Oliver Scott Curry @Oliver_S_Curry
Research Director @kindness_org | Research Affiliate @oxford_anthro | Evolution, cooperation, morality & politics. All tweets are hypotheses. oliverscottcurry.com UK Joined January 2014-
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Does anyone know about evolutionary *models* (not verbal reasoning) about the *quantity* of punishment (not the mere existence of punishment) that second-parties should inflict on aggressors to deter optimally?
Does anyone know about evolutionary *models* (not verbal reasoning) about the *quantity* of punishment (not the mere existence of punishment) that second-parties should inflict on aggressors to deter optimally?
The UK Government next week will announce they will *reintroduce full religious discrimination in admissions for new state schools with a religious character* - a move that 80% of people are against! Learn more about the cap and join the fightback 👇humanists.uk/2024/04/09/wha…
For those interested in my meta-analysis of experiments regarding whether reducing #socialmedia time improves #mentalhealth (TL/DR: No), an early proof version is now available at: christopherjferguson.com/Social%20Media…
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A trolley is barrelling down the tracks. By sacrificing your *own* life you can save the lives of five others. Morally, should you? Would you?
'Conjecture and refutation' is how natural selection works, how the brain works, and how science works. Simples.
@AdamMGrant This seems to be more interesting: "our study suggests the evidence for banning mobile phones in schools is weak and inconclusive." theconversation.com/we-looked-at-a…
I'm looking for a set or inventory of offenses / crimes that have been pre-rated for how bad each offense/crime is. There's the Mu et al. items (pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…), which are good, but I need something more crime-y than social norm violation-y. Any suggestions?
"there is no concrete evidence that social media has negative effects on the mental health of many or most young people"
"there is no concrete evidence that social media has negative effects on the mental health of many or most young people"
People judge the morality of soldiers (local cooperation) by the morality of their cause (global cooperation) doi.org/10.1037/xge000…
A reminder that in evolutionary biology, 'adaptation' (ad-apt-ation) means 'fit-to', as in 'a good fit', or 'apt'. So, ‘survival of the fittest’ is means the survival of the organisms that are 'the best fit' to their environments, not necessarily the strongest or healthiest etc
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Great advice from Dennett for engaging philosophically with those you disagree with.
"we found little support for the idea that psychological sex differences will vanish as societies develop... instead, it appears that the dominant feature of psychological sex differences is their robustness in the face of social change" theconversation.com/sex-difference…
In Europe or Asia? Join @UskulAyse and me for two talks on the psychology of culture, May 3, 12:30pm London, 7:30pm China.
In Europe or Asia? Join @UskulAyse and me for two talks on the psychology of culture, May 3, 12:30pm London, 7:30pm China.
Steve Stewart-William.. @SteveStuWill
193K Followers 238 Following Psychology, evolution, science. Author of "The Ape That Understood the Universe" (2018) and "Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life" (2010). Backup: @SteveStuWill2
Rob Henderson @robkhenderson
147K Followers 689 Following Best-Selling Author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class: https://t.co/TGd7JHRsFo
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel
55K Followers 2K Following Psychology Prof @NYUPsych | author of @PowerOfUsBook & newsletter (https://t.co/bG3QVlNURs) | Director of @vanbavellab | On sabbatical
Geoffrey Miller @primalpoly
140K Followers 7K Following Psych professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, Virtue Signaling. Themes: Evolution, sentience, civilization, EA, X risk, crypto. Wife: @sentientist. ⏸️
Will @Evolving_Moloch
17K Followers 988 Following Evolutionary Anthropology. RA @HSB_Lab. Blogs on violence, magic, rituals, deception. https://t.co/vQh5ccJfdR
Nicole Barbaro @NicoleBarbaro
18K Followers 1K Following 🧠 PhD | Director of Communications at @HdxAcademy working to improve #HigherEd | talks about: books, science, education, PhD careers | typos & opinions mine
Alexander @datepsych
38K Followers 2K Following MSc Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience. Research interests in attractiveness & dating. YT - alex.datepsych. https://t.co/j8k9vdR6IF
Rob @robsica
4K Followers 5K Following "Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it." -Nietzsche
Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain
39K Followers 2K Following Neurogeneticist interested in genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018), FREE AGENTS (2023). https://t.co/PdgAxi6myV
Dr. Scott Barry Kaufm.. @sbkaufman
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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale
95K Followers 586 Following Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion (Artwork by MK Wynn: https://t.co/HLDAJgvYmE)
David Schmitt @PsychoSchmitt
12K Followers 945 Following Department Head, Psychological Sciences, Kansas State University. Tweets my own & are science communications not endorsements of specific views/findings.
The Dissenter @TheDissenterYT
7K Followers 1K Following In-depth interviews with leading academics on #psychology, #philosophy, #anthropology, #neuroscience, #economics, #biology, and more.
Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto
6K Followers 2K Following Cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics. Assistant professor sociology @UniTrento - more info in the pinned tweet.
Paul Smaldino @psmaldino
8K Followers 1K Following Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Professor at @UCMCogSci and @sfiscience. Mostly posting on Bluesky: @psmaldino.bsky.social
Jaimie Arona Krems @JaimieKrems
4K Followers 2K Following Asst Prof @UCLA studying friendship, women, + the social mind. @BrynMawrCollege • @Penn • @UniofOxford • @ASU. Cofounder @ocean_okstate. Philadelphian.
manvir singh @mnvrsngh
14K Followers 411 Following anthropology prof @ucdavis. phd @harvard. writing a book on shamanism for @aaknopf @penguinbooks. 🧞♂️
Ed Hagen @ed_hagen
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Mudblood Wolf 🗿 �.. @thewhitewolf51
248 Followers 513 Following I eat bigots and gravy for breakfast. Former Christian, DMD 🦷, girl dad, fantasy/sci-fi fan.
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25 Followers 359 Following ich will gern einfach mal nur zuhören, wenn das ok ist. foto: (CC)heinz bunse
Chidera Vitalis Ononi.. @chideravita150
397 Followers 3K Following political scientist with an interest in political neuroscience and global politics. Climate change activist, and founder of Green-Eco school club Nigeria.
David Criado @vorpalina
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Gilda @ggppiirrll
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Dax Oliver @DaxOliverWriter
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The wrong guy @r_c_h
233 Followers 2K Following Reformed progressive. Possibly not a replicant. Believer in Science when it supports my beliefs. Performative idiot.
Andrei Potlogea @APotlogea
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Rosalind Rei @rosalind_rei
519 Followers 5K Following Market reporter covering rare earths, phosphate, synthetic graphite, industrial policy @benchmarkmin | Interested in ecology, commodities, value
Ashley @ashley19878
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Chris Lakin @ChrisChipMonk
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Nyx @NyxLNg
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Morgan Ballesteros @gomorgango99
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Árbol de Ideas @ArbolIdeas
1K Followers 1K Following Soy un meme constante cuyo objetivo es interrumpir o perturbar el orden divino del mundo.
λ☆woke☆🔥 (he/.. @DenkenAnalysis
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Robert Stump @BobStump
2K Followers 5K Following "A dashing tuxedoed figure"—Arizona Republic. Philosophy @UniofOxford. Chair, Phoenix Opera. Erstwhile Arizona statewide-elected and @weeklystandard alum.
Maide Barış @dikdertgen
411 Followers 473 Following Muslim. Ph.D. Bioethics. Tweets are in Eng/Tr and up to my mood. Faculty Member @ Marmara University, School of Med.
Daniel Cappell @DanielCappell
52 Followers 2K Following compleat autocerebroscopist and lurker. Rugger '20, NIU '24. former SPED teacher @MustangGang410. blocked by: the noumenon
cavy @_cavy_
373 Followers 811 Following Trying my best. Twitter Blue subs fund Elon Twitter. Civil Asset Forfeiture is legalized theft. Gerrymandering is anti-democracy.
Vittoria Soru @SoruVittoria
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Sun 乌龟 💖 @suntzoogway
2K Followers 1K Following Shepherd the finite through the local minima of imperfect information/ Aligning all beings w/ the lovepill I'm developing/ Putting cult back into culture
the asdfg @the_asdfg
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Javier Pallero @javierpallero
8K Followers 811 Following Digital rights. Policy & Advocacy. Team builder. Tech & culture. / Former @accessnow, @celeup. Personal views. Also on Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon.
Graham Rodwell @GrahamRodwell2
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Tiwtch @Tiwtch4
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Joshua Elkington @elkingtonxy
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NBDYUKNOW @nbdyuknow1
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Kyle Fiore Law @law_fiore
176 Followers 551 Following Social Psychology PhD Candidate trying to bridge the gaps between ethical philosophy and psychological science.
8Eevert ⌗ND 🇫�.. @8Eevert
927 Followers 3K Following Homeless neurodivergent citizen researcher dad fighting #LongCovid & #MECFS. Please consider donating.
marcocosolo petrucco @moltiplicazeri
179 Followers 5K Following
Lili @Liliana54315286
3 Followers 90 Following Confianza en el progreso. Nadie debería estar por encima de la ley. Somos emocionales. La razón práctica. Left is not woke. Cultura y evolución.
Lalit Panda @somesortofpanda
803 Followers 810 Following Researcher at @Vidhi_India | Interested in law, policy, constitutions, economics, philosophy, literature, writing +++
Talis Qualis @talis_qualis_
33 Followers 120 Following
Wasim Yahya @waseeeemy
61 Followers 533 Following Research Associate at @azimpremjiuniv working on causation and responsibility. Alumnus @iiserpune
a. @akmalhafizi
306 Followers 5K Following directionless, drowning in debt, academic breakdown, psychological damage, despised by god, & also forgot where i was going with this
doulgas SOUZA @50000ETH
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Fron Seneca 🗽🇺�.. @fronseneca
2K Followers 1K Following 1,000 Years Of American Empire. Technology will save us all. Founder @SpectralCode. Prev @google, @utaustin
Brandon Sayler @brandonsayler
289 Followers 754 Following sailing. cruising. sailing and cruising. you get the point. @Penn
vicos^ghost @GhostVicos
8 Followers 310 Following Student in philosophy, stumbling my way to less-wrongness...
Steve Stewart-William.. @SteveStuWill
193K Followers 238 Following Psychology, evolution, science. Author of "The Ape That Understood the Universe" (2018) and "Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life" (2010). Backup: @SteveStuWill2
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel
55K Followers 2K Following Psychology Prof @NYUPsych | author of @PowerOfUsBook & newsletter (https://t.co/bG3QVlNURs) | Director of @vanbavellab | On sabbatical
Will @Evolving_Moloch
17K Followers 988 Following Evolutionary Anthropology. RA @HSB_Lab. Blogs on violence, magic, rituals, deception. https://t.co/vQh5ccJfdR
Rob @robsica
4K Followers 5K Following "Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it." -Nietzsche
Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain
39K Followers 2K Following Neurogeneticist interested in genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018), FREE AGENTS (2023). https://t.co/PdgAxi6myV
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale
95K Followers 586 Following Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion (Artwork by MK Wynn: https://t.co/HLDAJgvYmE)
Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani
11K Followers 868 Following Professor of Evolution & Behaviour. @ucl @aucklanduni Likes cycling. Book: THE SOCIAL INSTINCT https://t.co/PZZfzglEjO…
Jaimie Arona Krems @JaimieKrems
4K Followers 2K Following Asst Prof @UCLA studying friendship, women, + the social mind. @BrynMawrCollege • @Penn • @UniofOxford • @ASU. Cofounder @ocean_okstate. Philadelphian.
manvir singh @mnvrsngh
14K Followers 411 Following anthropology prof @ucdavis. phd @harvard. writing a book on shamanism for @aaknopf @penguinbooks. 🧞♂️
Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp
27K Followers 9K Following Sr. ResFellow @UniofOx; Co-Dir. @bioxphi Lab: philosophy, psychology, bioethics; sci/tech/med; sex/gender/equality; body autonomy; child rights. @UKYoungAcademy
Jerry Coyne @Evolutionistrue
37K Followers 0 Following Superannuated evolutionary biologist, writer, humanist, atheist, secularist and ailurophile.
Joshua M. Tybur @joshtybur
2K Followers 667 Following Professor of Psychology and Infectious Disease at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Dorsa Amir @DorsaAmir
31K Followers 988 Following Postdoc @BerkeleyPsych studying kids & culture. Incoming professor @DukePsychNeuro. Iranian-American. Mom. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
Chris Ferguson @CJFerguson1111
8K Followers 399 Following PhD Psychologist, Author of Suicide Kings; Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong & How Madness Shaped History. Member of an awesome family.
Michael Bang Petersen @M_B_Petersen
34K Followers 1K Following Professor auditing the state and challenges of democracy in the 21st century in @Magtudredningen with a focus on online hostility, distrust & crisis politics.
Randy Nesse @RandyNesse
7K Followers 678 Following A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine, now encouraging psychiatry to find its missing foundation in evolutionary biology. https://t.co/bJUooCCO2w
David Buss @ProfDavidBuss
24K Followers 385 Following Author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
Daniel Sznycer @dsznycer
2K Followers 625 Following value computation. emotion. communication. morality. institutions. evolutionary psychology.
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks
31K Followers 37 Following Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. I post regularly as @rodneyabrooks at https://t.co/sF7HmACXdd cofounder at https://t.co/LUTTbi3pds
Michael Bacon @_MichaelBacon
177 Followers 431 Following Senior lecturer in political theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger
2K Followers 758 Following Assistant Professor | Social Psychology | Tilburg University 🧠❤️Altruism, Morality, & Rationality 🌚🌝First impressions & Social biases 🔬📊Meta-science
Royal Museums Greenwi.. @RMGreenwich
41K Followers 2K Following Sharing the world's most epic stories of exploration: Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the National Maritime Museum and the Queen's House.
Taylor Kessinger 🐙 @nashintasapaino
659 Followers 626 Following Population genetics, evolution of cooperation, game theory. Nerd, weightlifter, postdoc @Penn. Father to a little emperor. Backup: @[email protected]
Steven Quartz PhD @StevenQuartz
1K Followers 475 Following Professor @Caltech. Neuroscience & neurophilosophy of reward, ethics, welfare. Computational neuroscience. Human origins. Cyclist pursuing masters hour record.
Future Crunch @future_crunch
15K Followers 325 Following We report stories of progress. Join 50,000 people who receive our email newsletter and make your inbox a more hopeful place.
Giuliana Spadaro @g_spadaro90
786 Followers 671 Following Assistant Professor @VUamsterdam. Co-director of the Cooperation Databank. Interested in the psychology of trust and human cooperation ...Penguins enthusiast!
Paul Poast @ProfPaulPoast
95K Followers 472 Following Tweeting to teach. International Relations and Foreign Policy. @UChicago Prof. @ChicagoCouncil Fellow. @WPReview Columnist.
Andrew Neil @afneil
1.2M Followers 451 Following Chairman Spectator Magazine UK, US, Australia. Presenter The Andrew Neil Show, Channel 4. Ex-Editor Sunday Times, BBC political presenter, Chairman Sky TV
Mohsen Joshanloo @MohsenJoshanloo
347 Followers 201 Following Personality and cross-cultural psychologist. Well-being, culture, measurement.
Data Colada @DataColada
13K Followers 0 Following This account does not retweet. Actually it is not even monitored.
Chef Reactions @ChefReactions
329K Followers 583 Following Extra Salty | Side of Sarcasm *BS allergy* that annoying, monotone chef from TikTok
Zachary Witkower @ZakWitkower
277 Followers 641 Following Nonverbal behavior researcher, FACS certified face enthusiast, and an unabashed Billy Joel fan.
Jessica Tracy @ProfJessTracy
1K Followers 256 Following social-personality psychologist & emotion scientist @UBC, author of PRIDE: THE SECRET OF SUCCESS, unrepentant deadhead
Hongbo Yu @PsyHongbo
1K Followers 2K Following Asst Prof @UCSBpsych interested in morality, emotion and brain || was @Yale @OxExpPsy @UniofOxford & @PKU1898
The Full Brexit @tfbrexit
4K Followers 2K Following We are a group committed to seizing the historic opportunity Brexit offers for restoring popular sovereignty, repairing democracy, and renewing our economy.
Thomas Talhelm @ThomasTalhelm
3K Followers 218 Following Associate Professor of Behavioral Science at University of Chicago Booth School of Business Papers available at: https://t.co/axIOUVcUAN
SPIER & MACKAY @SPIERMACKAY
965 Followers 460 Following Maker and purveyor of fine handmade dress shirts and suits.
Ayşe Üskül @UskulAyse
1K Followers 523 Following social/cultural psychologist at @unisussex @Sussex_Psych, currently working on ERC-funded HONORLOGIC with 12 partners
Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh
5K Followers 956 Following Studies empathy, altruism, and aggression @Georgetown. Author of The Fear Factor (https://t.co/iSO3TcUhAV). Co-Founder of @PsychopathyIs
RSPB @Natures_Voice
433K Followers 3K Following Protecting habitats, saving species, and helping to end the nature and climate emergency. Nature is in crisis. Together we can save it. 💙
Great Jazz Albums @GreatJazzAlbums
30K Followers 1K Following I listen to one great jazz album a day, and share it with you here. A great place to start learning about jazz. Link below for a list of all previous albums.
Luke McEllin @luke_mcellin
403 Followers 892 Following PostDoc investigating the who, what, where, when, why and how of action and decision (interpersonal) coordination. @SOMBYlab
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson
46K Followers 7K Following Bagehot columnist and political editor at The Economist.
Compound Interest | C.. @compoundchem
112K Followers 655 Following Graphics exploring everyday #chemistry • @absw 2018 #science blog award 🏆 • #scicomm • Graphics & tweets by @ndbrning
Léo Fitouchi @LFitouchi
780 Followers 392 Following Postdoctoral research fellow at @IASToulouse. PhD @ENS_ULM. Evolutionary social science of morality, religion, punishment, institutions.
Cotswold Water Park @CotswoldWaterPk
3K Followers 635 Following Over 180 lakes set in glorious Gloucestershire and Wiltshire countryside. Great place for wildlife, watersports, walking, cycling, birdwatching and much more.
Hook Norton Brewery @HookyBrewery
15K Followers 9K Following Dedication in every glass. We are a proudly independent 6th generation family brewery crafting the finest ales, lagers and stouts in Oxfordshire since 1849.
George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace
865K Followers 4K Following The Official George Wallace Twitter. Trying to serve it up with hot sauce for you. God bless.
Ashley Ward @ashleyjwward
1K Followers 654 Following Animal behaviour research at the University of Sydney. More at https://t.co/FSDMWQ3gvt
Mehmet Necip Tunç �.. @tunc_necip
1K Followers 1K Following Interested in social psychology and philosophy of science. PhD Candidate @TilburgU @[email protected] @mntunc.bsky.social
Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg
240K Followers 146 Following Author of 'Best Things First', 'False Alarm', and 'Skeptical Environmentalist', President Copenhagen Consensus: smart solutions through economic prioritization
Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306
295K Followers 2 Following peace abroad, regime change at home / maths circles / systems politics
Godyssey @GodysseyPodcast
13K Followers 5K Following Mythology, History, Storytelling: the Godyssey podcast is a deep dive into our shared humanity through gods. 3 seasons currently out!
Brent Underwood @underwoodbrent
17K Followers 38 Following Owner of Cerro Gordo 'ghost town' Email: [email protected]
Aaron N Sell @aaron_sell
181 Followers 168 Following Associate professor of psychology and criminology, Heidelberg University. Cognitive-evolutionary psychologist.
Arvid Ågren @arvidagren
4K Followers 2K Following Evolutionary biologist @CCLRI / @CWRU + @EvoBioUppsala. The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution in paperback 2023 https://t.co/Upd0NgO4PA
OurKarlPopper @ourkarlpopper
171 Followers 197 Following Associated with the "How Karl Popper Had Made a Difference in Our Lives" blog. For more details, visit the blog.
Kristin Andrews @KristinAndrewz
3K Followers 2K Following York Research Chair in Animal Minds. 🐀 🦧🐬 🐶 Philosophy Prof. Author...mom of a teen. pup. sci-fi fan. yoga. walker. mudlark. basketweaver.
The Oxford Karl Poppe.. @OxfordPopper
2K Followers 24 Following Oxford-based student society centred around philosophy, science and politics.
Humanists UK @Humanists_UK
117K Followers 3K Following We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
The Happiness Foundat.. @solvehappiness
157 Followers 129 Following A multidisciplinary research foundation focused on the future of happiness, wellbeing and fulfilment.
Moral Intuitions Lab @mint_lab
1K Followers 218 Following The Moral Intuitions (MINT) Lab is a psychology research lab led by @_onurcanyilmaz at @khasedutr (Istanbul). The causes and consequences of human morality.
David Pinsof @DavidPinsof
3K Followers 460 Following Social scientist at UCLA Social Minds Lab, co-creator of @cah, writes about bullshit at https://t.co/FODwrzoxHvStudy on couples; When people with agreeable spouses forgave them, the spouses were less likely to commit further transgressions against their partners. But when people with disagreeable spouses forgave them, the spouse became more likely to commit further transgressions.
@kareem_carr Not really. Have you looked at the data? Most of these are very highly correlated.
Hilarious that Hume is the picture for this and not Heidegger. I say this as a Heideggerian.
New Post: Should We Continue to Read and Honor Immoral Historical Philosophers? buff.ly/4a3hkuR
"Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good!" -- Terry Pratchett
Attributions toward artificial agents in a modified Moral Turing Test. Results: "participants rated AI’s moral reasoning as superior in quality to humans’ along almost all dimensions, including virtuousness, intelligence, and trustworthiness..." nature.com/articles/s4159…
Probably.
Jerry Seinfeld says he wouldn’t be able to do many jokes from ‘SEINFELD’ in today’s world. “[One would be] Kramer decides to start a business of having homeless people pull rickshaws because, as he says, ‘They’re outside anyway.’ Do you think I could get that episode on the air…
@JosephPolitano Not a cop, just a local official of some sort. I go there every week and this was the first time this happened. He didn't kick me out but said to get a permit next time (I will not!)
Finally finished Detectorists. I’ve enjoyed lots of comedy series over the years but none have made my heart quite so full as this. Every second of it has been a huge, warm hug. This scene with Terry and Shiela absolutely killed me. A moment of simple joy and contentment. 😭
As a tribute to @RealBobMortimer I have made this film about Henry VIII to promote my history podcast. You won’t get this from @holland_tom on #therestishistory #henryVIII shows.acast.com/willy-willy-ha…
Another thing that I love about Robin of Sherwood is how elegantly it stepped into the gap recently left by a certain other classic series about a band of outlaws. Blake’s 7 was obviously Robin Hood in space, but the parallels are never clearer than here. So... another 🧵 1/11
Interesting how this question is almost always directed at Hume and Kant rather than, e.g., Rousseau, Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger (!!), Sartre, and Foucault.
New Post: Should We Continue to Read and Honor Immoral Historical Philosophers? buff.ly/4a3hkuR
Haven’t gotten hate mail in a while, but I did about this piece without before I even tweeted it… slay theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
Trying to thin out my book collection and made the mistake of opening up ‘Early Man’ by F Clark Howell (1976) and remembering how well communicated so much of it is - obviously much outdated now but these diagrams on how tools were used? Love them 😍 Back on the shelf it is!
"The question of teen mental health is complicated and resistant to any single explanation" Good critique here of Jonathan Haidt's 'Anxious Generation' argument theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
The shape of the universe could be totally bonkers, like a 3-torus. "Imagine distorting a cube by bending a pair of opposite sides around until they face each other and then gluing them together. Then imagine the same for the other two pairs." physics.aps.org/articles/v17/74
@nailedvision @2Philosophical_ I'd ask you back the same question. In your moral code, what happens in this situation? Do you get to go to heaven? What moral system says that you ought to sacrifice your life to save a child. (none that I know of). Certainly it is admirable, and worthy of praise, but none would…
@firezdog @2Philosophical_ I don't think it's so hard to believe that most other people would readily adopt a moral system that at its core is based on the fact that rational agents always seek to act in their own self interest - and that when you analyze what happens when large groups of such people…
@2Philosophical_ Morality is a study in the field of game theory based on what is the best behavior to take on when playing repeated games. (or at least- it ought to be thought of this way) Various Religions and cultures discovered some of the basic tenets through trial and error. Those…
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