Sunday, January 7, 2018

Why Do People Remain Loyal to a Losing Team?

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Cross-posted to the MDK10Outside and Cognition and Evolution . tl;dr Sports fan behavior is explained by a combination of constant identi...

Evil Gandhis and Poor Executive Function: How the World Looks if You Have Poor Impulse Control

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Cross-posted to Cognition and Evolution . Imagine that in some distant, cloudy mountain hideaway there is a city of evil Gandhis - or just...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Roberto Matta, The Earth Is A Man (inspired by Mexican landscape)

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I'm a big fan of his more detailed, anxiety-provoking mechanical-looking stuff (see Être avec or Être cible nous monde ) with a ...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Alternative History #7: German-Led Native Shock Troops in California

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For the previous installment, see Alternative History #6: A Buddhist Colony in Ptolemy's Egypt . For the next installment, see Alterna...
Friday, October 27, 2017

If You Take Parfit Seriously, You Should Commit Yourself To Creating Superintelligence

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Cross posted at Speculative Nonfiction and Cognition and Evolution . Derek Parfit makes the argument that if utilitarianism as it is comm...
Monday, October 23, 2017

The People Afraid of Their IQs

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[Cross-posted to Cognition and Evolution .] There has been some gnawing of tongues on the topic of IQ. Here I'm not talking about its...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Endowment Effect as a Rational Strategy Part 2: Don't Be A Sucker

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Many seemingly irrational decision-making biases can be rational in some settings which differ from typical experimental settings. For exam...