Our risk profile tends to be stable…until we stop saving for our retirement and start drawing a pension—out with the considered investment risk, and in with the rock solid, expensive annuity. How come?
ICYMI, last call for my post—A craving for certainty:
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“You cannot convince people to engage in good-faith arguments if they have strong incentives not to.” Lionel Page explains why we don't all argue rigourously like scientists (including, increasingly, scientists!)—it’s the incentives: buff.ly/49wUjR4

Are conspiracy beliefs unshakable? Not quite! Research suggests it’s rare, but not impossible for conspiracy beliefs to change: buff.ly/3UaKB2e

“Healthcare workers are heroes”—idle words?

Research finds we believe ‘heroes’
•love their work despite poor treatment
•don’t mind work-related health problems
•willingly volunteer for extra unpaid work

…and we support policies exploiting them: buff.ly/4aTzmAR

Leaving behind the oh so common equal temperament for the Ancient Greek ideas of attunement can breathe new life into music—fascinating piece on how micro-tunings can change the feel of music when modulating to a different key: buff.ly/43SODPY
cc &gregbdavies @thoulihan

The recent surge in inflation, though abated now, may cast a long shadow forward, new research suggests, which found the ripples of Germany’s hyperinflation of a century ago can still be observed in people’s behaviour and inflation expectations: buff.ly/3vEFheb

Notice how much more interesting the world gets when it goes through a good artist's head.

This is incredible.

Here's a chart of Google searches for Eye pain and the Eclipse path.

ChatGPT’s inner child?
Research discovered LLMs’ ability to mimic the cognitive and linguistic abilities of children, specifically child-like language and understanding, particularly in tasks designed to test the theory of mind, @ewdolan reports: buff.ly/3TSlSyj

“Ptolemy’s complicated, bizarre system stood for 15 centuries as the textbook for cosmology because it seemed to work, or at least work well enough.”
How Copernicus debunked geocentrism and 1500 years of barking up the wrong tree—Rebecca 🌕 Boyle: buff.ly/4azxpJZ HT @docgrawitch

The puffing volcano! Like a debonair, experienced cigar aficionado, Mount Etna is blowing 'smoke rings' buff.ly/3Jdhi8X

I think Claude is also better as a composing partner.

“He was a class act, whether he was changing all of our minds, or merely his own.” @davidepstein remembers Danny Kahneman buff.ly/4cUqf4s HT @cravenpartners

Awe is good for us, research suggests—experiencing awe makes us perceive we have more time available, more willing to spend time help others and more patient, and momentarily boosts our life satisfaction:
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LLMs may be fun to produce Shakespearean limericks about flight delays or bedtime stories about space frogs, but they can also improve the design phase, the implementation phase, and the analysis phase of scientific experimentation, new research suggests: buff.ly/3TVyW5U

Global research by @jwaldfogel finds evidence for Amazon self-preferencing its own products is inconclusive, but intriguingly, since the EU designated it a “gatekeeper” platform, its rank differential fell from a 30- to a 20-position advantage:

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While saving for retirement, we seem happy enough to speculate to accumulate, but once it comes down to drawing a pension, we seem to crave the carefree safety of an annuity. What makes us flip our risk attitude overnight?
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Where does creativity come from? @johnnosta traces how our perception of the origin of creativity evolved from divine inspiration to inner genius, and on through the industrial and digital ages—has it come full circle with AI? buff.ly/3Q0QKeP