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On Aesthetics — On things that are beautiful

[marginalium] Is culture socially costly — 30 Jun 2025
[marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones — 25 Jun 2025
[marginalium] AI personality extraction from faces (pdf) — 9 Jun 2025
[marginalium] The way of code — 30 May 2025
[marginalium] Eurasian Demonology — 16 May 2025
[marginalium] I'd Rather Read The Prompt — 16 May 2025
[marginalium] Tales Of The Yucca Man — 8 May 2025
[marginalium] The universe as black hole reproduction — 8 May 2025
[article] Preferring Coherence — 2 May 2025
Cogntive dissonance often describes a bias towards seeing ourselves as coherent. Sure, it’s sneaky and prevalent, but entirely necessary. And, other times we tolerate how noisy we are, keeping us open to new insights and better equipped for a complex world.
[marginalium] Why Have Sentence Lengths Decreased? — 1 May 2025
[marginalium] Social Media and Moore's Law — 1 May 2025
[article] Cognitive dissonance isn't discomfort — 25 Apr 2025
Cognitive dissonance is often thought of as the discomfort we have with conflicting cognitions. But it’s really about how the brain will smooth over dissonant cognitions, whether they’re uncomfortable or not. It happens a lot.
[marginalium] Distraction is mind obesity — 24 Apr 2025
[marginalium] Pretty accurate AI generated DMT trips — 24 Apr 2025
[article] Evolution is overrated — 18 Apr 2025
Without time-travel, evolutionary narratives can only identify theories that don’t make sense (like death drives). It can’t tell you what theories do make sense, because you can make many to explain the same thing. All they do is let you see what people wish the world was like.