Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it. -Nietzsche
Rob Sica
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🔪"Capacity debunking doesn’t primarily target the process that produced our moral faculties. It targets what those faculties do."
New guest post by my PhD student @hellovic.bsky.social. She writes about her new working paper finding that most Americans don't oppose AI. But those who do treat it as a moral issue, refusing tradeoffs and even money. Why that makes AI debates so hard.
open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
Will young Americans become long-term democrats?
Elite polarization helps young people align their cultural issue positions with their partisanship. Up to now, that’s been helping Democrats
New #ScienceOfPolitics podcast/transcript with Delia Baldassarri
www.niskanencenter.org/will-young-a...
🔪"People who prioritize free speech are more racially tolerant, not less"
"CBT tries to sweep emotion away before asking what it knows. If therapy is headed in this direction, it *should* be handed over to AI."
🙀"[Abortion] policies in Democratic-controlled states are actually furthest from the average voter"
"novel evidence of preferences for same sex friends with traits that likely predicted the flow of benefits within long-term cooperative relationships in the environments of our ancestors"
Pretty much agree with Nagel on Rorty: when it comes to politics (vs philosophy) he says all the right things...
😸"Rorty’s defense of liberalism was calculated to drive his fellow liberal Habermas insane"
🔪"it’s not enough to say that he must be incoherent because objectivity is impossible"
Rob Sica
Delia Baldassarri finds that millennial and gen Z are now aligning their issue positions with partisanship as much as older generations.
Evolutionary debunking arguments come in various flavors, and Andrew's critique only does violence to some of them, leaving other versions largely intact
Does protecting free speech harm vulnerable minorities? A new analysis of over 600,000 people suggests the opposite, finding that individuals who prioritize open expression hold significantly more tol...
<p>Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, we've been told a simple story: red states are radically out of step with public opinion. But what if that's not actually the reality? On this episode, we speak with ...
What traits are attractive in a same-sex friend? We test the hypothesis that same-sex friendships evolved as cooperative relationships, so people will…
