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[marginalium] If the anti-fluoride people turn out to be right... — 20 Oct 2024
[marginalium] I Don't Drink — 18 Oct 2024
[marginalium] The real reason male college enrollment is dropping? — 18 Oct 2024
[article] Confirmation bias is all there is — 18 Oct 2024
Many cognitive biases seem like they can be boiled down to a handful of fundamental beliefs, and then belief-consistent information processing (i.e. confirmation bias).
[marginalium] Influencer career progression is determined by consistent effort — 17 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Anchoring Digital Sovereignty — 16 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Nature journal has retracted over 200 papers in a month. — 15 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Plutocrat Archipelagos — 11 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Seeing into the past, literally — 11 Oct 2024
[article] Neurotransmitters are a confidence game — 11 Oct 2024
Neurotransmitters are psychological snake oil. A confidence game pop-psychologists play with their audience. There is frankly no convincing story of human behaviour made more comprehensible by talking about dopamine.
[marginalium] The Horizon Of Desire — 11 Oct 2024
[marginalium] AI and Intelligence Analysis — 10 Oct 2024
[marginalium] "A sense of beauty" in untrained deep neural networks. — 10 Oct 2024
[marginalium] On culture specific mental disorders. — 10 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Get Ready for AI Religions: Sam Altman, Transhumanism and The Merge — 4 Oct 2024

btrmt. (text-only version)

The full site with interactive features is available at btr.mt.

btrmt. (betterment) examines ideologies worth choosing. Created by Dorian Minors—Cambridge PhD in cognitive neuroscience, Associate Professor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Core philosophy: humans are animals first, with automatic patterns shaped for us, not by us. Better to examine and choose.

Core concepts. Animals First: automatic patterns of thought and action, but our greatest capacity is nurture. Half Awake: deadened by systems that narrow rather than expand potential. Karstica: unexamined ideologies (hidden sinkholes beneath). Credenda: belief systems we should choose deliberately.

The manifesto. Cynosure (focus): betterment, gratification, connection. Architecture (support): inner (somatic, spiritual, thought) and outer (digital, collective, wealth).

Mission. Not answers but examination. Break academic gatekeeping. Make sciences of mind accessible. Question rather than prescribe.

Writing style. Scholarly without jargon barriers. Philosophical yet practical—grounded in neuroscience and lived experience. Reflective, discovery-oriented. Literary references and metaphor. Critical of systems that narrow human potential. Rejects "humans are flawed"—we're half awake, not broken.

Copyright. BTRMT LIMITED (England/Wales no. 13755561) 2026. Dorian Minors 2026.

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About Dorian Minors. Started btrmt. in 2013 to share sciences of mind with people who weren't studying them. Background: six years Australian Defence Force (Platoon Commander, Infantry); Gates Cambridge Scholar; PhD cognitive neuroscience, University of Cambridge (2018-2024); currently Associate Professor, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Research interests: neural basis of intelligent behaviour, decision intelligence, ritual formation/breakdown, ethical leadership, wellbeing.

External projects (links also available via Analects):

Lectures: Podcasts exploring ideologies

Neurotypica: Brain science guide for non-scientists

Black Cortex: Leadership consulting

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