book rec #1 from bakker's blog

book rec #2 from bakker's blog

make sure to click over to the "more about the willat effect" post too. basically, its like the evil handmaiden of choice paralysis-- when you do decide, it makes the other things no longer acceptable!

bias superhero dan kahneman reminds us that the rich and lucky are as perceptually and cognitively biased as the rest of us-- but they dont want to actually know that

i kept expecting them to cite hanson's near/far distinction but it never happened! pretty clearly provides more evidence for that, though

belief persistence, affect + reasoning, etc

jesse prinz!!! he came to IU to give a talk on emotions + morality and it's what got me into ethics in the first place :D

useful less wrong post of the night #2

useful less wrong post of the night #1

basically, eliezer yudkowsky wrote a fanfic where harry potter is anasûrimbor kellhus. if you've read harry potter, and recognize the names kahneman and tversky, there is no reason for you not to be already reading this story

a whole blog about people being wrong! here is one about being wrong in the justice system

all about disgust and morality

haidt is great. thats really all there is to say on the matter.

i need to keep reading this until it is as natural as breathing

ariely's new book! i think i will get this :D

not a huge fan of the scribd interface but if you like it, here is a thing about biases

its all about intelligence, or lack thereof ^_^'

ask yourself right now if philadelphia is further north than rome. then read this article. mind= aksfllaghahbnrnkl

howto: challenge moral fashions, have heretical thoughts

excerpt from a fantastic looking book, including the must-read appendix of major arguments for god (along with answers/comments on those arguments)

such a good defense of the power of accepting reality itself that its impossible not to bookmark

so economists cant even keep up with cogsci, but they have insight to offer in other fields? the whole field sounds like its in serious need of help, and not by these guys

an outline of ariely's book, predictably irrational, which i should purchase

doctorow gives us a great minddump on lehrer's "how we decide" (plus an amazon link)

it maddens me, as someone with even just a modest understanding of cognitive science, that there are people who can exit university with the thought that humans are, on the whole, very rational animals. this literally drives me mad.

a huge erudite essay on "seven ways of avoiding autonomy", including "religion, drifting, allegiance to a movement, allegiance to a school of thought, exegetical thinking, Manichaeism, moral rationalism", plus extras such as "the faith that one is riding the wave of the future", never standing alone, and marriage (it also appears to be the first part of an even longer book?)

another book!

eliezer lays out some good rules of thumb for oral debates of morality

90 minutes of the anthropology of metamagical schizotypicalism! wow! makes me wanna take an anthro course (i know, right?!)

this guy is the best, he needs to be every ted talk

some good points on (neuro)aesthetics

an israeli psuedo-count-rugen tells us about predictable irrationality and how people cheat

the case of max muller and why we should trust in popper

lol @ homo economicus

the quicker everyone treats emotions as largely rational/predictable, then the sooner we can cut thru another load of bullshit :D