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solidarity
one of the main problems with the world
A new preprint, co-authored with @johnwkrakauer.bsky.social:
The Deliberation Taboo
Cognitive science is, nominally, the science of thinking. We argue that the field has no theory of what thinking is and, even worse, that the topic has largely dropped out of focus. 1/
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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i just meant most different, independent of valence! i much prefer in-arena, but i'm not really a hockey guy, just in it for the energy
biggest gap by far between in-arena and televised experiences
totally agreed. i was envisioning something like an abstract, with perhaps just a bit more detail about methods than can be found in the typical abstract of a published paper. plus contact information!
for sure--a norm would have to be established, such that it was widely considered fraudulent not to archive everything
there's going to be a file drawer problem so long as reporting null results is an opt-in affair (and whether the opting-in happens before or after the "confirmatory study" is run)
pilots--or any other studies the authors aren't confident they want associated with their names
there's sort of a tension except that (afaict) only rec 2 has ever been taken up in earnest. what's needed is a massive archive (with an excellent search engine) called The File Drawer where everybody puts all of their pilots
Give it a try here!
self-model.github.io/pretendingNo...
this is a way in which i know i've marked myself as an outsider in conversations with neuroscientists--just couldn't bring myself to drop the article
bl woj, jw shams, obviously
hm
an internet person has made a searchable version of Borges‘ library of Babel and it’s way more horrifying than the actual story libraryofbabel.info
^has!
riana betzler had a bunch of relevant stuff, including direct critiques of bloom
rianabetzler.com/publications/
even if it's required, "there are no deep metaphysical truths other than this one" is such a trivial revision
regardless, such a shallow move by the proclaimed advocate of depth
this is the project that dan was far and away most excited to talk about over the last several years of his life
until reading this and looking it up just now, i had for many years been under the impression that the etymology of "internecine" had to do with disagreements within nicene christianity. i wonder whether i've mispelled it in print or if spellchecker has saved me
The special issue *The Principle of Charity in Language, Thought, and Interpretation* is out! I'm grateful to my co-editors and to the other contributors.
link.springer.com/journal/1124...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
After reading the NYer piece this morning, I reread the preface to Hat, which explicitly calls the case studies "fables". And, as you suggest, it's hard to imagine reading them (especially the dialogue in Awakenings and Hat) and not realizing there's a healthy dose of artistic license being taken.
one semester's daily quizzes
yeah but you shoulda seen how i thought it, fervent raw babylike associations
