“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem,” Albert Camus wrote, “and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest – whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the…
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Originally published December 2018 We’ve all been willing participants in one of modernity’s largest deceptions — a subversive lie we tell ourselves and…
On The Epistemic Status of Real versus Imagined Rewards
The Marshmallow Experiment. Everyone knows the story by now: young children are left alone in a room with a single marshmallow, the attending adult…
I want to begin further exploring the topic of agency with a question: Do you laugh at jokes that you know aren’t funny?
Some reading earlier issues may have wondered, yea people and corporations are changing stories and manipulating small parts of our daily activities, so…
Let’s recap: We are surreptitiously being nudged in a very large number of directions daily. These nudges not only change the information we receive…
Tech companies have a mountain of experimental results that can empirically show how our behavior has and is being changed by them. And they have the…
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