technology, and this technology cannot be uninvented; it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.
Forty years later, this group, more than most, are well aware of the destructive power that our species can wield over our environment.
This destructive power takes many different forms.
Most recently, we've been tragically reminded of the destructive power of nature itself with the recent earthquake in Haiti.
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