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Paul Bloom

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Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/

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Psych/Phil peeps: Any recommendations for a good, accessible, and _recent_ review/discussion of the issue of whether people are rational (including discussion of the work of Kahneman/Tversky, Gigerenzer, etc.)? Thanks in advance!

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New Substack!
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Cuu4Jj...

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New post: Book recommendations from the last two years or so!
smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/my-favorit...

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This was a fun one, with a great team of collaborators.

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Postdoc opportunity to work in my lab at the University of Toronto. Please spread the word! (this is a corrected version of the last post, which had the start date wrong):

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Postdoc opportunity to work in my lab at the University of Toronto. Please spread the word!

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yes, if you go into my substack I have one on exactly that topics

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Language mavens: Can anyone point me to an analysis of paragraph length in English-language books over the last few hundred years? My sense is that they've been getting shorter, but would love to see real data. Thanks!

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Totally agree. But this is an argument for writing your own first draft. I'm not sure there's a problem with using AI for proof-reading, suggesting alternative wordings, etc. (I can't think of any skill that doesn't benefit from feedback)

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interesting quesiton. I agree that you have to find your voice. But I don't think ChatGPT would get in the way of that if you just use it for proof-reading/feedback. (Just as it's not a problem if you use a friend for that.)

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or at least having to pay other people's debts is illegitimate? It does seem a bit brutal -- Dad dies, and all of a sudden I have to sell my house to pay for all the money he owes ...

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Eric is super-creative and a great writer -- I can't wait to read this.

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that's very cool. But I guess it makes sense under the notion that inheritance is thought of as a type of gift?

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