The default math class in high school should be Statistics instead of Calculus

The Social Instinct will be published this time next week 😬 So, for a bit of fun, here are a few of my favourite factoids from the book. #TheSocialInstinct

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A fascinating read from our grad student Jesse David Whiteman's latest publication about 'Toddlers' Interventions toward fair and unfair individuals.' Read the article here 👇👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #sciencejournal #psychology #developmentalscience #research #publications

Fascinating paper exploring the possible evolutionary functions of the social emotions: gratitude, pride, anger, guilt, sadness, shame, and envy. psyarxiv.com/yrgq7/

"Empathy is not always the best guide for moral judgment. [It] can encourage overvaluing some people and ignoring others and privileging one over many. Reasoning is therefore essential to filter and evaluate emotional responses that guide moral decisions." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Hi Everyone -- It's publication day for the "The Sweet Spot"! I'd be very grateful if people would RT and otherwise spread the word. To buy the book: harpercollins.com/products/the-s… Blurbs, excerpts, interviews, etc.: paulbloom.net

An #LLM is like "a turbocharged version of autocomplete". It only considers "the states of the world on which it is trained", not the actual state of the world. "Predicting text, though, has little to do with verifying text". Great piece by Gary Marcus #AI nautil.us/ai-is-terrible…