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It seems like every society needs to painfully re-learn, every 50-100 years or so, that good things are fragile and easily taken for granted and a fun dip into smashing stuff to shake up the system can turn out to be truly terrible, unlocking all kinds of barely hidden demons.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Follow Tim Calkins for great analysis of super bowl ads. For my part, I'm seeing too many zany, off-the-wall, gross-out CGI entries. They rely on distinctiveness for memorability, but if everyone runs them, they all run together!

My favorite commercial of the night.

i lost over thirty pounds by cutting off my legs!

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 6 experiments (N = 4,504) show that workers accomplish more when their compensation encourages "streaks" of achievement (i.e., 3 successive accomplishments w/o a break) than when offered higher flat-rate rewards per accomplishment. 👉doi.org/10.1016/j.obhd…

At some point "stop with the virtue signaling" became "stop with the virtue having"

Just a quick reminder that the most important speech to protect is the speech you hate the most.

A great paper, once again showing that people who are seen as predictable are perceived as more moral. This time, it is in the context of altruism, not of moral transgressions Alexander C. Walker and I studied previously. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej…

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"The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights." — President Eisgruber writes in @theatlantic. bit.ly/4iDZ2Fx

Variants of this finding pop up in many fields Our fast System-1 reaction is to reach for a psychological interpretation: idiots don’t realize they are idiots... The rarer System-2 reaction is to remember there is measurement error in both IQ & self-estimated IQ – which means

Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc). That’s some fascist shit.

New paper alert with Olivier Toubia! We show how prompt architecture introduces systematic error in LLM responses. 🧵Key findings from our study on prompt structure (and how to mitigate silent bias in your research):

It is easy to glance at the news and be captivated by whatever fresh travesty is happening in the world today. But the reality is that most of people’s moral lives play out in quieter, seemingly more mundane moments, such as those involving friends and family, at the grocery