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Stupidity, gullibility, and other adaptive strategies
Sometimes irrationality isn't a mistake.
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Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
By celebrating "common sense" over expert authority, populism performs a dramatic status inversion. It gifts uneducated voters the power of knowledge…
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Criticising misinformation research doesn't make you a Trump supporter
It's frustrating that this even needs to be said.
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On becoming less left-wing (Part 2)
Learning about political psychology and epistemology made me more sceptical of left-wing politics (and all politics).
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Dan Williams
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Advice for bloggers
Follow these simple steps and you might very slightly increase your chances of becoming a moderately successful Substacker.
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Contra critical theory
Academics are often rewarded for discovering novel ways of criticising and condemning Western societies. This generates lots of biased, one-sided…
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The puzzle of populist devotion: How alliances and propaganda explain right-wing populism
Understanding right-wing populism—and its critics—through a novel theory in political psychology.
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Conspicuous Cognition
Conspicuous Cognition
Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.
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