The most affordable house in America, AI takes over HR (and fails), and why smart people just don't care

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America's most luxurious affordable home: A tiny house that sells for under $11,000 on Amazon

This tricked out new house costs less than a used car.

It has become more difficult for people to become new homeowners now more than ever. The average cost to buy a house in the United States is over $500,000, and having a single-family home built on your property could cost an average of $323,000. However, some people today are looking for homes the same way you might look for other deals: on Amazon.

Amazon is offering customizable “tiny houses” with a front porch for under $11,000. That’s nearly twice as cheap as the average used car. The small house promises consumers to be easily assembled without any drills or nails involved due to its foldable design. There is customization in mind in which potential buyers can purchase extra rooms and amenities such as solar panels and rainwater harvesting for an additional cost. For some models, you can purchase additional floors to stack onto the base kit. This could sound like a dream for many non-homeowners, as a 2024 survey found that the majority of them don’t (or can't) buy a home due to lower incomes and higher cost of living.

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Company accidentally leaves hilariously tone deaf AI prompt in person's job-rejection email

"Make the candidate feel like they were strongly considered even if they weren’t."

Between recruiting scams, unpaid "assignments," and the anxiety of awaiting updates about which interview round you’ve reached, the modern job-hunting process is already stressful enough. We don’t need to also normalize the humiliation of receiving an AI-written rejection email.

Nonetheless, that’s exactly what happened to one apparent job seeker, who went online and shared a partially redacted note that clearly—and, let’s hope, accidentally—includes a prompt submitted to some kind of automated chatbot. It’s the kind of moment that makes you slightly embarrassed to be human, but luckily we got some excellent jokes out of it.

Study reveals a startling truth: Intelligence lowers our empathy toward other people

"Smart people care less about moral judgements."

A recent study conducted on adults in the UK found that people with higher cognitive ability scored lower on moral foundations. The study, published this summer in the journal Intelligence, sought to gage people's response to the Moral Foundations Theory based on their overall intelligence. After two different studies, no difference was found between genders, but a person's intelligence revealed a different story.

The research suggests that analytical thinkers tend to override their baseline moral intuitiveness. But what does that actually mean? First, cognitive ability refers to problem solving, abstract thinking, memory, logic, language comprehension, and basic critical thinking. This isn't only IQ, but a person's ability to process and apply their knowledge. Think of it as a living scholastic aptitude test (SAT.)

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