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[marginalium] The Vatican’s Secret Saint-Making Process — 13 Dec 2024
[marginalium] DeepMind is training embodied agents — 13 Dec 2024
[marginalium] The diminishing returns of research — 13 Dec 2024
[marginalium] AI model efficiency improvements may make them tiny — 13 Dec 2024
[article] Catastrophic leadership is actually really hard — 13 Dec 2024
For group dynamics to produce really bad behaviour, you really need to work at it. You have to train your authority figures to be cruel, prevent dissent or disengagement, and intervene all the time to stop people fixing things. It’s hard.
[marginalium] A taxonomy of modern ethical values — 6 Dec 2024
[marginalium] A linkless internet — 6 Dec 2024
[marginalium] Where Geniuses Hide Today — 6 Dec 2024
[marginalium] Who can claim Aristotle? — 6 Dec 2024
[marginalium] A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors — 6 Dec 2024
[article] Motivation pt. II: Stickytaping it all together — 6 Dec 2024
We can think of motivations in terms of three things. There is the content: what things motivate us. Then there is the process: how things motivate us. And lastly, we have those things that maintain our motivation.
[article] Motivation pt. I: Haphazard Dichotomies — 29 Nov 2024
Individually, the disconnected dichotomies of intrinsic vs extrinsic, normative vs motivating, ‘cognitive’ and ‘biological’, and the like have little utility. But when you put them together, you can get some quite juicy fidelity on why people do what they do.
[marginalium] The Super-Rich And Their Secret Worlds — 27 Nov 2024
[marginalium] The Myth Of The Loneliness Epidemic — 27 Nov 2024
[marginalium] The neuroscience of heartbreak — 27 Nov 2024