TODAY I LEARNED: Everything weโve heard in pop #psychology about the marshmallow experiment with delayed gratification is junk science!
The part about the sunk cost fallacy made me ๐๐๐
Marshmallow, Ph.D., by @profmusgrave https://t.co/QRESoQCPHA
Repost: @tomwalkr says that if you dilute the pool of collective knowledge, with #AI generated spam, you effectively make real knowledge unfindable. In a similar vein, #contentmarketing ppl have spammed Google results with so much drivel that finding truth has never been harder
My company just listed on LinkedIn a job posting for what Iโm currently doing (so weโre hiring another UX writer) and now thanks to salary transparency laws, I see that they intend to pay this person $32k-$90k more than they currently pay me, so I applied.
The things Iโll talk about on here will fit this pattern. Seemingly isolated incidents of societal absurdity, tied in to a theme that we need to figure out how to cooperate if we are to solve the biggest problems (esp. climate change).
#ClimateActionNow
Most unsolved problems in the world today are the ones that require cooperation from multiple parties.
Boring: apple makes a better phone camera:
Beaningful: EU bans vanity sizing in clothes (I wish)
The first can be done unilaterally, but the second needs wider buy-in
Invention idea: a flavored vape pen, but without the vapor (just aroma). This is basically to give non and former smokers a haptic experience tied to controlled breathing, something that regulates mood without needing drugs #QuitSmoking
Alright beautiful Twitter people (and bots), my personal account is finally out of Twitter jail ๐ฅณCheck out my backup account @Jamie0vershared for my past writings.
The US gov is giving #BigPharma $3 BILLION of taxpayer money to fund research, development, and manufacturing of promising #coronavirus treatments... but there's no guarantee that Americans will get affordable access to those treatments.
Hey, @EFillerCorn - Stand with voters and bring SJ18, the anti-gerrymandering amendment, to a vote. Last year you said you wanted to stop gerrymandering in Virginia. Nowโs your chance to prove it. Put #CountryOverParty#Endgerrymandering via @representus
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2918: only an idea
2019: released for android
2020: live in all app stores
2021: get paid crypto for sharing opinions?!?
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All we do is win. @representus is leading the anticorruption movement in America.
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This is my face after turning a stranger from Virginia into an empowered anticorruption activist.โฆ https://t.co/JmP8mtEIYV
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Congrats NYC on choosing better elections! May the rest of the US follow suit!
Thanks to the folks at @representus for coordinating our volunteer efforts!
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