On TheoryOfReddit Brian Keegan has posted an open letter regarding Reddit’s tightening of their API access, especially the cutting off of Pushshift’s access …

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Like the startling clap that follows distant rumbles of thunder, artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived. Stunning images and precocious prose can be generated at the …

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In a 99% Invisible episode, Avery Trufelman stated that America’s 19th-century preoccupation with the self and self-help was reflected in the fact that Webster …

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What people believe about their and others’ beliefs, as well as how those beliefs are expressed, can dramatically affect decisions: groups can come to decisions …

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Yesterday I was surprised to see widespread headlines that Wikipedia’s “first edit” was being auctioned as a NFT. That wasn’t right, and I …

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Though people have always hacked their lives (e.g., Ben Franklin is claimed as an early example), the birth of “life hacking” is dated as …

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[Update: on 2020-Aug-092 Wikipedian Biogeographist improved my biography.]

My English Wikipedia bio has sucked for as long as it’s existed. (Sometimes it doesn’t …

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Earlier this year I posted a summary of Lepora and Goodin’s (2013) framework for complicity; I now have a draft making use of that …

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What is complicity? Lepora and Goodin (2013) provide the most comprehensive framework for parsing and assessing the moral blameworthiness of complicit behavior.

In their analysis …

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In a 2001 Wired article, writer Steve Silberman characterized autism as the “geek syndrome.” Given that autism is partially hereditary, Silberman asked if the concentrations …

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