Experimental History

photo cred: my dad Is AI going to take all the jobs, or what?

I wrote a book!

photo cred: my dad We’re living through an epidemic of loneliness and everybody knows it, except for one small group: people who have actually looked at the data.

photo cred: my dad Most advice is bad.

photo cred: my dad I owe an apology to every English teacher I ever had.

photo cred: my dad We can all agree: the incentives are bad.

photo cred: my dad This is the third annual Experimental History Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree, where people send me their best new blog posts and I reward my favorites with praise and cash.

photo cred: my dad In The Decline of Deviance, I argued that: Many forms of risk-taking and rule-breaking have declined since the 1990s.

photo cred: my dad This is the quarterly links ‘n’ updates post, a collection of things I’ve been reading and doing for the past few months. (1) THE MOST WONDERFUL THING THAT HAPPENED TO TOMMY MCHUGH A British man named Tommy McHugh was on the toilet poop…

photo cred: my dad Here’s a story from 30 years ago that would make no sense today.

photo cred: my dad There’s a guy who sends me a nasty reply to every one of my posts.

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photo cred: my dad It’s time for the annual Experimental History Blog Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree!

photo cred: my dad Here’s a reasonable thought: as the replication crisis has unfolded over the past 10-15 years, a bunch of psychological phenomena have been debunked and discarded forever.

photo cred: my dad The better AI has gotten, the less anxious I’ve become.

photo cred: my dad If they labeled it explicitly, one of the biggest categories on Substack would be called something like, “People Pretending to Be Persecuted”.

photo cred: my dad If you ever want a good laugh, ask an academic to explain what they get paid to do, and who pays them to do it.

photo cred: my dad This is the quarterly links ‘n’ updates post, a selection of things I’ve been reading and doing for the past few months.

photo cred: my dad Underrated Ways to Change the World is one of my most-read posts of all time, I think because people see the state of the world and they’re like, “Oh no, someone should do something about this!”

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photo cred: my dad The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too.

photo cred: my dad Here’s the most replicated finding to come out of my area of psychology in the past decade: most people believe they suffer from a chronic case of awkwardness.

photo cred: my dad All of us, whether we realize it or not, are asking ourselves one question over and over for our whole lives: how much should I suffer?