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13. Man Disassociated
“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…
Hyon S Chu
Feb 2, 2021
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December 2020
11. The Unbearable Lightness of Self-Improvement
Originally published December 2018 We’ve all been willing participants in one of modernity’s largest deceptions — a subversive lie we tell ourselves and…
Hyon S Chu
Dec 3, 2020
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October 2020
10. The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (Pt. 2)
On The Epistemic Status of Real versus Imagined Rewards
Hyon S Chu
Oct 21, 2020
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September 2020
9. The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (Pt. 1)
The Marshmallow Experiment. Everyone knows the story by now: young children are left alone in a room with a single marshmallow, the attending adult…
Hyon S Chu
Sep 30, 2020
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August 2020
8. What I talk about when I talk about agency
I want to begin further exploring the topic of agency with a question: Do you laugh at jokes that you know aren’t funny?
Hyon S Chu
Aug 19, 2020
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7. The Motte, The Bailey and The Inevitable Conclusion
Some reading earlier issues may have wondered, yea people and corporations are changing stories and manipulating small parts of our daily activities, so…
Hyon S Chu
Aug 5, 2020
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July 2020
6. P-Hacking Reality in Real-Time
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…
Hyon S Chu
Jul 29, 2020
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5. The P stands for People
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…
Hyon S Chu
Jul 22, 2020
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4. The Red Herring of Data Collection
Technology and AI ethicists have it wrong. The danger of technology and AI is not the tired old tropes of surveillance, tracking, or Cambridge…
Hyon S Chu
Jul 15, 2020
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3. Compliance and the Eroding Away of Agency
Guest post by Zero HP Lovecraft
Hyon S Chu
Jul 8, 2020
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2. Nudging, a Parable
The commercialization of subtle behavior manipulation
Hyon S Chu
Jul 1, 2020
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June 2020
1. Stoicism as Agency
Stoicism is often mischaracterized as a state of being unfeeling, free of passions, or being immovably calm and collected. I propose this idea is far…
Hyon S Chu
Jun 24, 2020
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