Why Hypnosis Matters in the Age of AI
When most people hear the word “hypnosis,” two images usually appear. One is the stage performer who selects volunteers and […]
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Why We Often Talk Past Each Other
Thomas Sowell spent decades watching the same arguments recur in policy debates. On one side were people who spoke of
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Steve Hargadon: The Primary Gender Paradox
Why the sexes are mostly the same and obviously different, and why both sides of the debate have been right
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Birth Order, Temperament, and the Adaptive Mind
Introduction: The Persistent Puzzle Parents and siblings often notice clear differences that seem tied to birth order. Firstborns can appear
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Birth Order, Temperament, and the Adaptive Mind
Introduction: The Persistent Puzzle Parents and siblings often notice clear differences that seem tied to birth order. Firstborns can appear
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An Introduction to My Thinking
In the spring of 2026 I asked six frontier language models the same carefully framed question. Independently, without knowledge of
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Why Synthetic Data Training Is AI Drinking Its Own Kool-Aid
The frontier AI labs have a supply problem. They have already ingested most of the useful human-written text in existence,
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Empire Is Always with Us
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) was one of the most original and unsettling American writers of the twentieth century. Best known
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Why Ignoring Human Nature Is So Financially Attractive, So Pervasive, and So Damaging
Motivational Blindness is the tendency to design institutions as if accurate models of human motivation were optional. The blindness is
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My Version of Plato’s Allegory
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave has lasted two and a half thousand years, and stories last by being true about