Human Stupidity
The Planning Fallacy: Why Everything Takes Longer Than You Think
The Sydney Opera House was supposed to take six years to build and cost seven million dollars. It took fourteen years and cost 102 million dollars. The Sco…
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Human Stupidity
The Sydney Opera House was supposed to take six years to build and cost seven million dollars. It took fourteen years and cost 102 million dollars. The Sco…
Human Stupidity
People are more afraid of flying than driving, even though driving is dramatically more dangerous per mile traveled. People buy lottery tickets — a tax o…
Human Psychology
In the 1960s, Martin Seligman and Steven Maier were conducting experiments with dogs, running standard classical conditioning procedures involving mild ele…
Human Psychology
You probably know someone who aced every exam, got into a top university, and still manages to make baffling choices in their personal life. Maybe that per…
How Claude Works
Using AI tools like Claude raises real ethical questions that thoughtful users should think through. Not all of them have clean answers, but being delibera…
AI Ethics & Tips
Let's talk about the stuff nobody puts in their "10 ways to master ChatGPT" threads. First: hallucinations. ChatGPT will confidently lie to you. I once as…
Human Stupidity
There is a version of yourself you carry around in your head that is more consistent, more principled, and more logical than the version that actually move…
Ethics
As AI tools become more powerful and accessible, the onus is on us, the users, to employ them responsibly. Being an ethical AI user isn't about avoiding th…
Ethics
With great power comes great responsibility. As AI becomes more integrated into our lives, it’s crucial to have an honest conversation about its ethical…
Rise of America
By 1980, the United States was in a bad mood. Inflation had been running in double digits. The economy was mired in stagflation — the combination of high…
Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer was the pessimistic counterpoint to Hegel’s optimism. He argued that the world is not a rational, progressive unfolding, but the mani…
Philosophy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a polymath and optimist, famously argued that we live in the "best of all possible worlds." This claim, later satirized by Volta…
Rise of America
The nineteen twenties in America were years of dizzying transformation in the texture of everyday life. The automobile went from novelty to necessity. Radi…
Adventure
One Piece shattered the "curse" of bad anime adaptations when it premiered in 2023. The live-action series captured the spirit of Eiichiro Oda's beloved ma…
Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most important technological advancements of the modern world. AI refers to computer systems designed to perform…
Human Psychology
Roy Baumeister introduced the idea of ego depletion in the late 1990s. The hypothesis was simple and compelling: self-control draws on a limited resource…
Human Psychology
Edward Thorndike named the halo effect in 1920 based on his research with military officers. He noticed that officers' ratings of their soldiers were highl…
Machine Learning
I remember training my first model and seeing 99% accuracy on the training data. I thought I was a genius. Then I ran it on the test data and it got 50%. T…
Human Psychology
Here is a statistic: global child mortality has fallen by more than half since 1990, representing tens of millions of lives saved. Most people have no accu…
Human Psychology
In 1978, Philip Brickman and colleagues published a study that should have been more famous than it became. They compared the happiness levels of lottery w…
Human Stupidity
If you spend any time in online debates, you have probably seen the Dunning-Kruger effect invoked. Someone says something confidently wrong, and someone el…
Human Stupidity
After a plane crash receives weeks of saturation news coverage, airline ticket sales drop significantly. After a shark attack makes the front page, beach a…
Human Stupidity
Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon is a place where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average…
Human Psychology
Before you answer the next question, spin an imaginary wheel of fortune. It stops on 65. Now: what percentage of African countries are members of the Unite…
Machine Learning
It’s easy to get caught up in the technical coolness of ML and forget about the human impact. I’ve had to sit in meetings where we realized our trainin…
How Claude Works
What did Claude read to become what it is? The training data for large language models is one of the least transparent aspects of AI development, but what'…
Business
The business landscape is being reshaped by AI, and it's not just the tech giants who are benefiting. Small and medium-sized businesses are leveraging AI t…
Ethics
I was in a webinar last week where a developer said he lets his AI agent decide who gets hired for entry-level positions based on resume screening. It made…
Crime Drama
Talvar is a chilling, fact-based exploration of the 2008 Noida double murder case that gripped India. Meghna Gulzar directs with remarkable restraint, pres…
AI Psychology
Ask most AI chatbots a tough question. Should I quit my job? Is my friend using me? Am I wrong in this argument? Nine times out of ten, the bot agrees with…