#cognitivebias — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cognitivebias, aggregated by home.social.
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Ministry Proposes Tax on Nostalgia Posts to Save the Environment
The Ministry has proposed a Nostalgia Tax on every "Only 90s kids will understand..." post. The revenue will help data centers survive the endless storage of recycled memories while an official investigation examines whether the good old days were actually good—or just remembered that way. -
I hired Claude to articulate my thoughts on the self-improvement industry…
…and, frankly, LinkedIn and pop psychology. I leverage my notion of ontological grammar.
#philosophy #psychology #blog #podcast #selfhelp #language #power #reason #rhetoric #personadevelopment #bollocks #vulnerability #writing #reading #cognitivebias #llms #claudeai
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The trouble with facts is that they cannot be directly observed.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/22/the-trouble-with-facts/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #epistemology #ontology #facts #objectivity #mediation #interpretation #causation #abduction #posthoc #cognitivebias #perception #sensemaking #philosophyofscience #philosophyoflaw #legalreasoning #intent #responsibility #evidence #experts #surveillance #mapandterritory #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #antimodernity #blog #podcast #science -
Heading to Helsinki for #EPH2025 (Nov 11‑14)! I’m thrilled for our two new posters:
- An umbrella review of behavioral factors influencing the efficiency and effectiveness of electronic health records (EHRs). https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/35/Supplement_4/ckaf161.1289/8301791
- HPV Vaccine Communication Strategies: Three-Arm RCT Using Behavioural Insights in Tuscany, Italy. https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/35/Supplement_4/ckaf161.050/8302663Can’t wait to connect with fellow professionals across Europe who are passionate about #DigitalHealth, #BehaviorScience, #CognitiveBias, and #PublicHealth.
More info: https://ephconference.eu
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Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity: Understanding MAGA and the stupidity mind virus.
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc?si=FVXy-UwJwFDDwzTA
#Bonhoeffer #psychology
#Theorofstupidity
#StupidityMindVirus #MAGA #PoliticalPsychology #CriticalThinking #SocialDynamics #PowerAndStupidity #MindManipulation #CognitiveBias #MassPsychology #PoliticalInfluence #StupidityVsEvil
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This is a really good paper about, why you hear so often that the "kids these days" are so much worse than earlier generations. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aav5916
They identify 2 main reasons
"A person-specific tendency to notice the limitations of others where one excels and a memory bias projecting one’s current qualities onto the youth of the past. When observing current children, we compare our biased memory to the present and a decline appears."
#memoryBias #cognitiveBias #kids 1/2