On Babies and Bathwater; Or, Reflections on Broadening My Perspective
The saying goes: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Rather than a plea to protect infants, the idiom is understood to mean: “don’t reject the essential along with […]
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Humans Are Weird, & Other Lessons From Animal Behavior: Interview w Dr. Laurie Santos
Two weeks ago was the Yale Humanist Community’s first ever Humanist Haven, a monthly nonreligious community gathering. The first speaker at the first meeting was Dr. Laurie Santos, a professor […]
The Housewarming Party: A Parable of Algorithms, Heuristics, and Behavioral Economics
Imagine that you—a 22-year-old, freshly graduated, puffed-up and proper psychology major—have just been hired at a rapidly expanding tech company in Arizona. Despite having all the relevant technological know-how, you […]
Applied Sentience 