Nicolau Stanislas

Curious skeptic, actual undergrad in Psychology but thinks he's a researcher-ish. Animals lover. Aware of his blind spot bias. Kantism has too much public space

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

@Sardoche_Lol Pas des micro-trottoirs. Par contre c'est les mêmes personnes que celles qui sont dans les rues, et elles ont le temps pour s'exprimer

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

@Sardoche_Lol Lien : https://t.co/E3F7g4f7DY

C'est une plateforme où des militants et militantes partagent ce qu'ils ont à partager. Les articles sont rédigés par des collectifs ou des individus seuls (des randoms quoi). Il y a de la théorie et de la pratique (par ex. les tactiques en manif)

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

@jb_61820 @SpencrGreenberg Yes. Yet, referring only to scientists here, experts are probably the best to introduce you to a question. They know the field well. Being taught by an expert is not the same as reading one article, or even a review. These lack the nuances and the wisdom that the expert has.

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

Meta-analysis: Taking a holiday demonstrably improves well-being, with benefits lasting beyond the holiday period. While longer holidays result in greater improvements, these decline more sharply upon returning to work and fade more quickly.
The purpose of this study was to meta-analytically quantify the relationship between vacation and employee well-being. Our results reveal that taking a vacation away from work results in a large improvement in well-being. These well-being benefits do decrease upon returning to work but remain higher than before the vacation.
We used the slope of this trend to then estimate that if well-being continued to decline linearly, the effect would fully fade out and go back to baseline levels at 43 days after vacation. Turning to vacation length, we found that while longer vacations result in larger well-being increases, this also coincides with a sharper well-being decline when returning to work and a quicker
fade-out.
Our results suggest that the longer one spends on vacation, the longer the time they spend in a state of high well-being. This state of high well-being becomes their new adaptation level. Once they return to work, the decline in well-being due to work stress will be stronger because of the sharp contrast between work stress and one’s recent positive experiences
In terms of the content of a vacation, we found that physical activities had the strongest relationship with well-being during vacation, social activities had a moderate positive correlation, and passive activities showed no relationship. This also supports the theorization that although social activities do provide positive benefits, physical activities provide unique physiological benefits that predominately social activities (e.g., getting dinner with friends) cannot provide.
[The findings suggest] that extended mental disconnection from work during vacation may be the key recovery experience for improving well-being. While shorter breaks like a weekday evening may not fully prevent work thoughts from resurfacing, longer vacations allow for deeper, sustained detachment, leading to better recovery. This sustained disconnection likely explains why psychological detachment during vacations has such a powerful effect on well-being while other recovery experiences exhibited mixed relationships.

[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

When someone claims a behavior is ‘universal’ across cultures, their assertion is almost never backed by a systematic ethnohistorical survey. Music however is one case where if there are exceptions to universality they are so rare as to be nearly undetectable.

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

@MackenMurphy Interesting ! Got any good source ?

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

#AIAlignment #Longtermism #FermiEstimation #PublicSpending #MoralClarity #EffectiveAltruism #GlobalPriorities #EAFrance

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

1/
I don’t usually post moral takes here.
But today I ran a Fermi estimate and realized something I think needs to be said.
France spends ~€1.1B/year restoring historical buildings.
It spends only ~€100M/year managing advanced AI risks.
A thread 🧵

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

Citations (these are not mere AI amateurs) :
https://t.co/0AWWohE0HD

https://t.co/1crPgvGooP

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

"People think women are morally superior to men."
Decades of scholarship on gender have shown that women are judged to be more caring and more communal than men. Here we use multiple methods (N = 5,376) to test an intriguing claim entailed by this work: People think that women are morally superior to men.
Using reverse-correlation methods, we show that mental representations of the face of “a morally good person” is a woman’s face. Next, using a novel profile-generation task, we find that people are more likely to ascribe more morally good traits to women than to men, both when they are spontaneously thinking of a woman (vs. a man) and when they are assigned to do so. Further, using a large database of 1,864 normed behaviors, we find that behaviors associated with moral goodness are also stereotyped as feminine.
Finally, we use a novel impression updating task to explore a potential consequence of this phenomenon. Specifically, we find that immoral behavior is more diagnostic for women than men. As a result, equivalent moral transgressions lead to larger negative character updating for women than for men.
Another way to interpret the findings is that they demonstrate that women face greater costs to their moral character than men when they break equivalent moral rules, or assert agency. As a result of women being held to higher standards of goodness, then, they face stricter penalties when they do not meet those standards because a prototypical woman might be expected to be maximally good.
In sum, these findings reveal that moral goodness is closely linked to gender concepts: people think women are morally superior to men.

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

@ThePhDPlace My take :
Taking notes on a laptop only lets you have diffuse attention to the lecture
Taking pen-and-paper notes only lets you have a diffuse attention to the lecture

What I do which I think is best is, if my class is recorded, is to give my full attention by not taking notes

[Nicolau Stanislas @a_trynco4u]

@drinkeub Ah yes a sale's tunnel. You didn't even cite your scientific sources, which is the most basic mark of scientific rigor.And you allow yourself to sell a "science-based" product (!).I have bad a priori towards such drinks, but maybe it works. At least please give yourself arguments

[Asimov Press @AsimovPress]

Most people misunderstand the Central Dogma.

In school, perhaps you were taught it as “DNA → RNA → protein.” But that’s a massive oversimplification.

Francis Crick’s real "Central Dogma" was about what *cannot* happen in a cell. Let’s break it down. 🧵