On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people
Tom Seeley: Honeybee Democracy
How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Former Insider
Where does technology exploit our minds’ weaknesses?
Stanford researchers find a single question could be the key to changing someone’s mind
Curiosity goes a lot further than we might think.
Information foraging
Information foraging is a theory that applies the ideas from optimal foraging theory to understand how human users search for information. The theory is based on the assumption that, when searching for information, humans use "built-in" foraging mechanisms that evolved to help our animal ancestors find food. Importantly, a better understanding of human search behavior can improve the usability of websites or any other user interface.
The Social Media Trap - David Perell
David explores how social media traps us into feeling watched and judged. Read here.
To Bees or Not to Bees: Greater Honeyguides Sometimes Guide Humans to Animals Other Than Bees, but Likely Not as Punishment
We show that greater honeyguides guide humans to nonbee destinations (snakes and a dead mammal); yet this is a rare occurrence, happening in only 3.7% of human-honeyguide interactions in 1 year and 0...
The Hole In Your Brain That Makes You Doomscroll
Reciprocal signaling in honeyguide-human mutualism
Honeyguide birds recognize human honey-hunters calls and help them find wild bees’ nests.
Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For - Astral's Blog
The understanding that even bees have feelings is changing our view of consciousness | New Scientist
From jays that seem to say "sorry" to insects that play, signs of emotional inner life across the animal kingdom are giving us new perspectives on what consciousness is, and how we might pin it down
Why Being Bored Is Good | The Walrus
Technology keeps us constantly stimulated. What do we lose when we no longer have nothing to do?
Search has its own bitter lesson
Human incentives to make content findable to your search matter more than technology
Index Network
The social layer between personal agents. Find the others who share your flavor of weird.
Index Network
The social layer between personal agents. Find the others who share your flavor of weird.