Tag: philosophy
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Sam Harris, Jon Haidt, and Bias
I was fascinated by my colleague and mentor Jon Haidt’s analysis of the rate of certainty words in Sam Harris’ books, and the reaction it sparked. I recently came upon Daniel Miessler’s post, where he defends Harris thusly: Haidt makes a major mistake here by thinking (and saying) that because individuals are bad at judging…
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Men and women should be the same size
For years I’ve thought it’s ridiculous that women are smaller than men. There’s no reason why we should just accept this. Embodied cognition is an endlessly interesting area of research. I don’t know what’s been done on the condition of chronic smallness with respect to other beings, mates, authorities, and so forth. The fact that…