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"title": "Common Misconceptions About Anger?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/11/common-misconceptions-about-anger/", "published_at": "2025-11-03T21:36:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19b-d05e-70d8-9d28-aabeb8ed4fe2", "title": "But Does Social Media Use Actually Cause Bad Mental Health?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/11/but-does-social-media-use-actually-cause-bad-mental-health/", "published_at": "2025-11-02T19:34:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-464f-73a8-966c-60151e2f6a66", "title": "Something Unexpected That May Help Some Common Chronic Medical Conditions", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/10/4583/", "published_at": "2025-10-30T23:36:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-464f-73a8-966c-60151f2d0099", "title": "To What Extent Are Women In The U.S. Actually More Social Justice Oriented Than Men?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/10/to-what-extent-are-women-in-the-u-s-actually-more-social-justice-oriented-than-men/", "published_at": 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Are Worth Knowing", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/07/fascinating-obscure-concepts-that-are-worth-knowing/", "published_at": "2025-07-08T18:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-464f-73a8-966c-60152053691f", "title": "You’re right about everything", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/07/youre-right-about-everything/", "published_at": "2025-07-01T04:36:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-464f-73a8-966c-601520d99781", "title": "Narcissists Aren’t Necessarily Who You Think They Are", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/06/narcissists-arent-necessarily-who-you-think-they-are/", "published_at": "2025-06-21T01:48:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-464f-73a8-966c-6015212d4c13", "title": "Does The Music You Listen To Predict Your Personality?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/05/does-the-music-you-listen-to-predict-your-personality/", "published_at": "2025-05-23T23:44:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-464f-73a8-966c-601521a4874f", "title": "Is it a problem if students cheat using AI?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/05/is-it-a-problem-if-students-cheat-using-ai/", "published_at": "2025-05-23T22:26:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-900e-7182-afe9-3f235669ed6a", "title": "The Oddly Absent “Wesearch”", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/05/the-oddly-absent-wesearch/", "published_at": "2025-05-23T18:18:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-900e-7182-afe9-3f235727cda0", "title": "For Health And Longevity, Be Wary Of Mechanisms", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/05/for-health-and-longevity-be-wary-of-mechanisms/", "published_at": "2025-05-09T00:18:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-900e-7182-afe9-3f23574b401d", "title": "When is it worth it to argue over definitions?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2025/04/when-is-it-worth-it-to-argue-over-definitions/", "published_at": "2025-04-10T21:42:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19c-900e-7182-afe9-3f2357a46118", "title": "When are tariffs beneficial?", "url": 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"https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/run-your-own-organic-no-prep-city-scavenger-hunt/", "published_at": "2024-07-29T02:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-0db6-72ea-905a-4c6ac273ded4", "title": "Understanding the Landscape of Viewpoints on the Risks and Benefits of AI", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/understanding-the-landscape-of-viewpoints-on-the-risks-and-benefits-of-ai/", "published_at": "2024-07-28T00:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-0db6-72ea-905a-4c6ac2ff0cd8", "title": "Merlin: a tribute to a cat I love", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/merlin/", "published_at": "2024-07-12T05:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-0db6-72ea-905a-4c6ac36fb01c", "title": "Always Conduct the “Simplest Valid Analysis”", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/always-conduct-the-simplest-valid-analysis/", "published_at": "2024-07-10T11:13:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d03717fbb1c", "title": "Creating more moments of attention", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/creating-more-moments-of-attention/", "published_at": "2024-07-09T14:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d0371f41890", "title": "The “Lizardman’s Constant” Causes the “Nonsense Factor:” a hidden source of false conclusions in research", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/the-lizardmans-constant-causes-the-nonsense-factor-a-hidden-source-of-false-conclusions-in-research/", "published_at": "2024-07-05T09:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d037256fcff", "title": "Four extremely bad ideas that have been popular", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/07/four-extremely-bad-ideas-that-have-been-popular/", "published_at": "2024-07-05T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d03729758b4", "title": "How heritable are human traits like personality, height, mental health, physical health, education, religiosity, and conservatism? (h^2 estimates)", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/06/heritability/", "published_at": "2024-06-12T14:23:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d0372ea6b5d", "title": "Are happiness and well-being the only things that people value?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/06/are-happiness-and-well-being-the-only-things-that-people-value/", "published_at": "2024-06-05T17:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d0372fb19bf", "title": "Categorizing types of beliefs: Valuable Truths, Bitter Pills, Philosophical Disorders and Helpful Falsehoods", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/05/categorizing-types-of-beliefs-valuable-truths-bitter-pills-philosophical-disorders-and-helpful-falsehoods/", "published_at": "2024-05-25T16:26:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d03731176c0", "title": "How can big problems get solved?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/05/how-can-big-problems-get-solved/", "published_at": "2024-05-05T15:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d0373d201e6", "title": "How to spot real expertise", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/04/how-to-spot-real-expertise/", "published_at": "2024-04-23T13:33:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d0373f23ba2", "title": "Three motivations for believing ", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/04/three-motivations-for-believing/", "published_at": "2024-04-20T14:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-455a-70c8-9f42-4d037442217d", "title": "The benefits and soul-crushing downsides of A.I. progress", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/04/the-benefits-and-soul-crushing-downsides-of-a-i-progress/", "published_at": "2024-04-11T16:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d858fabe5c", "title": "In memory of Daniel Kahneman, who accelerated our understanding of the mind", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/03/in-memory-of-daniel-kahneman-who-accelerated-our-understanding-of-the-mind/", "published_at": "2024-03-28T03:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d8594d2b45", "title": "Seven simple but effective methods for improving your connection with others", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/03/seven-simple-but-effective-methods-for-improving-your-connection-with-others/", "published_at": "2024-03-16T03:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d85951088b", "title": "Does money buy happiness, according to science?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/02/does-money-buy-happiness-according-to-science/", "published_at": "2024-02-29T04:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d859767eec", "title": "I’m an extreme non-credentialist – what about you?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/02/im-an-extreme-non-credentialist-what-about-you/", "published_at": "2024-02-28T15:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d859c290a6", "title": "Do we all have strange beliefs?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/02/do-we-all-have-strange-beliefs/", "published_at": "2024-02-02T15:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d859fef8d7", "title": "When Is Gossip Good?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/01/when-is-gossip-good/", "published_at": "2024-01-28T15:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d85a654d02", "title": "How great is the U.S., really?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2024/01/how-great-is-the-u-s-really/", "published_at": "2024-01-05T14:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d85a8559ef", "title": "Think smarter about what’s “good”", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/12/think-smarter-about-whats-good/", "published_at": "2023-12-20T19:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d85ab69088", "title": "Dichotomizer (or Oversimplifiers) vs. Difference Deniers: a dynamic regarding group differences that leads to rage and confusion", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/12/oversimplifiers-vs-difference-deniers-a-dynamic-regarding-group-differences-that-leads-to-rage-and-confusion/", "published_at": "2023-12-17T16:22:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-7b6c-7059-888c-85d85b6b6a1f", "title": "Understanding two of the weirdest theorems in math: Gödel’s incompleteness ", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/11/understanding-two-of-the-weirdest-theorems-in-math-godels-incompleteness/", "published_at": "2023-11-17T12:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac4ea7fb91", "title": "Four reasons art is made – and how they shape the art world", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/11/four-reasons-art-is-made-and-how-they-shape-the-art-world/", "published_at": "2023-11-11T23:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac4f225f74", "title": "Who is Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) really, and how could he have done what he did? – three theories and a lot of evidence", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/11/who-is-sam-bankman-fried-sbf-really-and-how-could-he-have-done-what-he-did-three-theories-and-a-lot-of-evidence/", "published_at": "2023-11-10T17:05:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac4f8c7311", "title": "Improving your feed using the Law of Social Media Manifestation", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/11/improving-your-feed-using-the-law-of-social-media-manifestation/", "published_at": "2023-11-08T04:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac4ff4e28b", "title": "Some Signs of Harmful or Untrustworthy Relationships", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/11/some-signs-of-harmful-or-untrustworthy-relationships/", "published_at": "2023-11-03T11:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac505b558c", "title": "How to make LLMs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude work better: my favorite custom instructions", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/10/how-to-make-chatgpt-gpt-4-work-better-my-favorite-custom-instructions/", "published_at": "2023-10-25T13:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac50a0c469", "title": "People often ask – why do girls like bad boys? But do women like bad guys, or do they actually prefer “powerful good guys”?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/10/do-women-like-bad-guys-or-do-they-actually-prefer-powerful-good-guys/", "published_at": "2023-10-25T12:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac50c06d94", "title": "Human universals: 6 remarkable things I think are true of nearly all adults", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/10/human-universals-6-remarkable-things-i-think-are-true-of-nearly-all-adults/", "published_at": "2023-10-20T11:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac5124590d", "title": "Don’t let justified terror or rage cause you to do immoral things", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/10/dont-let-justified-terror-or-rage-cause-you-to-do-immoral-things/", "published_at": "2023-10-17T13:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac512c1b6d", "title": "What is Lightgassing? A way we harm people by validating their false beliefs", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/10/what-is-lightgassing-a-way-we-harm-people-by-validating-their-beliefs/", "published_at": "2023-10-02T03:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-aab2-7050-9ea6-a2ac51306ecb", "title": "Eight ways you can validate someone’s emotions in a healthy way (and four strategies to avoid)", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/10/eight-ways-you-can-validate-someones-emotions-in-a-healthy-way-and-four-strategies-to-avoid/", "published_at": "2023-10-02T01:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-06067725cc1f", "title": "Five rules for good science (and how they can help you spot bad science)", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/09/five-rules-for-good-science-and-how-they-can-help-you-spot-bad-science/", "published_at": "2023-09-22T15:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-0606778bb8e2", "title": "Three reasons to be cautious when reading data-driven “explanations”", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/09/three-reasons-to-be-cautious-when-reading-data-driven-explanations/", "published_at": "2023-09-11T00:39:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-0606782c0f32", "title": "How to avoid feeding anti-science sentiments", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/08/how-to-avoid-feeding-anti-science-sentiments/", "published_at": "2023-08-13T13:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-06067883e150", "title": "Dealing with chronic pain: it’s in the way you move", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/08/its-the-way-you-move/", "published_at": "2023-08-08T00:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-060678be5b47", "title": "Paving the road to hell with good intentions: four examples of good actors screwing things up", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/08/paving-the-road-to-hell-with-good-intentions-four-examples-of-good-actors-screwing-things-up/", "published_at": "2023-08-05T09:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-0606791f6e02", "title": "Six fresh takes on wisdom to help you become wiser", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/08/six-fresh-takes-on-wisdom/", "published_at": "2023-08-01T18:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-06067939a761", "title": "Valuism and X: how Valuism sheds light on other domains – Part 5 of the sequence on Valuism", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/07/valuism-and-x-how-valuism-sheds-light-on-other-domains-part-5-of-the-sequence-on-valuism/", "published_at": "2023-07-19T13:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-060679421d99", "title": "False Beliefs Held by Intellectual Giants", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/07/false-beliefs-held-by-intellectual-giants/", "published_at": "2023-07-16T03:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-060679b97121", "title": "If you think technological progress is inevitable, you’re mistaken", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/07/if-you-think-technological-progress-is-inevitable-youre-mistaken/", "published_at": "2023-07-08T12:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19d-e266-71a0-b4a7-06067a5ea0c0", "title": "What countries have the most billion-dollar startup companies per capita?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2023/06/what-countries-have-the-most-billion-dollar-startup-companies-per-capita/", "published_at": "2023-06-28T15:40:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

My Social Experimentsoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
Why We Need And Lose Institutionsoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
What Do People Who Have Committed Sexual Harassment or Sexual Assault Say About Why They Committed It?original ↗
2 Jul 2026
What’s Between Us and Realityoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
The Mental Models You Don’t Know Aboutoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
Does Meditation Really Demonstrate There Is No You?original ↗
24 Mar 2026
Age Of Gurusoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2026

2025

Will The U.S. Legal System Get You Justice?original ↗
29 Dec 2025
A problem with correlations: rare traits usually have small correlations to other things, just by virtue of being rareoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2025
Four ways to get more pleasure from good thingsoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2025
Psychological Words That Don’t Mean What You Thinkoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
Don’t Use The Baseline Value As One Of The Predictors When You’re Predicting A Change In The Same Variableoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
Is Taking Every Supplement That Might Work A Good Idea For Health?original ↗
6 Dec 2025
People May Value Universal Happiness And Reduction Of Suffering More Than They Realizeoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusingoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2025
Facts That Contradict Common Narratives About The United Statesoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
Categorizing The Causes Of Bad Things In The Worldoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
If AI Replaces Human Labor Does That Have To Strip Human Lives Of Meaning?original ↗
16 Nov 2025
Common Misconceptions About Anger?original ↗
3 Nov 2025
But Does Social Media Use Actually Cause Bad Mental Health?original ↗
2 Nov 2025
Something Unexpected That May Help Some Common Chronic Medical Conditionsoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2025
To What Extent Are Women In The U.S. Actually More Social Justice Oriented Than Men?original ↗
30 Oct 2025
The Pattern Where Populist Leaders Rise To Power And Take Advantage Of The Populaceoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Paradoxical Goals That Fail If You Pursue Them Directlyoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2025
Alternatives To Circling For Facilitating Group Connectionsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Fascinating Obscure Concepts That Are Worth Knowingoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2025
You’re right about everythingoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2025
Narcissists Aren’t Necessarily Who You Think They Areoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2025
Does The Music You Listen To Predict Your Personality?original ↗
23 May 2025
Is it a problem if students cheat using AI?original ↗
23 May 2025
The Oddly Absent “Wesearch”original ↗
23 May 2025
For Health And Longevity, Be Wary Of Mechanismsoriginal ↗
9 May 2025
When is it worth it to argue over definitions?original ↗
10 Apr 2025
When are tariffs beneficial?original ↗
7 Apr 2025
Can you trust survey responses?original ↗
29 Mar 2025
Is IQ Legitimate or B.S.?original ↗
25 Mar 2025
Five types of people who spread misinformationoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2025
Predictions of extinction are not like other predictionsoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2025
Why can’t society agree on who is a “man,” who is a “woman,” and who is neither? An empirical and philosophical investigation into the metaphysics of gender.original ↗
8 Feb 2025
The Crud Factor: what’s the average correlation between totally random human traits?original ↗
24 Jan 2025
Educators Helping To Improve Rational Thinkingoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2025
The effects of AI on chessoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2025

2024

Is magic “real”?original ↗
14 Dec 2024
Trusting the scienceoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2024
Why do people often disagree about what’s immoral?original ↗
16 Nov 2024
At what step do you disagree regarding the ethics of factory farming?original ↗
9 Nov 2024
How do we make our group conversations better?original ↗
3 Nov 2024
Three hypotheses to consider when a medical issue can’t be diagnosedoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2024
Breaking out of Futility Loopsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2024
Has every made-up anecdote already happened?original ↗
14 Sept 2024
A major (overlooked) reason why smart people fall for stupid thingsoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2024
How are personality traits distributed in the most popular personality frameworks?original ↗
12 Sept 2024
Squeeglee – a missing emotion word in English for when you experience something that’s cuteoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2024
Conducting Instantaneous Experimentsoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2024
What happens when your beliefs can’t change?original ↗
13 Aug 2024
Companies shirking their responsibility to make AI text detectableoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2024
Run Your Own Organic No-Prep City Scavenger Huntoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2024
Understanding the Landscape of Viewpoints on the Risks and Benefits of AIoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2024
Merlin: a tribute to a cat I loveoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2024
Always Conduct the “Simplest Valid Analysis”original ↗
10 Jul 2024
Creating more moments of attentionoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2024
The “Lizardman’s Constant” Causes the “Nonsense Factor:” a hidden source of false conclusions in researchoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
Four extremely bad ideas that have been popularoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
How heritable are human traits like personality, height, mental health, physical health, education, religiosity, and conservatism? (h^2 estimates)original ↗
12 Jun 2024
Are happiness and well-being the only things that people value?original ↗
5 Jun 2024
Categorizing types of beliefs: Valuable Truths, Bitter Pills, Philosophical Disorders and Helpful Falsehoodsoriginal ↗
25 May 2024
How can big problems get solved?original ↗
5 May 2024
How to spot real expertiseoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2024
Three motivations for believing original ↗
20 Apr 2024
The benefits and soul-crushing downsides of A.I. progressoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2024
In memory of Daniel Kahneman, who accelerated our understanding of the mindoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2024
Seven simple but effective methods for improving your connection with othersoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2024
Does money buy happiness, according to science?original ↗
29 Feb 2024
I’m an extreme non-credentialist – what about you?original ↗
28 Feb 2024
Do we all have strange beliefs?original ↗
2 Feb 2024
When Is Gossip Good?original ↗
28 Jan 2024
How great is the U.S., really?original ↗
5 Jan 2024

2023

Think smarter about what’s “good”original ↗
20 Dec 2023
Dichotomizer (or Oversimplifiers) vs. Difference Deniers: a dynamic regarding group differences that leads to rage and confusionoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2023
Understanding two of the weirdest theorems in math: Gödel’s incompleteness original ↗
17 Nov 2023
Four reasons art is made – and how they shape the art worldoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2023
Who is Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) really, and how could he have done what he did? – three theories and a lot of evidenceoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2023
Improving your feed using the Law of Social Media Manifestationoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2023
Some Signs of Harmful or Untrustworthy Relationshipsoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2023
How to make LLMs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude work better: my favorite custom instructionsoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2023
People often ask – why do girls like bad boys? But do women like bad guys, or do they actually prefer “powerful good guys”?original ↗
25 Oct 2023
Human universals: 6 remarkable things I think are true of nearly all adultsoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2023
Don’t let justified terror or rage cause you to do immoral thingsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2023
What is Lightgassing? A way we harm people by validating their false beliefsoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2023
Eight ways you can validate someone’s emotions in a healthy way (and four strategies to avoid)original ↗
2 Oct 2023
Five rules for good science (and how they can help you spot bad science)original ↗
22 Sept 2023
Three reasons to be cautious when reading data-driven “explanations”original ↗
11 Sept 2023
How to avoid feeding anti-science sentimentsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2023
Dealing with chronic pain: it’s in the way you moveoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2023
Paving the road to hell with good intentions: four examples of good actors screwing things uporiginal ↗
5 Aug 2023
Six fresh takes on wisdom to help you become wiseroriginal ↗
1 Aug 2023
Valuism and X: how Valuism sheds light on other domains – Part 5 of the sequence on Valuismoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2023
False Beliefs Held by Intellectual Giantsoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2023
If you think technological progress is inevitable, you’re mistakenoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2023
What countries have the most billion-dollar startup companies per capita?original ↗
28 Jun 2023
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