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A lot of medical research is slowed down by ethics regulations that don't make a difference to patient safety. Experienced this first hand & working on smth to change it. If you are someone who has been slowed down forever by IRBs re for example biospecimen collection pls DM.

Josh Hendrickson There is a terrific Dan Williams piece about that open.substack.com/pub/conspicuou…

Three reasons I think rational persuasion is generally underrated:

My very personal story about how I discovered evolutionary psychology. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…

Excellent points. I'd add two more reasons why rational persuasion is underrated: (1) Rational persuasion lasts longer. You can't build a civilization on quick-and-easy heuristic persuasion. But you can build something grand if you can truly, deeply persuade people with sound

It's great to see the subtext of every other freelance opinion column finally made explicit.

My favorite response to AI as Normal Technology is deep engagement, including comparing it against competing worldviews. It was a pleasure to talk to Joshua Rothman for this New Yorker essay, which contrasts AI as Normal Tech with AI 2027 (ft. Arvind Narayanan Daniel Kokotajlo)

Interesting 👇

20th-century anthropologists called romantic love a Western invention – our new paper, with data from 9 non-WEIRD societies (N = 937), finds high levels of passion, intimacy & commitment everywhere, adding evidence for the universality of love hypothesis. Link to the pdf below!

‘From perspective on how to rebuild trust in the institutions (..) letting overwhelmingly liberal, left-leaning #misinformation researchers apply expansive definitions of misinformation seems much more likely to exacerbate this problem than help solve it.’ conspicuouscognition.com/p/criticising-…

This piece from last year by a bunch of French specialists in evolution, misinformation and science communication criticizing poor media coverage of a bad book on evolution is a really good read (including the comments thread featuring the book's author) sfecologie.org/regard/ro24-ju…

"The populist celebration of “common sense” over expert authority enacts an exhilarating status reversal" "One of the psychological traits that reliably correlates with a conspiratorial mentality is narcissism ... conspiracy theories offer an intoxicating status inversion" Yes

By Dan Williams conspicuouscognition.com/p/status-class…

An interesting and well written post by Dan Williams

Dan Williams Have I ever told you my Grand Unified Theory of the sociology of the philosophy profession? Basically it's, back in the bad old days status came from being Really Fucking Smart so even politically heterodox people like Nozick could be King Shit of our little turd mountain

a wonderful article from Dan Williams, as always. it's often true that knowledge claims are politically self-defeating for cultural elites since they focus the issue on a problem of truth rather than a problem of political competition imho. conspicuouscognition.com/p/status-class…