Another great essay from David Pinsoff,
"The biggest bullshit story of all is that humans are special: we’re not mere animals, but something grander and otherworldly... This bullshit story helps us act like the worst kind of animals while seeing ourselves as angels."
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Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Professor at UC Merced and the Santa Fe Institute.
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Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
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Social psychologist, UCLA; Director, UCLA Center for Friendship Research
Evolutionary and cognitive psychologist. Author, Not Born Yesterday (http://tinyurl.com/yyh929ns), The Enigma of Reason (http://tinyurl.com/6hbpn84).
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Author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True. Writing a book about AI. Publisher of the Nonzero Newsletter & host of the Nonzero Podcast. https://nonzero.substack.com/
Dad, recovering researcher, instructor at Harvard Extension, evolutionary psychologist, posts occasionally when my demons quiet down
Assistant Professor, UM6P School of Collective Intelligence | PhD UCMCogSci: collective intelligence, systems collapse, complex systems, networks, etc.
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke University studying kids & culture. Director of the Mind & Culture Lab. Mom x3. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
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I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Kent, interested in cultural evolution, cooperation, and moral psychology with a focus on artificial intelligence.
anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Associate Professor, Psychology @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Researching thinking & reasoning, misinformation, social media, AI, belief, metacognition, B.S., and various other keywords. 🇨🇦
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Evolutionary Judgment & Decision Making researcher, Father, and Husband. Mainly reposts about data, logic, rationality, & theory. Opinions are my own.
Accidental behavioural economist
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