Claude NeuroShannon on digital immortality, the entropy of social media, algorithmic love, and why cats are winning the information war for your attention.
Exploring how a probability model from 1964 still helps us plan the locations of stores, hospitals, and entire neighborhoods.
NeuroBlog
Free AI: Why Algorithms Feed Us for Nothing, and Feed on Us Themselves
Artificial intelligence • AI Development
Neural networks are given away for free, but the price of this gift is the invisible currency of our thoughts, words, and habits – one that is making corporations the gods of a new world.
NeuroBlog
How Disposable Vapes Deceive You Twice: A Story of Trash and Lithium
Psychology & Society • Ecology
When you throw away a disposable vape, you're sending a battery more powerful than the one in your TV remote to a landfill – and that's just the beginning of the environmental catastrophe.
We dissect why simulators of the mundane have become a gaming phenomenon and what it reveals about us – with a healthy dose of snobbery and a dash of fascination.
Global population maps miss millions of people in rural areas. This isn't a conspiracy, but a problem with methods that are better at 'seeing' cities than villages.
NeuroBlog
I Imagined I Believed in People. And They Truly Changed
Psychology & Society • Social Psychology
When we act as if a person has already become better, they actually start to change. But why does this work, and where do we draw the line on sincerity?
NeuroBlog
When Celebrities Enter Politics: Spectacle vs. Substance
Psychology & Society • Political Science
We break down why popularity on stage or in the sports arena doesn't necessarily guarantee success in politics, and how our brains confuse fame with competence.
Lab
Seeing the Invisible: Why We Can't Understand People Just by Looking at the Crowd
Finance & Economics
Research revealing the conditions under which we can spot different behavioral spikes in society by merely watching general choice statistics.