On Implicit Association Tests, Sub-Optimal Thinking and Jefferson’s House
Today we look at why we think that “irrational” and “sub-optimal” are always the same thing, we learn what became of the house where the Declaration of Independence was written and we begin to...
View ArticleMcGonigal in the Defense of Games, Ambiguity of Insurance Prices and the...
Today we see what’s so special about the number Four, game designer and researcher Jane McGonigal defends video games, and we see how ambiguity is priced into insurance. Jane McGonigal: Truths &...
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Kubrick on Mystery, The Effect of Financial Incentives, and a Riddle About...
Today we explore the effects of financial incentives in experimental methodology, we solve a riddle about identity, and Stanley Kubric explains the importance of mystery. There’s something in the human...
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Transcendent Attacks, Incentives, and the Weight of the World
Today we look at a selection from Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep, we see how exactness affects the degree to which we learn, and the Earth steps onto the scale. If during the last thousand seconds...
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