dconroybeam.bsky.social
Associate professor at UCSB. Evolutionary and computational perspectives on human mating. Occasional nature photos. He/him.
https://www.danconroybeam.com/
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I'm not sure I'm sold on David's brand of cynicism but I'm glad to hear the back and forth.
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😂 I'll have to read your book to see if I can finally wrap my head around free will
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Yes, to your first point. Just sharing in the existential dread
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There are many, many, many more organizations of matter with dysfunctional institutions than functional institutions...
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Yeah. Yeah...
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Ah! Game of telephone! That's a better way of describing it than what I said!
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Sounds like you need a lab film night
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So many of our colleagues insist on being unlikeable and then complain that no one likes them. I worry sometimes the field is losing connection to its roots.
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Will a single definition of sex/gender will be useful for both determining who should play what sport and who would benefit from what medical interventions? Unlikely.
So what is this single definition actually improbably useful for? Stoking bigotry to secure cheap culture war victories.
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A lot of wisdom here as always. But I'd go a step further: the purpose of a system is what it does. So we can use science to infer the true aims of such an order by observing what it is actually useful for doing. On those grounds, this is a transparent attempt to pervert science into a tool of hate.
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😂The answer for me would be nothing! What would that say?
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Oh I like 3 and 9 quite a bit, thank you!
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Ah! I love asking what they're excited for. Thank you!
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Oh I like times you've failed much more than tell me about a growth area or a weakness-that's-really-an-X-man-power
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Yeah, I'm skeptical of the information content in these interviews (informed by some recent data we've collected) but unfortunately have to make some tough decisions before in-persons. I have plans for more constructive in-person conversations but I've never felt happy with my Zoom interviews