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We Don't Remember Well
Because our mental faculties are hard-wired to survive and thrive, our memory is heavily affected by what’s already there – by the good things that protect us. The meaning of the memory is the part we should remember, even if the details are off to some degree… or by a lot.
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What List Is America Joining?
The Pentagon plans to livestream a firing squad execution on December 3. A look at what list that puts America on, and why the country stopped holding public executions ninety years ago.
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How To Accomplish Anything and Why Psychology and AI Can Make It Possible
Unpredictable reward is one of the most reliable findings in behavioral psychology, and an AI chatbot makes it trivial to run on yourself. Four steps, no cost, and a bag of Reese's.
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They Were Trying to Live
Whatever it is that makes a person valuable was already entirely true of all of them before that Tuesday morning. Honor, dignity, and purpose in life are not something you earn in the last minute. You either have them the whole time, or not a single one of us ever had them.
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Reading Notes: A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn opens A People's History by admitting he's taking a side. A truth-seeker on why a historian who declares his bias is easier to trust than one who calls his own position common sense.
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Reading Notes: The Lost World of Genesis One
Halfway through John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One. What if the first readers of Genesis heard 'create' as assigning purpose rather than making matter? An early observation, written down before the full think-through.
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Low-Priced Think Work
We form beliefs cheaply — grabbing the lowest-effort conclusion because it's easy or fun to believe. A tech professional on the five ways we skip the think-work, and why the truth is worth what it actually costs.
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The Assumption: Humanity's Most Limiting Mental Framework
Most of us live under a belief we never named: producing belongs to someone else. AI is about to make that belief catastrophic — or finally false. From a tech founder and Bible student.
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The Sky's the Limit... Sometimes 😂
A late time musing about the woes of LLM model rate limits.