Steve Hargadon: LLMs as Separated Minds
Evolution is not a directing force but a descriptive process of variation and differential survival. Social traits and capacities that […]
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Steve Hargadon: The Cost of Pretending
Every adult knows a particular kind of tiredness. It is not the tiredness of hard labor or too little sleep.
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Steve Hargadon: Manufacturing Dissent
The reasoning we most need is the reasoning our institutions are built to remove. Start with the thing we get
Steve Hargadon: How Conspiracies Actually Work: A Better Map
The Epstein documents have broken a usual two-camp pattern. Not the political party camps, both of which had too many
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Steve Hargadon: Productive Alignment: Understanding Human Wisdom
A couple of months ago, I ran an experiment with large language models. The question I was holding was not
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Human Agency and the Separated Mind
In my The Separated Mind post, I drew on the Buddhist / Jonathan Haidt image of the rider and the elephant to
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The Why of Human History
For those of you who have tracked the tsunami of activity from me lately, you’ll know that I have been
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Steve Hargadon: Our Performative Lives
There used to be a small class of people who lived public-facing lives for a living. Actors, politicians, royalty, clergy,
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Steve Hargadon: Intellectual Capture
There is a mechanism running in your life right now that organizes more of your behavior than you would like
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The Law of Inevitable Exploitation (L.I.E)
There is a principle operating beneath virtually every system that humans build, sustain, and participate in. It is not a