You have likely tried to navigate a park or other recreational site in which signs helpfully display a map of your environment. You may have noticed a critical feature of some but not all of these maps that makes them much easier to use: a brightly ...
The epistemological categories—truth, belief, inference—are richer, more complex, diverse, and nebulous than rationalism supposes.
We already know how to dramatically accelerate science: by getting out of the way.
If you’re not already familiar (and, frankly, are the kind of person who is weird enough to be subscribed to Macroscience), I highly recommend that you immediately stop what you’re doing and visit the Wikipedia page for “long-term experiment”. Then, check out Sam Arbesman’s...
We show that competitive markets protect consumers from many forms of exploitation, even when consumers have non-standard preferences. We analyze a competitive dynamic economy in which consumers have arbitrary time-separable preferences and arbitrary beliefs about their own future behavior. Competition among agents eliminates...
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I’m off camping this weekend, so you’re getting a short but important PSA. If you’ve hung out on the internet for any length of time or in circles that talk about psych/cognitive …
How does responsibility flow through collective agents?
Xi Jinping’s decision to openly label the United States the source of China’s ills rolled through the newsletters, wire services, and commentators on China this week. Much has been written about…
In thinking about the challenge of getting artificial intelligence (AI) to understand our complex world, I recalled a Twitter post from a user of Tesla’s self-driving system. The user tweeted that his car kept stopping abruptly at a particular location for no apparent reason. Then he noticed a billboard advertisement on the...
The artist and musician uses machine learning to make strange, playful work. She also advocates for artists’ autonomy in a world shaped by A.I.
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I prefer falling asleep to waking up. I prefer beer to wine. And I prefer the sound of the electric piano, such as a Fender Rhodes, to the sound of any other instrument.
In “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling,” Marguerite Young held a mirror to the country’s ambition, delusion, and insatiable quest for perfection.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s inverted portraits challenge idealized notions of Peru’s history.
Assembly theory conceptualizes objects as entities defined by their possible formation histories, allowing a unified language for describing selection, evolution and the generation of novelty.
What happens when an earth-shattering discovery runs up against the scientifically impossible?
Fluidity Forum '22 Talk and Reflections
“They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game” - R. D. Laing
Realboyism is a new volume of writing in which musical offerings will be paired with poetical essays on associated themes; this is the first chapter. Fall of the Fall Listen to Fall of the Fall by Realboy on SoundCloud There is no meme or hidden subtext. And even though the Fall of the Fall got a tie-in pop song, featuring AI...
The United States Department of Transportation will pay $11.8 million to save a life. You know what that means? It means that if you come to the United States Department of Transportation with a plan (barriers around the Grand Canyon, wider lanes on the expressway, no left-turns on Sundays, etc. etc. etc.), the United States...
Israeli settler colonialism cannot be justified or tolerated, regardless of whatever historical claims are made. Boiling the history of Palestine down into a refutation of modern ethno-nationalist claims does a disservice to our real and multifaceted history.
How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not.
I’ve been reading up on the history of psychology to understand the origin point of American mental health concepts.
