Greetings everyone,
Forgive my absence last week — it is a busy time for me right now. I am thinking once the school year comes to an end, I can reevaluate the newsletter strategy and try to make 2024 the best year yet. Then again, I say this every year.
In the meantime, enjoy my commentary on narcissism.
This week’s newsletter at a glance:
Vocabulary of a narcissist
Saturday mornings
AI Abstracts
Enjoy!
A great man is always willing to be little.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
✏️ Vocabulary of a Narcissist
What makes a good leader — a good partner, a good colleague, a good friend?
Such people are characterized by their commitment to the collective good, and their willingness to fight their natural desires and instincts in order to do what is best for the group.
Recently, I have been more aware of the importance of words. Words are powerful — once spoken, there are no backspaces, or corrections to be issued. Words are often all we have to connect with others.
Two of the most dangerous words are ‘I’ and ‘me’. Each one of us is living an experience that is unrelatable — no one will ever be able to fully understand how you feel in a given moment, or how the events of your life have shaped you and calibrated the lens by which you see the world. We can relate, and empathize, but never truly understand. Between their two ears, everyone experiences a different reality. Yet without working together, becoming ‘we’, there is no survival of the individual. When we use words like ‘I’ or ‘me’, we bring to life the vast valley that exists between us and the world. Such words diminish the experience of the other, and the importance of ‘we’, in favour of one’s own experience and needs. This is a tendency is natural — we are programmed for our own survival and comfort. But great cities cannot be built by individuals, and children cannot be raised by mothers alone. It takes a community — we should all fight that impulse in us.
scientia et labor
knowledge and work
💡 Food for Thought
Don't live for Friday nights, live for Saturday mornings.
🔗 Sunday Best
The Functions of Definitions in Science
Citation: Caws, Peter. "The functions of definition in science." Philosophy of Science 26.3 (1959): 201-239.
Definition is one of the most crucial issues in any science; an improper understanding of it can vitiate the success of the whole enterprise, not because valid theorems will fail to appear (for definition can be practised even when not understood) but because their import will not be grasped.
A Study on Distinguishing ChatGPT-Generated and Human-Written Orthopaedic Abstracts by Reviewers: Decoding the Discrepancies
Citation: Makiev K G, Asimakidou M, Vasios I S, et al. (November 21, 2023) A Study on Distinguishing ChatGPT-Generated and Human-Written Orthopaedic Abstracts by Reviewers: Decoding the Discrepancies. Cureus 15(11): e49166.
The most important finding of the current study is that neither the reviewers nor the AI detector programs were reliable in identifying correctly the authors of the abstracts included in the study. Additionally, neither expertise nor research background was shown to have any meaningful impact on the outcome.
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1918)
Thanks for reading!
See you next week.
AT