Category: psychology
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The Myth of the Adult
When we are kids, life’s trajectory looks something like this: struggle through childhood with crappy unfinished brains, then at some point, make a transition to adulthood, in which our brains are complete, mature, and equipped to handle what life throws at us. Calvin and Hobbes: Moving On, by Zatransis Every adult knows that’s bullshit. And every…
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Science With Thought Experiments
Think about this: Science—empirical study of the world—only exists because thought experiments aren’t good enough. Yet. Philosophers used to figure out how stuff worked just by thinking about it. They would take stuff they knew about how the world worked, and purely by applying intuition, logic and math to it, figure out new stuff. No…
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Tweeting With the Stars, Volume 9: Deepak Chopra Volume 3
Ok so like, you know how Deepak Chopra and I go way back? Our relationship started out like any other: I accused him of not understanding physics and he invited me back to his place. Soon we were talking about how this energy between us burns brighter than the sun. I thought it was going really well.…
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