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  • Study Shows AI Advice Depolarizes Choices on Average

    Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in economics and the social sciences. Contrary to the vast majority of predictions in an expert survey we conduct, we find that AI advice depolarizes choices on average, moving participants away from their initial leanings. — Read on humanprogress.org/study-shows-ai-advice-depolarizes-peoples-choices-on-average/

  • Why the Healthiest Generation Is the Loneliest

    At the layer of biology, the Enhanced Self incorporates the belief that the human body is akin to a single-issue hardware device, whose owner should obsessively seek to extend its operating life beyond its scheduled date of obsolescence through relentless work and eagle-eyed neuroticism. At the layer of sociology, the Enhanced Self is inseparable from…

  • AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fast

    On Friday, a Reddit-style social network called Moltbook reportedly crossed 32,000 registered AI agent users, creating what may be the largest-scale experiment in machine-to-machine social interaction yet devised. It — Read on arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/ai-agents-now-have-their-own-reddit-style-social-network-and-its-getting-weird-fast/

  • We need to rethink pubs

    We need to rethink pubs

    People are drinking less, reducing calories, reducing alcoholism, ingesting less gluten, drinking more water. But alcohol is more than just bad things. Alcohol brings people together. I want a pub that serves zero to low calorie drinks that still gets people talking. Can we do that?

  • 21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties

    Parties are a public service, you’re doing people a favor by throwing them. Someone might meet their new best friend or future lover at your gathering. In the short term, lovely people may feel less lonely, and that’s thanks to you. In the long term, whole new children may ultimately exist in the world because…

  • How to organize YouTube for maximum sanity

    YouTube is algorithmic whirlpool, sucking you into endless low-quality videos of Minecraft YouTubers, conspiracy theories and productivity gurus that leave you scrolling. Before you know it, you’ve learned nothing except the easiest way to mine diamond ore. You’ve given away your precious life essence to advertisers and gained nothing in return. There is a much…

  • My Instagram: We all die immediately of a Brazilian butt lift

    My Instagram: We all die immediately of a Brazilian butt lift

    “When you think, ‘Social media is terrible,’ which are you thinking of most?”