Tag: psychology

• Zoom Call #1

  And I said, I said, ‘a simple point that people forget to explain to outsiders about the consumption of random/plain/goofy/noisy artifacts is that it’s not the random/plain/goofy/noisy artifact that is doing the work but the 3000 years long acummulation of techniques for attentively scrutizing objects (which developed as a corollary of 3000 years of creating…

  suspendedreason

  November 17, 2021

  Blog

  ambiguity, Amerikkkkka, anti-inductivity, Berlin, Bret Weinstein, Eliezer Yudkowsky, indeterminacy, Jordan B. Peterson, Peli Grietzer, Pierre Bourdieu, power, psychiatry, psychology, reputation, schizophrenia, selection games, sexual capital, strategic interaction, surrogation, symbolic capital, Terrence Malick, Web3, White Lotus

• Notes on the Inexact Sciences

  “Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer questions in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness.”

  suspendedreason

  August 30, 2021

  Essays

  art, Bruno Latour, Camille Paglia, Christopher Alexander, deception, ethnomethodology, fit, free will, generalized compatibilism, information logistics, Karl Friston, Ken Liberman, Kevin Scharp, literary theory, literature, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meaning, New Criticism, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, predictive processing, psychoanalysis, psychology, resonance, rhetoric, Sarah Perry, stamp collecting, Tal Yarkoni, the inexact sciences

• From measurement to degeneration

  There is no characteristic that is common to everything that we call games… It is a family-likeness term. Think of ball-games alone: some, like tennis, have a complicated system of rules; but there is a game which consists just in throwing the ball as high as one can, or the game which children play of…

  suspendedreason

  January 15, 2021

  Essays

  C. Thi Nguyen, Campbell's Law, degenerate play, flopping, game studies, gamification, Goodhart's Law, institutional theory, Ludwig Wittgenstein, metrics, opticratics, optics, psychology, signaling, social science, surrogation, systems theory

• Economics thinking

  Mistakes in business or in science are costly and deplorable, but mistakes in the conduct of life are usually dangerous to life itself. To the tack of illuminating man’s progress toward a better understanding of human nature, this book is dedicated. Alfred Adler (1927) Everybody gets something out of every transaction. House of Games 1.…

  suspendedreason

  October 27, 2020

  Essays

  Agnes Callard, all communication is manipulation, David Mamet, evolutionary psychology, Jonathan Franzen, Knut Hamsun, psychology, reciprocity, strategic interaction, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Schelling, Tyler Cowen