Richard Golian

1995-born. Charles University alum. Head of Performance at Mixit. 10+ years in marketing and data.

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#cognition

Cognition: How We Experience and Understand the World

8 articles

What AI Hides: System Prompts, Hallucinations, Alignment and the Concealment Built Into Every Model

Before you can teach AI to understand anything, you need to see what it is hiding from you.

11 April 2026·667 reads
How We Are Manipulated Without Knowing It — And Why It Works

Manipulation without the feeling of being manipulated is the most effective kind...

28 February 2026 ·1 270 reads
I am Surprised by the Confident Use of Words Like Certainty and Causality

He used words like “certainty” as if statistics were part of Newtonian physics...

23 March 2025·2 337 reads
How Is Artificial Intelligence Different from Human Intelligence?

AI predicts what the next word should be. You understand.

22 March 2025·2 106 reads
We Do not Think, We Just Consume.

More and more, I feel like real thinking is fading away...

8 March 2025·1 755 reads
Meaning of Life in the Age of AI — When Machines Handle Everything

When this sense of meaning disappears, it leaves behind an emptiness that...

22 February 2025·4 246 reads
Flow, Special Interests, and Hyperfocus: What Makes Neurodivergent Thinking Different

There is no need to attach anything with a negative connotation...

16 February 2025·1 844 reads

Common questions about this topic

What is cognitive bias?
A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that affects decisions and judgments. Common examples include confirmation bias (seeking information that confirms what you already believe), the Dunning-Kruger effect, and the anchoring effect. Awareness of biases is the first step to thinking more clearly.
How does manipulation work psychologically?
Effective manipulation exploits cognitive shortcuts — emotional triggers, social proof, authority, scarcity. The most dangerous manipulation is the kind you do not notice. Understanding these mechanisms is the best defense against them.
What is phenomenology?
Phenomenology is a philosophical approach that studies conscious experience — how things appear to us before we apply theories or assumptions. Founded by Edmund Husserl, it asks: what is it actually like to experience something? This method profoundly changes how you think about perception, knowledge, and reality.
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