The Why of Human History
For those of you who have tracked the tsunami of activity from me lately, you’ll know that I have been […]
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Steve Hargadon: Our Performative Lives
There used to be a small class of people who lived public-facing lives for a living. Actors, politicians, royalty, clergy,
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Steve Hargadon: Intellectual Capture
There is a mechanism running in your life right now that organizes more of your behavior than you would like
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The Law of Inevitable Exploitation (L.I.E)
There is a principle operating beneath virtually every system that humans build, sustain, and participate in. It is not a
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Steve Hargadon: The Adaptive Mind
There is a term at the center of my (r)evolutionary psychology framework that I have been developing that I want
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Steve Hargadon: Structural Victim Blaming
Structural victim blaming is the mechanism by which exploitative systems ensure the damage they cause is narrated back to individuals
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Behavior Shaping (and AI, of Course)
There is a form of pressure that operates in every close relationship, continuously, sometimes invisibly, and the people applying it
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Steve Hargadon: Programmed for Approval
One of the most consistent criticisms leveled against large language models is that they are sycophantic. They tell you what
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A Feature, Not a Bug — And That’s the Problem
James Madison didn’t have the vocabulary of evolutionary psychology. But when he wrote in Federalist No. 10 that the causes
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What AI Might Be Teaching Us About Intelligence
Watch people talk. Not what they say, but the act itself. At a party, in a meeting, at school pickup,