Brain Lenses

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Digital Fossils
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Colin Wright
5:21
Material Perception
The average sighted person can tell a great deal about the nature of an object or substance just by looking at it.
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Cultural Transgression Variability
A research paper published in mid-2025 suggests that there’s greater support for gay rights (including same-sex unions) in Western cultures but less…
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Association Fallacy
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3:54
Abbreviations
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Understanding Gap
Evolutionary linguistics is the study of language through the lens of biological evolution and psychology.
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Cascading AI Biases
A large language model is a type of system that’s been trained on a corpus of data, and which is capable of generating new data by referencing that…
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Rural Underrepresentation
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Social Judgement Theory
The “Overton Window,” also called the “Window of Discourse,” is a mental model that delineates what’s broadly acceptable and unacceptable within a…
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Game Transfer Phenomenon
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3:53
Engineer’s Disease
There’s a term colloquially used in engineering (and connected) circles, “Engineer’s Disease” (sometimes “Engineer’s Syndrome”), that refers to the…
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Moral Decoupling
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