Monthly Archives: June 2017

Parenting : Who is it really for?

Parenting : Who is it really for? from: June 28, 2017 at 11:48AM

Travis/Trump: What Uber Tells Us About The White House

Travis/Trump: What Uber Tells Us About The White House from: June 28, 2017 at 11:46AM

Oh For Two

Oh For Two “If both of these authors are correct, then we have two political parties that aren’t really about anything. They’re competing fiercely and inarguably offering Americans some kind of choice – only someone truly out on a limb would argue that there is no difference at all between having Trump or Hillary in […]

Children use salience to solve coordination problems

Children use salience to solve coordination problems (pdf) 8-year-olds > 5-year-olds > 3-year-olds at finding ways in the environment to coordinate with each other if there is no method for communication. 3-year-olds were no better than chance.

The War on Work—and How to End It

The War on Work—and How to End It “Yet every underemployed American represents a failure of entrepreneurial imagination. We can do better. Our educational system must improve the way it provides skills that bring higher earnings, and we need to experiment with new forms of vocational training. We should encourage entrepreneurial energies, including by making […]

Whole Foods: Amazon’s best new customer ↦

Whole Foods: Amazon’s best new customer ↦ from: June 27, 2017 at 10:24AM

How A.E. Housman Invented Englishness

How A.E. Housman Invented Englishness “Housman insisted that the task of poetry was “to transfuse emotion—not to transmit thought”; it was to make your throat clench and your hair stand on end. The emotion his own poetry most often elicits is that of overwhelming sadness.”

What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex

What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex “These three fundamental attributes of the neocortex—learning by rewiring, sparse distributed representations, and sensorimotor integration—will be cornerstones of machine intelligence. Future thinking machines can ignore many aspects of biology, but not these three. Undoubtedly, there will be other discoveries about neurobiology that reveal other aspects of […]

you can’t fake it

you can’t fake it “Tricks of evolution aside, I’m left to wonder: what makes people insecure? Why is the condition so common? An obvious culprit, if you’re in my position, is capitalism” … SMH, the ancient religions answered these questions a long time ago. But modern atheists can’t get past the ‘wrongness’ of the literal […]

If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it

If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it from: June 16, 2017 at 12:27AM

Sunbathing in the Rain: Do we all need a little time to sit and think?

Sunbathing in the Rain: Do we all need a little time to sit and think? “A recent study by psychologists at the University of Virginia asked subjects to simply sit in a room and ‘just think’ for 6 to 15 minutes. In the room was a button allowing subjects to electrocute themselves if they wanted. […]

What Is Depression, Anyway?: The Synapse Hypothesis

What Is Depression, Anyway?: The Synapse Hypothesis from: June 13, 2017 at 05:50PM

How to apologize properly

How to apologize properly from: June 13, 2017 at 05:39PM

The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?

The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why? “Both religion and science, he observes, are ways of transcending our inherently fragile condition; they are versions of a ‘rebellion against human existence as it has been given’. But religious tropes in the AI community are motivated […]

Michael Lewis and the Parable of the Fourth Cookie

Michael Lewis and the Parable of the Fourth Cookie “With incredible consistency the person arbitrarily appointed leader of the group grabbed the fourth cookie, and ate it. Not only ate it, but ate it with gusto: lips smacking, mouth open, drool at the corners of their mouths. In the end all that was left of […]

How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain

How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain from: June 7, 2017 at 01:12PM

Interesting Sociology

Interesting Sociology from: June 6, 2017 at 01:32PM

Human Interaction

Human Interaction from: June 4, 2017 at 07:12AM

The future of conservatism in an age of alienation: A long-read Q&A with Yuval Levin

The future of conservatism in an age of alienation: A long-read Q&A with Yuval Levin “But I also think that we are now at a point—we have been for at least ten years—where the policy argument between left and right has become exhausted. Both the left and right in our politics are repeating old mantras […]

Yuval Levin on Conservatism

Yuval Levin on Conservatism from: June 3, 2017 at 11:59PM