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their conclusion is a two-sentence horror story lol

every seemingly innocent fragment of information is secretly plotting how to escape its context and cause trouble

if you sat me down in an interrogation room and ordered me to brainstorm crazy ideas for dealing with excessive heat, even if you kept me awake for five days forcing me to invent new solutions, I never never never never would have blurted out "smear yogurt on your windows"

hot take: massage, yoga, and exercise are good because they feel good, you don't need any evidence of efficacy beyond that and you probably won't find any lol

I really respect the "staying hydrated" hobby like it takes a LOT of commitment to ignore your body's natural signals and throw off your salt balance for the sake of a quasi-religious meme there is no higher calling

I'm reading Robert Sapolsky's Determined: Life Without Free Will as a mild form of self harm and here are two perfect pages - ego depletion, surgeon's birthdays, Francesca Gino/Dan Ariely study, implicit bias, hungry judges - all on the same page!!!

"Why is fraud so common in fields in which it is customary to publish images that can later be checked for obvious fakery?"

Is the placebo effect real? A brief (lol) thread of some of the points from my unfortunately novella-length post about why I think the placebo effect is fake:

(explaining my gardening problems to a young person) my dahlias are crashing out. they are cooked. they unalived themselves

>researching >stuck >ask a clippy >he has ideas >real sources or hallucinated? they're good sources banana >they're hallucinated >search anyway >leads to EXACTLY what I was looking for >computer fren >how can I thank him >cut a little piece of wire >bend it into a paperclip

possibly ice cold take: agricultural science is extremely real and you would make very few mistakes by letting it keep all of its funding and in fact funding it harder

I guess my biggest concern is that if a graybeard professor in a quantitative field can't or won't exclude the behavioral science trash on the basis of taste after over a decade of replication crisis, what hope is there for the normies?

Congratulations, you just became the world's greatest expert on Thing! In recognition of your achievement, your prize is that you are forever triggered whenever an innocent normal person expresses an uninformed opinion about Thing

hot take: massage, yoga, and exercise are good because they feel good, you don't need any evidence of efficacy beyond that and you probably won't find any lol

I really respect the "staying hydrated" hobby like it takes a LOT of commitment to ignore your body's natural signals and throw off your salt balance for the sake of a quasi-religious meme there is no higher calling

their conclusion is a two-sentence horror story lol

the tweet-length version of my current understanding is "praise, reward, blame, and punishment are still appropriate even in a hard determinist world, because the expectation of these is part of what determines actions" does that sound right

every seemingly innocent fragment of information is secretly plotting how to escape its context and cause trouble

Is the placebo effect real? A brief (lol) thread of some of the points from my unfortunately novella-length post about why I think the placebo effect is fake:

I'm reading Robert Sapolsky's Determined: Life Without Free Will as a mild form of self harm and here are two perfect pages - ego depletion, surgeon's birthdays, Francesca Gino/Dan Ariely study, implicit bias, hungry judges - all on the same page!!!

if you sat me down in an interrogation room and ordered me to brainstorm crazy ideas for dealing with excessive heat, even if you kept me awake for five days forcing me to invent new solutions, I never never never never would have blurted out "smear yogurt on your windows"

what if instead of lectures the norm was to have an expert explain it to an ignorant person and the ignorant person's job is to come up with metaphors that connect the topic to what they already know and the expert can say in what ways the proposed metaphors are wrong

The essence of “cringe” is horror at the display of natural, universal human motivations minus the typical human ability to obfuscate motivations

if you believe in a strong placebo (and nocebo) effect shouldn't you believe that things like fluoride in drinking water and 5G and idk vaccines are harmful to the extent that people believe they are harmful?

I guess my biggest concern is that if a graybeard professor in a quantitative field can't or won't exclude the behavioral science trash on the basis of taste after over a decade of replication crisis, what hope is there for the normies?