Geoffrey Miller
Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling: amzn.to/2O62gGJ. Evolution, sex, sentience, freedom.
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Defend your friends
A happy by-product of fighting to defend your friends is letting them know something that you might otherwise forget to tell them
Geoffrey Miller
Don't wait for the cavalry to save good people being mobbed, cancelled, & ostracized.
You are the cavalry.
Nice piece by @DouglasKMurray
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Gender differences in the predictors of life satisfaction across 150 nations
This study used multi-level modeling to explore gender differences in the predictors of life satisfaction in a sample of 952,739 individuals from 150 …
The Times Reveals Its Priorities
John McGinnis takes a look at the New York Times' interviews with the Democratic presidential candidates.
Millennials Love Zillow Because They’ll Never Own A Home
Real estate apps and Instagram accounts have become a digital fantasyland for broke millennials
The Brain Predicts Reward Like an AI, Says New DeepMind Research
The brain may simultaneously represent multiple predicted futures in parallel, each with a different probability of actually occurring based on reward.
How AI Will Turn Us All Into Filmmakers
As artificial intelligence sneaks its way into all corners of life—driving, finance, chatbots—everyday video will become ripe for an upgrade.
Geoffrey Miller
AI-powered, semi-automated video editing software, so we don't have to spend hours in Adobe Premier Pro to produce every 10-minute YouTube video? Yes please.
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Home - The Giving Pledge
A Commitment to Philanthropy: Giving Pledge is a commitment by the world's wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to giving back.
Geoffrey Miller
@MattWalshBlog Over 200 billionaires have signed 'The Giving Pledge' to donate most of their net worth to worthy, high-impact. humanitarian causes. That's over $500 billion pledged. Does @AOC really think the federal gov't can do more good with that money? If so, why?
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Statistical summary of 24-month campaign activity of the 2015-2016 election cycle
Find what you need to know about the federal campaign finance process. Explore legal resources, campaign finance data, help for candidates and committees, and more.
Geoffrey Miller
@robinhanson This is consistent with the relatively low amount spent on campaigns (e.g. less than $10bn in 2015-16 cycle, $30 per American) -- only about 0.2% of the $4 trillion federal budget that's controlled by politicians.
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The vicious cycle of disrespect and cynicism
We tested how cynicism emerges and what maintains it. Cynicism is the tendency to believe that people are morally bankrupt and behave treacherously to maximize self-interest. Drawing on literatures on norms of respectful treatment, we proposed that...
The University System Isn’t Going Anywhere
Universities have endured plague, population collapse, scandal, and even outlasted nations. Despite proclamations of the university system's death, one thing is certain: it's not going anywhere.
Implications of ideological bias in social psychology on clinical practice
Ideological bias is a worsening but often neglected concern for social and psychological sciences, affecting a range of professional activities and relationships, from self‐reported willingness to di...
Gary Marcus: Toward a Hybrid of Deep Learning and Symbolic AI | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
Gary Marcus is a professor emeritus at NYU, founder of Robust.AI and Geometric Intelligence, the latter is a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 201...
How is Twitter disrupting academia?
Kris on Twitter asks that question. I have a few hypotheses, none confirmed by any hard data, other than my “lyin’ eyes”: 1. Twitter exists as a kind of parallel truth/falsehood mechanism, and it is encroaching on traditional academic processes,...