David Gurteen
@davidgurteen.bsky.social
My interests include curiosity, care, conversation, dialogue, responsibility, leadership, critical thinking, knowledge, science, cosmology, evolution, philosophy, complexity, innovation, diversity, and humanity.
How to check if an argument is valid | Psyche Guides buff.ly/CDs3LIc
How to check if an argument is valid | Psyche Guides
In logic, validity is prime. If you want to make valid arguments, or sniff out invalid ones, here’s what you need to do
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September 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
How to check if an argument is valid | Psyche Guides buff.ly/CDs3LIc
Why GPT-5 Fails: Science Proves AGI is a Myth buff.ly/x7l6fAY
Why GPT-5 Fails: Science Proves AGI is a Myth
With OpenAI's recent release of ChatGPT 5, it seems more and more evident that AI advancement is slowing down. But the reason behind that is more than just technical hurdles like hardware, algorithm,…
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August 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Why GPT-5 Fails: Science Proves AGI is a Myth buff.ly/x7l6fAY
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Teaching Dialogic Intelligence with AI open.substack.com/pub/rupertwe... #ai #intelligence #education #teaching #learning #RupertWegerif #ConversationalLeadership
Teaching Dialogic Intelligence with AI
Recent studies split almost 50-50.
open.substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Teaching Dialogic Intelligence with AI open.substack.com/pub/rupertwe... #ai #intelligence #education #teaching #learning #RupertWegerif #ConversationalLeadership
Leadership often centres on individuals, but communityship values shared responsibility, nurturing relationships, and collective contribution to the growth and well-being of all.
buff.ly/2aFN4wQ #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #community #communityship
buff.ly/2aFN4wQ #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #community #communityship
What Is Communityship? | Conversational Leadership
Communityship is a practice where community members take responsibility for that community's growth and development.
conversational-leadership.net
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Leadership often centres on individuals, but communityship values shared responsibility, nurturing relationships, and collective contribution to the growth and well-being of all.
buff.ly/2aFN4wQ #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #community #communityship
buff.ly/2aFN4wQ #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #community #communityship
What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT? Chatbots have been criticized as perfect plagiarism tools. The truth is more surprising. buff.ly/SmkLC3u #chatgpt #ai #genai #writing #km #kmers
What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?
Chatbots have been criticized as perfect plagiarism tools. The truth is more surprising.
www.newyorker.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This article argues that AI safety based on “human values” is risky since values shift, conflict, and aren’t always good; better models of motivation or capability limits may be safer.
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngqvnW...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatGPT #OpenAI #GenAI #AGI #km #kmers #values
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngqvnW...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatGPT #OpenAI #GenAI #AGI #km #kmers #values
AI Alignment Problem:
“Human Values” don’t Actually Exist — LessWrong
Previous posts in the series: “What AI Safety Researchers Have Written About the Nature of Human Values”, Possible Dangers of the Unrestricted Value…
www.lesswrong.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This article argues that AI safety based on “human values” is risky since values shift, conflict, and aren’t always good; better models of motivation or capability limits may be safer.
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngqvnW...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatGPT #OpenAI #GenAI #AGI #km #kmers #values
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngqvnW...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatGPT #OpenAI #GenAI #AGI #km #kmers #values
Issue 302 of my Knowledge Letter is out. I explore hidden habits, fragile ideas, schismogenesis, and the choice between conversation and conflict. Plus, a quick experiment with summarizing audio. #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers
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Gurteen Knowledge Letter August 2025 | Conversational Leadership
Gurteen Knowledge Letter August 2025
conversational-leadership.net
July 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Issue 302 of my Knowledge Letter is out. I explore hidden habits, fragile ideas, schismogenesis, and the choice between conversation and conflict. Plus, a quick experiment with summarizing audio. #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers
conversational-leadership.net/newsletter/i...
conversational-leadership.net/newsletter/i...
Social media supercharged our disagreements. Could AI help us resolve them? buff.ly/P5zHGcU #ai #polarization #disagreement #ConversationalLeadership #socialmedia
Social media supercharged our disagreements. Could AI help us resolve them?
Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.
bigthink.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Social media supercharged our disagreements. Could AI help us resolve them? buff.ly/P5zHGcU #ai #polarization #disagreement #ConversationalLeadership #socialmedia
Explore Batesonian Information: Understanding information as difference that makes a difference, shaped by context, relationships, and meaning. #information #complexity #GregoryBateson #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers
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Batesonian Information | Conversational Leadership
We often treat information as something that can be stored, sent, or delivered. But if nothing changes, and there is no shift in perception or behavior, has any information really been shared? Gregory...
conversational-leadership.net
July 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Explore Batesonian Information: Understanding information as difference that makes a difference, shaped by context, relationships, and meaning. #information #complexity #GregoryBateson #ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers
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Curious about "warm data"? This blook post explains Nora Bateson's concept clearly. It highlights how warm data reveals the context, relationships, and patterns that cold data often misses. conversational-leadership.net/warm-data/ #warmdata #complexity #information
Warm Data | Conversational Leadership
We live in overlapping layers of meaning: personal, cultural, emotional, and historical. The challenge is that most data ignores this complexity, offering facts without context. Warm data provides a d...
conversational-leadership.net
July 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Curious about "warm data"? This blook post explains Nora Bateson's concept clearly. It highlights how warm data reveals the context, relationships, and patterns that cold data often misses. conversational-leadership.net/warm-data/ #warmdata #complexity #information
The single most amazing fact about the Universe: No matter what it is that we discover about reality, the fact that reality itself can be understood remains the most amazing fact of all. buff.ly/IRjDOCg #science #universe #reality #physics
The single most amazing fact about the Universe
No matter what it is that we discover about reality, the fact that reality itself can be understood remains the most amazing fact of all.
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July 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The single most amazing fact about the Universe: No matter what it is that we discover about reality, the fact that reality itself can be understood remains the most amazing fact of all. buff.ly/IRjDOCg #science #universe #reality #physics
Reposted by David Gurteen
Smartphone bans in Dutch schools are showing results:
75% see improved student focus
60% better social climate
1 in 3 higher academic performance
Looking long term, maybe the real win isn’t better grades—
It’s raising kids who can focus and connect.
#FutureOfWork
www.reuters.com/technology/s...
75% see improved student focus
60% better social climate
1 in 3 higher academic performance
Looking long term, maybe the real win isn’t better grades—
It’s raising kids who can focus and connect.
#FutureOfWork
www.reuters.com/technology/s...
Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus
A ban on mobile phones and other electronic devices in Dutch schools has improved focus among students, a study commissioned by the Dutch government found.
www.reuters.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Smartphone bans in Dutch schools are showing results:
75% see improved student focus
60% better social climate
1 in 3 higher academic performance
Looking long term, maybe the real win isn’t better grades—
It’s raising kids who can focus and connect.
#FutureOfWork
www.reuters.com/technology/s...
75% see improved student focus
60% better social climate
1 in 3 higher academic performance
Looking long term, maybe the real win isn’t better grades—
It’s raising kids who can focus and connect.
#FutureOfWork
www.reuters.com/technology/s...
Can We Have Better Classroom Conversations in Challenging Times? Societal polarization has reached the classroom. However, teaching students to share & listen to different perspectives is a crucial skill for a democracy. #ConversationalLeadership #conversation #education #democracy buff.ly/IdW5A5D
Can We Have Better Classroom Conversations in Challenging Times?
Societal polarization has reached the classroom. But teaching students to share and listen to different perspectives is a critical skill for democracy.
greatergood.berkeley.edu
July 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Can We Have Better Classroom Conversations in Challenging Times? Societal polarization has reached the classroom. However, teaching students to share & listen to different perspectives is a crucial skill for a democracy. #ConversationalLeadership #conversation #education #democracy buff.ly/IdW5A5D
Cardwell’s Law says innovation peaks are brief. Can we break this pattern? Progress is fragile, but by recognizing and protecting its conditions, long-term innovation may be possible. #innovation #creativity #km #kmers buff.ly/b3uoXaP
Cardwell’s Cage and How to Break Free
Blog Post | Innovation
humanprogress.org
July 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Cardwell’s Law says innovation peaks are brief. Can we break this pattern? Progress is fragile, but by recognizing and protecting its conditions, long-term innovation may be possible. #innovation #creativity #km #kmers buff.ly/b3uoXaP
The latest issue of my Knowledge Letter is out. It touches on themes I often revisit: how we communicate with one another, how we think, and how we lead without trying to control. I welcome feedback.
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#km #kmers #ConversationalLeadership
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#km #kmers #ConversationalLeadership
Gurteen Knowledge Letter July 2025 | Conversational Leadership
Gurteen Knowledge Letter July 2025
conversational-leadership.net
July 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The latest issue of my Knowledge Letter is out. It touches on themes I often revisit: how we communicate with one another, how we think, and how we lead without trying to control. I welcome feedback.
conversational-leadership.net/newsletter/i...
#km #kmers #ConversationalLeadership
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#km #kmers #ConversationalLeadership
Reposted by David Gurteen
Language models like ChatGPT help us transition from thought to action more quickly, transforming how we think, work, and create. conversational-leadership.net/llms-transfo... @davidgurteen.bsky.social #ConversationalLeadership #PKM #KMers #LLM #ChatGPT #Augmentation #FutureofWork
Rethinking Productivity with LLMs | Conversational Leadership
We've long treated productivity as a race to do more in less time. However, when creativity relies on research, writing, and clarity, good ideas often stall before they take off. Language models like ...
conversational-leadership.net
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Language models like ChatGPT help us transition from thought to action more quickly, transforming how we think, work, and create. conversational-leadership.net/llms-transfo... @davidgurteen.bsky.social #ConversationalLeadership #PKM #KMers #LLM #ChatGPT #Augmentation #FutureofWork
Reposted by David Gurteen
Warm Data: A relational understanding that reflects how the data is lived, remembered, and connected across multiple systems. conversational-leadership.net/warm-data/ @davidgurteen.bsky.social #ConversationalLeadership #PKM #KMers #Context #Relational #Complexity
Warm Data | Conversational Leadership
We live in overlapping layers of meaning: personal, cultural, emotional, and historical. The challenge is that most data ignores this complexity, offering facts without context. Warm data provides a d...
conversational-leadership.net
July 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Warm Data: A relational understanding that reflects how the data is lived, remembered, and connected across multiple systems. conversational-leadership.net/warm-data/ @davidgurteen.bsky.social #ConversationalLeadership #PKM #KMers #Context #Relational #Complexity
Tryptophan networks in cells may act as quantum computers, reshaping biology and neuroscience. #science #biology #neuroscience #quantumciomputers
Scientists discover quantum computing in the brain
Tryptophan networks in cells may act as quantum computers, reshaping biology, neuroscience, and the search for life in the universe.
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July 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Tryptophan networks in cells may act as quantum computers, reshaping biology and neuroscience. #science #biology #neuroscience #quantumciomputers
Throughout history, golden ages have emerged when societies embraced openness, curiosity, and innovation. In Peak Human, Johan Norberg explores how civilizations rose through trade, intellectual freedom, and cultural exchange, only to decline when fear and control replaced dynamism.
The Real Threats to Golden Ages Come From Within
Blog Post | Human Development
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June 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Throughout history, golden ages have emerged when societies embraced openness, curiosity, and innovation. In Peak Human, Johan Norberg explores how civilizations rose through trade, intellectual freedom, and cultural exchange, only to decline when fear and control replaced dynamism.
In Conversation is a weekly video podcast on YouTube in which John Hovell and I explore an aspect of Conversational Leadership. We meet most Thursdays at 9:15 AM Washington, DC time (2:15 PM London time).
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#ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #dialogue
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#ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #dialogue
June 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In Conversation is a weekly video podcast on YouTube in which John Hovell and I explore an aspect of Conversational Leadership. We meet most Thursdays at 9:15 AM Washington, DC time (2:15 PM London time).
conversational-leadership.net/podcast-in-c...
#ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #dialogue
conversational-leadership.net/podcast-in-c...
#ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #dialogue
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine #complexity #evolution #life #intelligence #universe #science buff.ly/DLKwOFS
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
www.quantamagazine.org
June 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta Magazine #complexity #evolution #life #intelligence #universe #science buff.ly/DLKwOFS
Issue 300 of my Knowledge Letter is out. Why "I have an open mind" can shut down conversation, my podcast work on AI and leadership, plus thoughts on innovation and dialogue.
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#ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #dialogue #innovation #complexity
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#ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #dialogue #innovation #complexity
Gurteen Knowledge Letter June 2025 | Conversational Leadership
Gurteen Knowledge Letter June 2025
conversational-leadership.net
June 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Issue 300 of my Knowledge Letter is out. Why "I have an open mind" can shut down conversation, my podcast work on AI and leadership, plus thoughts on innovation and dialogue.
conversational-leadership.net/newsletter/i...
#ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #dialogue #innovation #complexity
conversational-leadership.net/newsletter/i...
#ConversationalLeadership #km #kmers #dialogue #innovation #complexity