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Inspiring speech by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias on the 35th anniversary of his award | We remember to continue making a better life possible https://t.co/gncUPSEINT

Good conversation with my colleague, former Harvard Med School Dean Jeffery Flier. https://t.co/Jx9tdjbn0U

Education Commentary is Dominated by Optimism Bias, according to @freddiesubstack, though I'd narrow it down to the doctrine of the Blank Slate. https://t.co/rYsScYW1Np

Another excellent analysis, this one by @ourworldindata's @HannahRitchie We need the right kind of climate optimism https://t.co/YCNiWS2fyO via @voxdotcom

The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past. Excellent case by @bryanrwalsh, echoing & expanding arguments I made in Enlightenment Now. https://t.co/mO1Qk8yUz4 via @voxdotcom

Over-diagnosing democratic decline https://t.co/81wvNUsTTR

Evolutionary psychology, contra the canards, is a deep and predictive discipline -- Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne @whyevolutionistrue reviews 4 excellent articles by @LaithAlShawaf https://t.co/Qk2Fx3aoO6 via @Evolutionistrue

Algorithms and artificial intelligence may be changing our world and behavior in ways we don't fully understand. Here's what humans need to keep in mind. Good interview with cognitive psychologist (and major influence on my thinking) Gerd Gigerenzer. https://t.co/vRd5WBBRx9

Photographers everywhere are mourning the closure of the indispensable https://t.co/zgP1xTcaCJ, mysteriously killed by parent company Amazon. https://t.co/3ohwnhwIyF

OFFICIAL TRAILER | Oliver Stone's NUCLEAR NOW | DOCUMENTARY https://t.co/srbpXhHNIc via @YouTube

How progress happens: Not everywhere all at once; there are always reversals & exceptions. But with some humanistic trends, the spread of ideas makes resistance is futile. Taliban Leader Faces Blowback Over Girls’ School Ban—From His Own Movement - WSJ https://t.co/TmZ1YtVg9A

The climate challenge isn't just that fossil fuels emit C02; it's also that Dems don't control govt always everywhere forever. To solve climate change, stop branding it a left-wing crusade. | How to Make Climate Change a Bipartisan Priority https://t.co/uMXWfMHpcu via @politico

Nature ever astonishes.... https://t.co/KOlQwkMN7S

Credit where it's due: "Compared to just two years ago, the NY Times’ reporting is more trustworthy, its Opinion section more ideologically diverse, and its management more sturdy." The New York Times Is Finally Moving on From 2020 https://t.co/dGswbjFZDA

As a child I had measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox, all rare in developed countries today, thanks to one of humanity's greatest inventions, the vaccine. The success of chickenpox vaccines, by Dr. Saloni Dattani @salonium https://t.co/LAaQ9loGP0

Why read The Blank Slate? Recommendation by the behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin, on the newish book recommendation site https://t.co/ud4RuYkDTx. https://t.co/At00eCYTp2

Meet Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner Adrian Matejka, Cuyahoga County Public Library, where he'll announce the winners of the 88th Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for literature on racism and diversity. (I'm privileged to have served on the jury for 21 yrs.) https://t.co/YvJnCYF9vn

New documentary by Oliver Stone on nuclear power, co-written by my collaborator Joshua Goldstein. I'll be co-hosting a sneak preview at Harvard's Center for the Environment and Salata Institute in early April. https://t.co/Qipgt71drc

And speaking of happiness, Global happiness has been 'remarkably resilient' over the past three years https://t.co/ZaaUQZucMn via @TheWeek

Happy Happiness Day! International Day of Happiness | United Nations https://t.co/YVttcTrHay

International Day of Happiness | United Nations https://t.co/YVttcTrHay

Under- or nonreported good news on Maternal Mortality, a Treaty for the High Seas, the Restoration of the Atlantic Forest, & much else from @future_crunch https://t.co/JD6JiRdfqF

I've pondered too. Perhaps: 1 A composite averages away the flaws in each doc, just as a composite face is prettier than its inputs. 2 GPT overweights edited text like NYT. 3 Human feedback downvotes bad output. 4 Post-processing, like the wokish apologies for sensitive topics. https://t.co/0J37mvnrWC

Bill Gates: We Must Fight Pandemics Like We Fight Fires https://t.co/vUN4FU9NuS

Excellent syntactic ambiguity (and reminder that punctuation matters) from financial journalist Matt Klein: “This was more a case of a ‘bank-run by idiots’ rather than a ‘bank run by idiots.’"

'Please' Is No Longer Polite - The Atlantic. (I suggest that its recent possible decline is driven by the tension between the fear of seeming rude & the fear of seeming fulsome, & the historical trend toward informalization.) https://t.co/uBKm8FeBn9

Scientific journal behemoth Elsevier unveils its policy on The Use of AI and AI-assisted Technologies in Scientific Writing here. https://t.co/SW42OGSu9J

In Rationality, I (semi-whimsically) include an index of 90+ cognitive biases, but surely the human mind isn't just a mass of biases. A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for ..Biases - Aileen Oeberst, Roland Imhoff,2023 https://t.co/YpVcMLP3fl

The world faces big challenges, but an AI turning us into paperclips isn't one of them. I take on the misconception that intelligence comes bundled w megalomania & is a magical potion that in sufficient quantities can achieve any outcome. @RichardHanania https://t.co/WaLADFocGa

The disappointing thing about the NYer profile of philosopher Agnes Callard & her men openly analyzing their marriages is how shallow & obtuse the analyses are, a symptom of the humanities' incuriosity about deep ideas from the sciences... https://t.co/99DsdQeybb via @NewYorker

My new pice in @TIME is a profile of the most interesting think tank in American politics https://t.co/TEuPfdQCsO

awesome quote from https://t.co/2n03ZZglg8 https://t.co/mU2Dp6kVIh

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