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Treating stuff as sacred interferes with thinking carefully and analytically about it: When we talk about sacred stuff, our minds focus more on style, metaphor, word connotation, and an overall feel, and less on the literal meanings of words and order. And it seems to me that…
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This is an excellent 2014 book on how men differ from women: In Warriors and Worriers, psychologist Joyce Benenson presents a new theory of sex…
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In 2011, law prof Leo Katz published an interesting book, Why The Law is Perverse. Katz first lists many ways that the law is perverse, especially…
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What I’m about to say is pretty obvious to most artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, but I think others might benefit from hearing it. In general…
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Consider this iconic seduction scene from '58 movie The Lovers, from 58:55 on. It is dark, quiet, behind a large house at night. Jeanne walks past…
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From 2nd grade on my family lived in Southern California, and so we went to visit Disneyland about once a year during my childhood, trips that I greatly…
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According to Durkheim (and me), humans prefer to bind together not so much by directly and explicitly valuing each other, but instead indirectly, by…
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Some people think that number of publications or citations, weighted by venue prestige, is an adequate measure of one key kind of academic productivity…
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