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• [marginalium] How to like everything more — 3 Jan 2025
• [marginalium] How to judge AI performance. — 27 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] Academic writing is getting harder to read — 27 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] How class became aesthetic — 27 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] Fitbit heart-rate when wife asked for a divorce — 27 Dec 2024
• [article] Useful groups are biased groups — 27 Dec 2024
  The strength of our attraction to a group is a function of how different a group is from other groups in ways that we feel like we are, or like we want to be. Our participation in the group depends on how we see it benefitting us, and see us benefitting the group. The stronger both are, the stronger our biases to stay engaged.
• [marginalium] Teachers apparently unable to catch AI papers — 27 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] London Underground Mosquito — 26 Dec 2024
• [article] Mob mentality is fine — 20 Dec 2024
  You could think of a collection of group dynamics like ‘groupthink’ or ‘deindividuation’ or whatever are bad. Or you could consider that our social identity is formed by making the distinctions between in- and out- groups clear. Then it all makes sense.
• [marginalium] We’re not death phobic, we’re death complacent — 20 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] Japan’s “Evaporated People” — 20 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] The Power Of Kitsch — 19 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] America is less polarised than it used to be — 19 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] Innovation Bends Towards Decadence — 19 Dec 2024
• [marginalium] AIs Will Increasingly Attempt Shenanigans — 19 Dec 2024