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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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Colin Wright
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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Colin Wright
Game Transfer Phenomenon
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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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Colin Wright
Moral Decoupling
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3:14
Paperwork Trap
The term “red tape” typically applies to bureaucratic or administrative frictions that inflate the time or resource costs of completing some kind of…
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Colin Wright
Social Surrogacy
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June 2025

Color Perception
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3:59
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder, or SAD, often manifests as an intense fear of negative evaluations from other people.
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Colin Wright
Collateral Contempt
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Mind Blanking
The term ‘absent-mindedness’ usually refers to a lapse in attention and memory, perhaps losing the thread of a task or forgetting someone’s name at an…
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