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Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
I do believe that you can understand most of moral psychology by viewing it as a form of enlightened self-interest, and if it’s self-interest, then it’s easily explained by Darwinian natural selection working at the level of the individual. Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff
@annelaurelecunff
Through the Looking Glass, and What Zheludev et al. (2024) Found There
Ivan N. Zheludevopen.substack.com
In the long run, scientists who still subscribe to the basic emotion method are very likely helping to create the universality that they believe they are discovering.
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
Amy Blumenfield
@amygeek

In The Bottom Line, I presented the dilemma of two boxes, only one of which contains a diamond, with various signs and portents as evidence. I dichotomized the curious inquirer and the clever arguer. The curious inquirer writes down all the signs and portents, and processes them, and finally writes down “Therefore, I estimate an 85% probability tha
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