Zoe
@mbother
Zoe
We think we’re making active choices. But, often, we’re reinforcing unconscious biases - toward what’s familiar and frictionless. The algorithm isn’t evil. It’s obedient. It responds to what we train it on.
how to build your information advantage
Jawn_Quijote
11h
This really crystallizes some inchoate thoughts I've been having about the left since 2015, when Trump really scrambled the original playbook. The original incrementalist plan from the left fit in with the overall sense of Obama-era politics—that things were fundamentally pretty good and we were trying to push them forward in... See more
11h
This really crystallizes some inchoate thoughts I've been having about the left since 2015, when Trump really scrambled the original playbook. The original incrementalist plan from the left fit in with the overall sense of Obama-era politics—that things were fundamentally pretty good and we were trying to push them forward in... See more
Your cause is not the moral equivalent of fighting slavery
Marc Robbins
Marc Robbins
5h
"but to be an annoying pedant"
C-man, I'm happy to give you some tips on how to become the pleasant, charming type of pedant that people fall over themselves to invite to their parties and hold forth on the most exciting topics of pedantry that have captured the public's imagination.
Marc Robbins
5h
"but to be an annoying pedant"
C-man, I'm happy to give you some tips on how to become the pleasant, charming type of pedant that people fall over themselves to invite to their parties and hold forth on the most exciting topics of pedantry that have captured the public's imagination.
Doubling down on climate won't win the Senate
25% VAT!!!!!
Hygge is the concept of doing things that don’t cost money and just getting drunk in bed.
Hygge is the concept of doing things that don’t cost money and just getting drunk in bed.
What cash can and can’t do
While it’s probably one of the corniest things I’ll ever write in this column, I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you. It’s the product of devouring ideas, images and pieces of culture not... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
However, this is the problem: for a vast, complex political universe, there will be a vast space of possible but distinct interpretations sensitive to genuine facts and regularities. In most cases, it won’t be a simple matter of thinking all but one system of concepts and explanatory frameworks are wrong. There’s a deep sense in which they’re all... See more
Dan Williams • The deep and unavoidable roots of political bias
Failing to prioritize stupidity over malice causes things like paranoia. Always assuming malice puts you at the center of everyone else’s world. This is an incredibly self-centered approach to life. In reality, for every act of malice, there is almost certainly far more ignorance, stupidity, and laziness.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
JA
JA
10h
All of this discourse about how Dems should strategize to win seems a bit like aliens trying to reason from first principles and unreliable issue polling about how to win a human election.
Yes, of course it’s possible in principle that omniscient Dem strategists would figure it out. But having basically no theory of mind when it comes to... See more
JA
10h
All of this discourse about how Dems should strategize to win seems a bit like aliens trying to reason from first principles and unreliable issue polling about how to win a human election.
Yes, of course it’s possible in principle that omniscient Dem strategists would figure it out. But having basically no theory of mind when it comes to... See more
What's the plan to win the Senate?
srynerson
14h
Edited
It probably contributed somewhat, but I suspect another significant factor is senior decisionmakers simply becoming more savvy about social media. A lot of the stuff that happened with corporate activity in the 2014-2020 timeframe seems to me to have been driven by executives believing that any noticeable degree of criticism on... See more
14h
Edited
It probably contributed somewhat, but I suspect another significant factor is senior decisionmakers simply becoming more savvy about social media. A lot of the stuff that happened with corporate activity in the 2014-2020 timeframe seems to me to have been driven by executives believing that any noticeable degree of criticism on... See more