Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Protect Your Slack, Delay Moloch: Why You SHOULD Defend Yourself With Artificial Rents

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Inspired by Behold the Pale Child at Secretorum : "the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards Bakkalon." (or Moloch. ...
Monday, May 12, 2025

On the Good of Young Men Having Their Asses Kicked

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I recently visited a martial arts school for kids, and was immediately impressed by - something. It took me a minute to put my finger on wh...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Fiction Is Dreaming In Print

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There are mathematical techniques intended to counter over-fitting in data. Imagine a stockmarket analysis program. If it's trained on...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Denialisms Are About Moral Authority, Not Truth

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Sovereign citizens (hereafter sovcits) stick out among the various species of denialists.  Other denialisms are at least about matters of fa...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Professional Sports: Salary Distributions and Relationship to Team Size and League Revenues

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Some casual fans of pro sports are actually much more interested in the business and psychology of the leagues than the action on the field....
Monday, April 5, 2021

Lists of "Bizarre Beliefs" Reveal Difference Between True Belief, and Tribal Team Cheers

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tl;dr Many truth claims - beliefs - are actually just tribal team cheers, or emotional signals, with the propositional verbal content merely...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Is Discounting the Future Due to a Defect in Impulse Control, Or a Rational Adaptation?

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Many people are familiar with the Mischel marshmallow experiment. Kids who delayed gratification had better life outcomes.* The concept of...

Classifying Humans Is Not Inherently Bad. In Fact It's Often Good.

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When I was a psychiatry resident one of my supervisors told me her classification scheme for her fellow psychiatrists: there are fuzzies, a...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Physical Topography (of the American West) Associated with Human Personality

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You can find the paper here . I have only read the abstract since there's a paywall. Questions: how does this correlate with the sett...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

"What Do We Want?" "Not That" "When Do We Want It" "Now"

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An as-ever prescient Orwell, on modern protest movements both left and right: "[Nationalism] can attach itself to a church or a class,...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Addiction Has Three Types: To Pleasure, Flow, or Meaning

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Positive psychology research models happiness as reducing to three components : pleasure (chocolate, sunsets and orgasm), flow (losing your...
Friday, January 3, 2020

For the Rationalist Community: More on Why Choice of College Doesn't Matter That Much

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After I wrote the last post (telling people college choice doesn't actually matter much in terms of happiness in life ) it struck me how...