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dianaverse.com | ||
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gwern.net
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| | | | | Why most supplements fail: IQ improvement skepticism, Yudkowsky & Bostrom's heuristics, nootropics | |
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fleeingvesuvius.org
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| | | | | [AI summary] The provided text is a detailed essay exploring the psychological roots of resource overconsumption, touching on topics such as human evolution, social status, novelty-seeking behavior, and cultural influences. The author connects these concepts to modern capitalist systems and critiques the idea that status and competition are inherent to human evolution, suggesting instead that cooperation and shared knowledge were more central to early human societies. The essay also includes reader comments that challenge the author's views, with some arguing that the author's analysis is influenced by capitalist ideologies and others providing alternative perspectives on human behavior and social structures. | |
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peerj.com
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| | | | | Here we report on a rare and opportunistic acoustic turn-taking with an adult female humpback whale, known as Twain, in Southeast Alaska. Post hoc acoustic and statistical analyses of a 20-min acoustic exchange between the broadcast of a recorded contact call, known as a 'whup/throp', with call responses by Twain revealed an intentional human-whale acoustic (and behavioral) interaction. Our results show that Twain participated both physically and acoustically in three phases of interaction (Phase 1: Enga... | |
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themultidisciplinarian.com
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| | | Feyerabend exaggerated the uncertainty of early modern science, downplayed the empirical gains Galileo and others made, and misrepresented or misunderstood some of the technical content of physics. His mischievous rhetorical style made it hard to tell where serious argument ended and performance began. Rather than offering a coherent alternative methodology, Feyerabend's value lay in exposing... | ||
