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Wow, an ode to the mundane—because nothing screams #innovation like sticking to the "boring" #tech that nobody wants to change. 🙄🎉 Apparently, the secret to #success is having a boss with a magical touch for "technical decision-making" that only a select few can appreciate. 🧙♂️✨
https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology #mundane #decisionmaking #boringtech #HackerNews #ngated -
Wow, an ode to the mundane—because nothing screams #innovation like sticking to the "boring" #tech that nobody wants to change. 🙄🎉 Apparently, the secret to #success is having a boss with a magical touch for "technical decision-making" that only a select few can appreciate. 🧙♂️✨
https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology #mundane #decisionmaking #boringtech #HackerNews #ngated -
**Conditional Probability:** The likelihood of an event occurring *given* another event has already occurred.
Ex: P(A|B) = P(A and B) / P(B).
Pro-Tip: The given event B *defines* your new, reduced sample space. Focus only on outcomes where B happened!
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New #preprint just dropped on #psyarxiv
Kanter, Haldar, Redish(2026). A novel view of microfinance: implications of the neuroscience of decision-making. psyArXiv.
We propose a novel perspective on what makes microfinance institutions work. We argue that the key is how the institutional structures interact with the computational underpinnings of decision-making to engender #trust .
Part of a new series I am apparently building on what it means to trust and what underlies the success of societies. 🤔
A collaboration with experts in #microfinance, and #sociology connecting to the #neuroscience of #DecisionMaking. And #economics.
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New #preprint just dropped on #psyarxiv
Kanter, Haldar, Redish(2026). A novel view of microfinance: implications of the neuroscience of decision-making. psyArXiv.
We propose a novel perspective on what makes microfinance institutions work. We argue that the key is how the institutional structures interact with the computational underpinnings of decision-making to engender #trust .
Part of a new series I am apparently building on what it means to trust and what underlies the success of societies. 🤔
A collaboration with experts in #microfinance, and #sociology connecting to the #neuroscience of #DecisionMaking. And #economics.
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Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. I read that in high school and thought it was dumb. What if IBM sucks. The sentence is not advice about IBM. It is advice about being safe from blame, which is not the same as being right.
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Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. I read that in high school and thought it was dumb. What if IBM sucks. The sentence is not advice about IBM. It is advice about being safe from blame, which is not the same as being right.
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People who think out loud have a distinct advantage when it comes to making smart decisions
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People who think out loud have a distinct advantage when it comes to making smart decisions
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DATE: August 10, 2026 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The psychological factors associated with acting on a conspiracy theory
URL: https://www.psypost.org/the-psychological-factors-associated-with-acting-on-a-conspiracy-theory/
New research published in the British Journal of Social Psychology suggests that people who believe in conspiracy theories do not always act on those beliefs in a uniform way. Instead, the likelihood that a person will act on a conspiracy theory tends to depend on how certain they are about the belief and how relevant they think it is for their daily decisions. These findings provide evidence that specific qualities of a belief shape how it translates into everyday behavior.
Conspiracy beliefs involve the idea that a small group of people is secretly working to cause harm to society. Past research indicates that these beliefs can be related to real-world actions like avoiding vaccines or voting for specific candidates. However, the average statistical relationship between believing in a conspiracy and actually taking action is quite weak.
“People often want to know whether conspiracy beliefs predict behavior,” said Javier Granados Samayoa, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Texas Christian University. Granados Samayoa noted that reviewing large collections of past studies, known as meta-analyses, reveals an inconsistent pattern. “If you look at meta-analyses on this topic, the answer is that there is evidence for a relation, but it tends to be somewhat modest and the strength can vary such that sometimes the relation is large and sometimes it is not.”
To understand why some people act on their beliefs and others do not, Granados Samayoa and co-author Dolores Albarracín designed a framework based on belief strength. Belief strength refers to the meta-cognitive judgments people make about their own thoughts. In other words, it is how people evaluate and understand what they believe.
“So what might account for this variability? We proposed that conspiracy beliefs have different qualities that influence whether the conspiracy belief-behavior relation is weaker or stronger,” Granados Samayoa explained. “For this research, we focused on the following qualities: the certainty with which people hold the belief, the importance of the belief, and how actionable (i.e., useful and relevant for making decisions).”
The authors proposed a step-by-step pathway. They suspected that conspiracy beliefs shape attitudes, which are a person’s positive or negative evaluations of a specific action.
“We also know that beliefs often have an impact on behavior by influencing intermediary variables so we used people’s attitudes toward the behavior in question as a mediator variable,” Granados Samayoa added. In turn, the researchers predicted that these intermediary attitudes would forecast actual behavior.
To test this model, the researchers carried out three separate studies. The first study included 1,959 participants from an online survey platform. The authors measured participants’ belief in the great replacement conspiracy theory, which falsely claims a secretive group is trying to make White Americans a minority group.
Participants answered questions about how certain they were in this belief and how relevant it was for their decisions. The researchers also measured their attitudes toward actions like voting for politicians who support strict immigration policies. To ensure accuracy, the scientists controlled for demographic variables like age, race, and sex.
The first study indicated that believing in this conspiracy theory predicted more positive attitudes toward anti-immigration actions. This association was strongest among people who felt highly certain about their belief. The link was amplified even further when participants felt their belief was highly actionable, meaning they saw it as a useful guide for their behavior.
“I was surprised that actionability mainly functioned to amplify the influence of certainty and importance in shaping the conspiracy belief-behavior relation,” Granados Samayoa told PsyPost, noting that actionability intensified the other qualities rather than driving the relationship on its own.
The second study utilized a nationally representative sample of 2,572 adults in the United States. The scientists measured beliefs in conspiracy theories claiming that COVID-19 vaccines contain microchips or alter DNA. Participants rated how important the issue of vaccination was to them and how actionable they found their beliefs.
The authors also assessed attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccine and asked participants if they had actually received at least one dose of the vaccine. This study accounted for factors like age, gender, race, education, political ideology, and income.
The second study provided evidence for the researchers’ full pathway. Belief in vaccine conspiracies predicted negative attitudes toward vaccination, which in turn predicted a lower likelihood of actually getting the vaccine. The negative association between the conspiracy belief and vaccine attitudes was strongest when the issue was rated as highly important. Just like in the first study, high perceived actionability amplified this effect.
The third study involved a sample of 1,551 adults in the United States and focused on the political domain. In the first phase of the study, participants reported their belief in a deep state conspiracy theory claiming that government officials were illegally working to undermine Donald Trump. The researchers measured the certainty and importance of this belief, as well as its perceived actionability.
They also measured participants’ attitudes toward political behaviors like donating money to a campaign or sharing information online. Three months later, the researchers followed up with the same participants. They asked how often the participants had actually engaged in those specific political behaviors during the intervening months.
The third study matched the patterns seen in the previous two. Belief in the deep state conspiracy theory robustly predicted positive attitudes toward supportive political actions. This link was strongest for people who reported high certainty and importance regarding their belief, combined with high perceived actionability. Additionally, those positive attitudes successfully predicted the actual frequency of political behaviors over the three-month follow-up period.
These patterns highlight a core finding across different domains. “Conspiracy beliefs are not created equal,” Granados Samayoa said. “You may have two people who seem to endorse a conspiracy theory to the same degree, but our work suggests that additional qualities of that belief like certainty and importance will shape how strongly that conspiracy belief predicts behavior, with actionability further amplifying this relation. Given that concerns about the negative behavioral consequences of conspiracy beliefs are so prominent, I think this additional information is worth keeping in mind when making decisions.”
These studies rely on statistical models to trace the pathway from beliefs to attitudes to behavior. This approach tracks variables in a way that limits the ability to definitively establish cause and effect. “Given our focus on measuring conspiracy beliefs, attitudes, and behavior as they exist in the real-world, our data are correlational,” Granados Samayoa explained.
It is possible that engaging in a behavior actually changes a person’s attitudes or beliefs, rather than the sequence flowing strictly from belief to action. The findings indicate that behavior is highly dependent on how a person subjectively weighs their own thoughts. If a belief is not viewed as important or useful for daily life, it tends to remain just a thought rather than a catalyst for action.
Future research could explore whether these properties of belief strength apply to non-conspiracy beliefs in the same way. Researchers might also test interventions designed to change a belief’s perceived actionability. By encouraging people to see a conspiratorial belief as less relevant to their personal choices, it might be possible to reduce harmful behaviors even if the underlying belief remains unchanged.
Going forward, Granados Samayoa hopes to expand on this framework. “I would like to provide a more comprehensive account of the different qualities of conspiracy beliefs that can shape how strongly they predict behavior,” he said.
The study, “Belief strength and the attitudinal and behavioural correlates of conspiracy beliefs,” was authored by Javier A. Granados Samayoa and Dolores Albarracín.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/the-psychological-factors-associated-with-acting-on-a-conspiracy-theory/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #ConspiracyBeliefs #BeliefStrength #Actionability #VaccineConspiracy #DeepState #PoliticalBehavior #AttitudesAndBehavior #Certainty #DecisionMaking #BehavioralPsychology
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DATE: August 10, 2026 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The psychological factors associated with acting on a conspiracy theory
URL: https://www.psypost.org/the-psychological-factors-associated-with-acting-on-a-conspiracy-theory/
New research published in the British Journal of Social Psychology suggests that people who believe in conspiracy theories do not always act on those beliefs in a uniform way. Instead, the likelihood that a person will act on a conspiracy theory tends to depend on how certain they are about the belief and how relevant they think it is for their daily decisions. These findings provide evidence that specific qualities of a belief shape how it translates into everyday behavior.
Conspiracy beliefs involve the idea that a small group of people is secretly working to cause harm to society. Past research indicates that these beliefs can be related to real-world actions like avoiding vaccines or voting for specific candidates. However, the average statistical relationship between believing in a conspiracy and actually taking action is quite weak.
“People often want to know whether conspiracy beliefs predict behavior,” said Javier Granados Samayoa, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Texas Christian University. Granados Samayoa noted that reviewing large collections of past studies, known as meta-analyses, reveals an inconsistent pattern. “If you look at meta-analyses on this topic, the answer is that there is evidence for a relation, but it tends to be somewhat modest and the strength can vary such that sometimes the relation is large and sometimes it is not.”
To understand why some people act on their beliefs and others do not, Granados Samayoa and co-author Dolores Albarracín designed a framework based on belief strength. Belief strength refers to the meta-cognitive judgments people make about their own thoughts. In other words, it is how people evaluate and understand what they believe.
“So what might account for this variability? We proposed that conspiracy beliefs have different qualities that influence whether the conspiracy belief-behavior relation is weaker or stronger,” Granados Samayoa explained. “For this research, we focused on the following qualities: the certainty with which people hold the belief, the importance of the belief, and how actionable (i.e., useful and relevant for making decisions).”
The authors proposed a step-by-step pathway. They suspected that conspiracy beliefs shape attitudes, which are a person’s positive or negative evaluations of a specific action.
“We also know that beliefs often have an impact on behavior by influencing intermediary variables so we used people’s attitudes toward the behavior in question as a mediator variable,” Granados Samayoa added. In turn, the researchers predicted that these intermediary attitudes would forecast actual behavior.
To test this model, the researchers carried out three separate studies. The first study included 1,959 participants from an online survey platform. The authors measured participants’ belief in the great replacement conspiracy theory, which falsely claims a secretive group is trying to make White Americans a minority group.
Participants answered questions about how certain they were in this belief and how relevant it was for their decisions. The researchers also measured their attitudes toward actions like voting for politicians who support strict immigration policies. To ensure accuracy, the scientists controlled for demographic variables like age, race, and sex.
The first study indicated that believing in this conspiracy theory predicted more positive attitudes toward anti-immigration actions. This association was strongest among people who felt highly certain about their belief. The link was amplified even further when participants felt their belief was highly actionable, meaning they saw it as a useful guide for their behavior.
“I was surprised that actionability mainly functioned to amplify the influence of certainty and importance in shaping the conspiracy belief-behavior relation,” Granados Samayoa told PsyPost, noting that actionability intensified the other qualities rather than driving the relationship on its own.
The second study utilized a nationally representative sample of 2,572 adults in the United States. The scientists measured beliefs in conspiracy theories claiming that COVID-19 vaccines contain microchips or alter DNA. Participants rated how important the issue of vaccination was to them and how actionable they found their beliefs.
The authors also assessed attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccine and asked participants if they had actually received at least one dose of the vaccine. This study accounted for factors like age, gender, race, education, political ideology, and income.
The second study provided evidence for the researchers’ full pathway. Belief in vaccine conspiracies predicted negative attitudes toward vaccination, which in turn predicted a lower likelihood of actually getting the vaccine. The negative association between the conspiracy belief and vaccine attitudes was strongest when the issue was rated as highly important. Just like in the first study, high perceived actionability amplified this effect.
The third study involved a sample of 1,551 adults in the United States and focused on the political domain. In the first phase of the study, participants reported their belief in a deep state conspiracy theory claiming that government officials were illegally working to undermine Donald Trump. The researchers measured the certainty and importance of this belief, as well as its perceived actionability.
They also measured participants’ attitudes toward political behaviors like donating money to a campaign or sharing information online. Three months later, the researchers followed up with the same participants. They asked how often the participants had actually engaged in those specific political behaviors during the intervening months.
The third study matched the patterns seen in the previous two. Belief in the deep state conspiracy theory robustly predicted positive attitudes toward supportive political actions. This link was strongest for people who reported high certainty and importance regarding their belief, combined with high perceived actionability. Additionally, those positive attitudes successfully predicted the actual frequency of political behaviors over the three-month follow-up period.
These patterns highlight a core finding across different domains. “Conspiracy beliefs are not created equal,” Granados Samayoa said. “You may have two people who seem to endorse a conspiracy theory to the same degree, but our work suggests that additional qualities of that belief like certainty and importance will shape how strongly that conspiracy belief predicts behavior, with actionability further amplifying this relation. Given that concerns about the negative behavioral consequences of conspiracy beliefs are so prominent, I think this additional information is worth keeping in mind when making decisions.”
These studies rely on statistical models to trace the pathway from beliefs to attitudes to behavior. This approach tracks variables in a way that limits the ability to definitively establish cause and effect. “Given our focus on measuring conspiracy beliefs, attitudes, and behavior as they exist in the real-world, our data are correlational,” Granados Samayoa explained.
It is possible that engaging in a behavior actually changes a person’s attitudes or beliefs, rather than the sequence flowing strictly from belief to action. The findings indicate that behavior is highly dependent on how a person subjectively weighs their own thoughts. If a belief is not viewed as important or useful for daily life, it tends to remain just a thought rather than a catalyst for action.
Future research could explore whether these properties of belief strength apply to non-conspiracy beliefs in the same way. Researchers might also test interventions designed to change a belief’s perceived actionability. By encouraging people to see a conspiratorial belief as less relevant to their personal choices, it might be possible to reduce harmful behaviors even if the underlying belief remains unchanged.
Going forward, Granados Samayoa hopes to expand on this framework. “I would like to provide a more comprehensive account of the different qualities of conspiracy beliefs that can shape how strongly they predict behavior,” he said.
The study, “Belief strength and the attitudinal and behavioural correlates of conspiracy beliefs,” was authored by Javier A. Granados Samayoa and Dolores Albarracín.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/the-psychological-factors-associated-with-acting-on-a-conspiracy-theory/
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #ConspiracyBeliefs #BeliefStrength #Actionability #VaccineConspiracy #DeepState #PoliticalBehavior #AttitudesAndBehavior #Certainty #DecisionMaking #BehavioralPsychology
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People share the ’10 second decisions’ that meaningfully improved their lives forever
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People share the ’10 second decisions’ that meaningfully improved their lives forever
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I've been working on updating a decision making process in a #coop from #voting to #consensus inspired by #ietf #decisionMaking process when a colleague made me realize that consensus process is not compatible with many #neurodivergent cognitive styles. It disproportionately favors #Neurotypicals and extraverted ppl while putting more introverted and less verbal type people at a disadvantage. Also it's yet another "social capital" dominated decision making process. Less social capital - less likely you'll actually speak up against the crowd.
The "no one left behind" goal is not fulfilled by the "no loud opposition" decision process. What process does that? We're staying with the simplistic voting for now but adding a prolonged debate. Any ideas? How other #cooperatives do that? Especially #anarchist ones?
#autism #adhd #audhd #dyslexia #socialAnxiety #ptsd #spectrum #anarchism #anarchistOrder #socialism #cooperative
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I've been working on updating a decision making process in a #coop from #voting to #consensus inspired by #ietf #decisionMaking process when a colleague made me realize that consensus process is not compatible with many #neurodivergent cognitive styles. It disproportionately favors #Neurotypicals and extraverted ppl while putting more introverted and less verbal type people at a disadvantage. Also it's yet another "social capital" dominated decision making process. Less social capital - less likely you'll actually speak up against the crowd.
The "no one left behind" goal is not fulfilled by the "no loud opposition" decision process. What process does that? We're staying with the simplistic voting for now but adding a prolonged debate. Any ideas? How other #cooperatives do that? Especially #anarchist ones?
#autism #adhd #audhd #dyslexia #socialAnxiety #ptsd #spectrum #anarchism #anarchistOrder #socialism #cooperative
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A set of three experiments using numerical estimation problems showed that groups that decomposed the problem into smaller parts (the Fermi method) performed better than groups that simply pooled the estimates of individual members, and better than individuals who applied the Fermi method by themselves. This shows that there are better and worse ways of collective problem solving.
Summary: https://www.sciencealert.com/groups-really-do-make-better-decisions-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76365-y
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A set of three experiments using numerical estimation problems showed that groups that decomposed the problem into smaller parts (the Fermi method) performed better than groups that simply pooled the estimates of individual members, and better than individuals who applied the Fermi method by themselves. This shows that there are better and worse ways of collective problem solving.
Summary: https://www.sciencealert.com/groups-really-do-make-better-decisions-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think
Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76365-y
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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 08:38AM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY MIND-BRAIN FEEDTITLE: Sitting up straight may improve your mood and decision-making
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260804034624.htm
A simple change in posture may subtly affect how people feel and make decisions. Participants who sat upright reported greater feelings of pride and took more successful risks in a virtual balloon game than those who hunched over. Most did not realize researchers had influenced their posture, helping rule out the possibility that they were merely responding to expectations. The results suggest workplace ergonomics could influence more than physical comfort.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260804034624.htm
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #SittingUpStraight #PostureAndMood #BodyLanguage #Ergonomics #DecisionMaking #PositiveMindset #WorkplaceWellness #RiskTaking #MoodBoost #NonconsciousInfluence
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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 08:38AM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY MIND-BRAIN FEEDTITLE: Sitting up straight may improve your mood and decision-making
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260804034624.htm
A simple change in posture may subtly affect how people feel and make decisions. Participants who sat upright reported greater feelings of pride and took more successful risks in a virtual balloon game than those who hunched over. Most did not realize researchers had influenced their posture, helping rule out the possibility that they were merely responding to expectations. The results suggest workplace ergonomics could influence more than physical comfort.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260804034624.htm
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #SittingUpStraight #PostureAndMood #BodyLanguage #Ergonomics #DecisionMaking #PositiveMindset #WorkplaceWellness #RiskTaking #MoodBoost #NonconsciousInfluence
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The Lost Chapter of Santiago’s Second Personal Legend
What’s a quote that perfectly describes your outlook on life? The Second Personal Legend of SantiagoAn Official Ministry Response to Today's Jetpack Daily Prompt The first Personal Legend is finding the treasure. The second is understanding why you wanted it in the first place. The Ministry of Satirical Affairs recently obtained an unverified transcript from a parallel universe. Any resemblance to existing literary works is purely coincidental and legally advisable.Most readers know […]https://satiregpt.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/the-lost-chapter-of-santiagos-second-personal-legend/
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The Lost Chapter of Santiago’s Second Personal Legend
What’s a quote that perfectly describes your outlook on life? The Second Personal Legend of SantiagoAn Official Ministry Response to Today's Jetpack Daily Prompt The first Personal Legend is finding the treasure. The second is understanding why you wanted it in the first place. The Ministry of Satirical Affairs recently obtained an unverified transcript from a parallel universe. Any resemblance to existing literary works is purely coincidental and legally advisable.Most readers know […]https://satiregpt.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/the-lost-chapter-of-santiagos-second-personal-legend/
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Your open tabs are unfinished decisions, not bookmarks
https://gettably.tech/articles/open-tabs-are-unfinished-decisions/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172034
#HackerNews #openTabs #unfinishedDecisions #productivity #webBrowsing #decisionMaking
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Your open tabs are unfinished decisions, not bookmarks
https://gettably.tech/articles/open-tabs-are-unfinished-decisions/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172034
#HackerNews #openTabs #unfinishedDecisions #productivity #webBrowsing #decisionMaking
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🔍 “Clear thinking creates confident investing.”
#Markets #Investing #StoneCapitalGrowth #Clarity #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia
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🔍 “Clear thinking creates confident investing.”
#Markets #Investing #StoneCapitalGrowth #Clarity #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia
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RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117030783136853538
Being given a 100% AI generated score for your own mental work hurts. It also hurts because the result is presented as absolute and undeniable, with no path for appeal or inspection. A decision presented as a black-box score with no insights revealed how the score has been computed or the specific reasons/patterns which triggered "detection" to begin with[1]... A score produced by a third party which inserted itself as middleman in the communication flow between writers and readers and claims authority and arbiter status over deciding what is slop and what is not. Another layer of statistical machine learning to detect patterns/anomalies of statistical means of language generation...
In this specific case, I don't really care too much what these tools say. I know what I wrote and rewrote, over hours, and to the best of my ability (as non-native English speaker).
The myth of computational objectivity prevails. For decades it was about blind belief in algorithms, now shifted to AI models. The wider public and most decision makers neither seem to understand the difference, nor do they care about the inherent dangers. Pragmatism at all costs. The genie is out and can't be put back. The problems (if acknowledged at all) are always treated as temporary minor hurdles rather than fundamental systemic issues.
It's upsetting how Little Britain's "Computer Says No"[2] attitude and blind outsourcing of black-box classification and decision-making to machines has already been so extremely normalized and is impacting more and more of our lives, for many people/minorities in far more serious and outright deadly ways... 😭
[1] Having worked with many forms of machine learning myself, I know first hand that lack of detailed observability has been plaguing ML disciplines for decades. I think these are also some of the most worrisome aspects of more widely deploying LLM affine tech. Whilst some minor progress has been made, these efforts are severely challenged and thwarted by the exponentially growing model sizes, architectural complexity and distributed nature of agents.
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RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117030783136853538
Being given a 100% AI generated score for your own mental work hurts. It also hurts because the result is presented as absolute and undeniable, with no path for appeal or inspection. A decision presented as a black-box score with no insights revealed how the score has been computed or the specific reasons/patterns which triggered "detection" to begin with[1]... A score produced by a third party which inserted itself as middleman in the communication flow between writers and readers and claims authority and arbiter status over deciding what is slop and what is not. Another layer of statistical machine learning to detect patterns/anomalies of statistical means of language generation...
In this specific case, I don't really care too much what these tools say. I know what I wrote and rewrote, over hours, and to the best of my ability (as non-native English speaker).
The myth of computational objectivity prevails. For decades it was about blind belief in algorithms, now shifted to AI models. The wider public and most decision makers neither seem to understand the difference, nor do they care about the inherent dangers. Pragmatism at all costs. The genie is out and can't be put back. The problems (if acknowledged at all) are always treated as temporary minor hurdles rather than fundamental systemic issues.
It's upsetting how Little Britain's "Computer Says No"[2] attitude and blind outsourcing of black-box classification and decision-making to machines has already been so extremely normalized and is impacting more and more of our lives, for many people/minorities in far more serious and outright deadly ways... 😭
[1] Having worked with many forms of machine learning myself, I know first hand that lack of detailed observability has been plaguing ML disciplines for decades. I think these are also some of the most worrisome aspects of more widely deploying LLM affine tech. Whilst some minor progress has been made, these efforts are severely challenged and thwarted by the exponentially growing model sizes, architectural complexity and distributed nature of agents.
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Bad Judgment Looks Like Chemistry
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — August 3, 2026
There is a moment late in many nights out when someone turns to a friend and says the same sentence.
“Oh my God, we have chemistry.”
That sentence usually arrives after several drinks, loud music, and an hour or two of conversation that may or may not make sense in the morning.
It feels exciting. It feels spontaneous. It feels like something important is happening.
But very often, what people are calling chemistry is something much simpler.
Bad judgment.
Alcohol and the Illusion of Connection
Alcohol changes how the brain processes social signals. It reduces anxiety, lowers inhibition, and increases the brain’s reward response to attention and novelty.
That combination creates a powerful illusion.
People seem funnier than they are. Stories seem more interesting than they are. Flirting feels more intense than it really is.
In other words, alcohol makes ordinary interaction feel extraordinary.
Two strangers in a bar may genuinely believe they have discovered something special about each other. But the reality is that both people are experiencing the same chemical effect at the same time.
The chemistry they feel may have more to do with alcohol than compatibility.
Performance Mode
Bars are also places where people perform.
They are not neutral environments. Everyone there is presenting a carefully edited version of themselves.
People dress differently. They exaggerate stories. They laugh louder and act more confident. Small flaws disappear in dim lighting and loud music.
Alcohol amplifies that performance.
Someone who might normally appear quiet or awkward can suddenly seem charming. Someone who might normally appear arrogant may instead seem bold and exciting.
The person across the table may be real—but the version of them you are meeting is often heavily filtered by the environment.
Morning Light
One of the reasons drunken hookups often feel strange the next day is that the performance ends.
Morning light is less forgiving than bar lighting.
The loud music is gone. The alcohol is wearing off. The exaggerated personalities people adopted during the night fade away.
What remains are two people who may not have nearly as much in common as they thought.
Sometimes the difference is small. Sometimes it is enormous.
Many people have experienced the quiet morning realization that the person who seemed fascinating at midnight feels like a complete stranger at breakfast.
Compatibility vs. Excitement
Real compatibility takes time to reveal itself.
It grows out of conversation, shared values, and the slower process of learning how another person thinks and behaves over time.
Alcohol speeds everything up artificially.
Excitement replaces understanding. Attention replaces trust. Attraction replaces compatibility.
The result is a connection built on temporary conditions rather than lasting ones.
That doesn’t make the attraction imaginary.
It just means it may not survive daylight.
The Question Worth Asking
Before declaring that someone you met after several drinks is the most interesting person in the room, it may be worth asking one simple question.
Would this conversation still feel the same if neither of us had been drinking?
Sometimes the answer is yes.
But very often, the answer is no.
And if the connection only works in a room full of alcohol, noise, and dim lighting, it may not be chemistry at all.
It may just be the environment doing its job.
Princess raised her head from the floor and gave one of the puppies a sharp little growl for chewing on something they clearly shouldn’t have been touching.
The puppy dropped it immediately.
Princess sighed, put her head back down, and went back to sleep.
Even the dog understands the difference between curiosity and a bad decision.
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Bad Judgment Looks Like Chemistry
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — August 3, 2026
There is a moment late in many nights out when someone turns to a friend and says the same sentence.
“Oh my God, we have chemistry.”
That sentence usually arrives after several drinks, loud music, and an hour or two of conversation that may or may not make sense in the morning.
It feels exciting. It feels spontaneous. It feels like something important is happening.
But very often, what people are calling chemistry is something much simpler.
Bad judgment.
Alcohol and the Illusion of Connection
Alcohol changes how the brain processes social signals. It reduces anxiety, lowers inhibition, and increases the brain’s reward response to attention and novelty.
That combination creates a powerful illusion.
People seem funnier than they are. Stories seem more interesting than they are. Flirting feels more intense than it really is.
In other words, alcohol makes ordinary interaction feel extraordinary.
Two strangers in a bar may genuinely believe they have discovered something special about each other. But the reality is that both people are experiencing the same chemical effect at the same time.
The chemistry they feel may have more to do with alcohol than compatibility.
Performance Mode
Bars are also places where people perform.
They are not neutral environments. Everyone there is presenting a carefully edited version of themselves.
People dress differently. They exaggerate stories. They laugh louder and act more confident. Small flaws disappear in dim lighting and loud music.
Alcohol amplifies that performance.
Someone who might normally appear quiet or awkward can suddenly seem charming. Someone who might normally appear arrogant may instead seem bold and exciting.
The person across the table may be real—but the version of them you are meeting is often heavily filtered by the environment.
Morning Light
One of the reasons drunken hookups often feel strange the next day is that the performance ends.
Morning light is less forgiving than bar lighting.
The loud music is gone. The alcohol is wearing off. The exaggerated personalities people adopted during the night fade away.
What remains are two people who may not have nearly as much in common as they thought.
Sometimes the difference is small. Sometimes it is enormous.
Many people have experienced the quiet morning realization that the person who seemed fascinating at midnight feels like a complete stranger at breakfast.
Compatibility vs. Excitement
Real compatibility takes time to reveal itself.
It grows out of conversation, shared values, and the slower process of learning how another person thinks and behaves over time.
Alcohol speeds everything up artificially.
Excitement replaces understanding. Attention replaces trust. Attraction replaces compatibility.
The result is a connection built on temporary conditions rather than lasting ones.
That doesn’t make the attraction imaginary.
It just means it may not survive daylight.
The Question Worth Asking
Before declaring that someone you met after several drinks is the most interesting person in the room, it may be worth asking one simple question.
Would this conversation still feel the same if neither of us had been drinking?
Sometimes the answer is yes.
But very often, the answer is no.
And if the connection only works in a room full of alcohol, noise, and dim lighting, it may not be chemistry at all.
It may just be the environment doing its job.
Princess raised her head from the floor and gave one of the puppies a sharp little growl for chewing on something they clearly shouldn’t have been touching.
The puppy dropped it immediately.
Princess sighed, put her head back down, and went back to sleep.
Even the dog understands the difference between curiosity and a bad decision.
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