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Cognitive Karstica

• [marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones — 25 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Caligula as an anti-ideology — 19 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] We enjoy ‘waiting’ — 18 Feb 2025
• [article] Ideologies stack — 15 Jun 2024
  Fringe theories always seem to cluster together. It seems weird, but mainstream theories also do, we just don’t often examine them. Examining why different theory stacks arise reveals much about our biases, ideologies, and the influence of community-based knowledge.
• [article] The Trouble With Objectivity — 21 Dec 2023
  The obsession over objectivity is a confusion of two things. There’s rationality, the desire to be less biased. Then there’s truth which is going to be necessarily biased toward whatever aspect of the world we’re trying to understand. In both cases objectivity is irrelevant.
• [article] Eerie coincidences aren't that eerie — 12 Nov 2023
  Your phone probably isn’t eavesdropping for ads. Your brain’s job is to highlight unexpected hits while ignoring the misses. Eerie coincidences are probably just you not noticing all the times something weird could have happened but didn’t.
• [article] Panpsychism isn't that fun — 22 Sep 2023
  Panpsychists reckon they’ve one-upped materialists and non-materialists in explaining how consciousness might have come to be by telling us that everything is conscious. Then they just leave us hanging.
• [marginalium] Economist preferences by cognitive skill and personality — 12 Sep 2023
• [marginalium] The gender well-being gap — 19 Aug 2023
• [marginalium] Historical IQs are made up, and other IQ myths — 18 Aug 2023
• [marginalium] Life After Language — 10 Aug 2023
• [marginalium] Mapping retracted academic papers—locations unsurprising — 3 Aug 2023
• [marginalium] More useful critiques of Freud than the usual ones — 16 Jun 2023
• [marginalium] Why some accidents are unavoidable — 15 Jun 2023
• [marginalium] Most AI Fear Is Future Fear — 12 Jun 2023