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confusing the forest for the trees, the word for the tree and the phrase for the forest © 2024 meika loofs samorzewski In a lump of the world we call taxonomy people are split into lumpers and splitters. A "lumper" is a person who assigns examples broadly, judging that differences are not as important as signature similarities. A "splitter" makes…

A list of reaction to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and stuff can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. Derya Sakin Hanoğlu The Ascent of Morality, from Non-Human to Human Animals: An Emotion-Based Account. Middle East Technical University, 2021. via academia.edu. Web. My reaction to her article “On the Evolutionary Origin of Morality”can be found here or on…

Wherein I try to define my terms (see chatgpt etymology for this term/terminus/terminology plex using my own contexts and examples (of themselves). The major context assumes an animal life’s logic, point of view (POV) and scale. The essay is also about those as limits to the understanding we have as animals when we are looking out and about as prey or…

I read Overcoming Bias by Robin Hanson quite often because of that word ‘bias’ in the title. I like to keep up-to-date like a potato. I find choices very interesting as a topic to discuss, because of bias, regardless of being overcome or indulged. Power corrupts by indulging our biases: 'use your anger Luke'. So overcoming in the title is…