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Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.
Stephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt • 1 highlight
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COMPLEX COGNITIVE CREATURES AREN’T BLANK SLATES.
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Berns found that most people went along with the view of the majority, even if it was wrong.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
What we have been calling a fingerprint might just be a stereotype.29
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
Distant abstractions are easier to antagonize than “living, breathing interlocutors.”
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
The simplest kind of proposition has a simple subject-predicate form.
Michael Huemer • Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy
“So should we define him by his psychopathy or by his sanity?” I said. “Well, the people who say that kind of thing,” Bob said, “and I don’t use this in a pejorative way, are very left-wing, left-leaning academics. Who don’t like labels. Who don’t like talking about differences between people.”
Jon Ronson • The Psychopath Test
The social psychologist John Bargh has an elegant demonstration of the ways fear can affect political ideology.