This is a basic misconception about the philosophical issue of free will. Beginning with theological determinism, free will accounts are all about the conditions in which an agent can be construed as responsible & giving free will broady to non-human animals would be a reductio.

Compatibilism is the only neurobiologically plausible account of free will that can coherently respond to sourcehood and luck arguments and demonstrates agency as the capacity to exert causal influence that's consistent with contemporary causal frameworks (causal Bayes nets etc).

If anyone would know...

Athletes DO NOT need running shoes to run a marathon. You can adapt to running in loafers.

Another inefficient training ride not on Zwift...

I think Tse is wrong here re interventionism. It can explain causation in the brain by additional variables, conditional probabilities, etc. I suspect Tse uses 'criterial' causation since he's a libertarian & interventionism's counterfactual dependency isn't hospitable to that.

1) I did a deep dive on the debate over whether social media is ruining teens' mental health. TLDR: The evidence is much weaker than Jonathan Haidt suggests, but not as negligible as his critics claim.

vox.com/24127431/smart…

I am happy to announce that the 2024 Simon Rottenberg Award is awarded to Colin Camerer from Caltech.
His insights into human behavior using sports and games has had far-reaching implications and a huge impact in economics research.
Colin Camerer Caltech
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I was fortunate to spend a decade in the same lab as Crick at the Salk - lab ritual was tea everyday at 3 where we all stopped and discussed the brain with Francis for an hour or so. Despite Watson's quip about a modest mood, Crick was unparalled in his scrutiny of his own ideas.

This is a masterclass in deceptive statistics, using one of the most common deceptive techniques: relative change across unequal groups.

Note the legend on the top left, and that teenage girls in 2020 (post 'sudden change') still have the *lowest rate* of all groups...

In The Anxious Child, Jonathan Haidt suggests that: “There was little sign of an impending mental illness crisis among adolescents in the 2000s. Then, quite suddenly, in the early 2010s, things changed.” However, in my view, CDC data tells a different story. 🧵 #MentalHealthcrisis

This does seem like Haidt is just story-telling. It neglects the fact that Trump and his administration were the authorites. MFT also claims conservatives are more loyal to their in-group and deferential to authority. Yet the opposite was seen contrary to MFT's predictions.

My contentious Conversation with Jonathan Haidt, conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonat…, #socialmedia

pro hack: to avoid the possibility of spontaneous combustion after ingesting oats, follow them with a shot of exogeneous ketones. Better yet, mix the ketones into the oatmeal for a delightful nutty and nail polish taste.

A nice study showing how diet elicited insulin resistance and disruption of mitochondrial function and metabolic fluxes in the renal cortex of mice, as important aspect in the pathogenesis of kidney disease.

I know I will be hammered by keto and high fat diet fans…but guess…