“Voters on the left and right share broadly similar moral intuitions.” The evidence is continuing to pile up, folks. It’s time for a paradigm shift.

René Mõttus So much for that paper I was about to submit showing that "Mõttus as editor" mediated whether my mediation paper got rejected at EJP...or is that moderation? Whatever.

Marie Curie did not have to fit 9 deliverabkes, 17 milestones and 44 tasks in a 24 months gantt chart as we, who got the grant in her name, have to do

Call for papers: Evolutionary behavioral science and 21st century technology Submission deadline: August 31, 2024 apa.org/pubs/journals/…

Is a ‘virtual you’ a truer reflection of your deepest self? Join Lizzie O'Shea Patrick Stokes Emily van der Nagel + Rob Brooks🔥 SUN 25 AUG // 11:45AM // COUNTERFEIT PEOPLE // CARRIAGEWORKS, SYDNEY Book now: festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/counte… This session is co-presented by UNSW Sydney and #FODI

Find out which generation your listening data suggests you belong to. open.spotify.com/site/music-age…

It’s the apocalypse. What are you looking for? #macgyver #dating

A Field Guide to the Apocalypse | Athena Aktipis interviewed by Rob Brooks for #scienceweek UNSW Science UNSW Centre for Ideas #unswideas

As part of the research for my (someday upcoming) cancer book, I went to some “functional medicine” appointments to see what the appeal was and I am very glad I did it. Here are two parts of it that I think lead people to engage with non-evidence based healthcare. The first is

When no-fault divorce became the norm, domestic-violence rates dropped by some 30%, suicides among women dropped by 16 %, and the number of women murdered by their partners dropped by 10%. nber.org/system/files/w…

I'm getting my writing game on again, after a period of working on other things. Will be putting most of what I write on Substack, with free subscription for the foreseeable future. You can subscribe to it here robbrooks.substack.com/?r=g3gjc&utm_c…

TENET was released 4 years ago today. The 11th feature film of director Christopher Nolan and his first trip into time-travel, the story behind the scenes will have you unsure if your entropy is coming or going… 1/52

It's time for states to #StopKillerRobots.

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AI safety needs evolutionary biology. A lot. #AIsafety #evolution #selfishreplicators time.com/6283958/darwin…

Enjoyed a great chat with Ann Jones on this episode of "What the Duck?" - about "how to be hot" according to nature. #incels #looksmax #hotness #irony abc.net.au/listen/program…

"The War Against the Past" warns that history and its cultural legacy shouldn't be used to propagandise students and the .. public with fashionable... ideologies. But prompts larger questions about history, culture, etc. Russell Blackford theconversation.com/frank-furedi-c… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Every day, when I take this guy for a walk, he sits on this big rock & I say, in my deepest voice. “Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom” or similar. Today Baxter got 2 visits to pride rock in honour of the great James Earl Jones (1931-2024). #remembermufasa

My latest - on the siren-like qualities of voice-based LLM chatbots: The latest version of ChatGPT has a feature you’ll fall in love with. And that’s a worry theconversation.com/the-latest-ver… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Even OpenAI is worried about people developing intimate relationships with the new human-like version of its language model-cum-chatbot. But it should have known the risks. Read more from Rob Brooks @unsw theconversation.com/the-latest-ver…