Summer picture edition
A "things that caught my eye" interlude for Reasonable People
Reasonable People
Psychological science on rationality, reason and persuasion
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Gradually, then all at once
Why belief change is like bankruptcy
Predicting human behaviour
Why it is hard, and why LLMs may not help
Social thinking
How other people, even if just imagined, can help puncture the illusion of understanding
Striking evidence for forced experimentation
A natural experiment shows how we always have something to learn, even about the things we are most familiar with.
Another algorithm is possible
How social media could easily be changed to stop us hating each other so much
AI systems out-persuade expert humans. Panic?
Quick review of a compelling new report
Why we like to believe other people are stupid
Reason sells, but who's buying?
The Lizardman constant
Important context whenever you hear polling data
Confirmation bias in search
when technology panders to an existing weakness of human psychology