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This is a really useful resource overall. Some of these alternatives, however, offer low content moderation compared to their corresponding Google products. I see no disclaimer, fo…

I'm not sure it went anywhere, because this is a pretty accurate description of the PhD system.

"The appearance of new ways of thinking and communicating, between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago, constitutes the Cognitive Revolution. What caused it? We’re not sure. The most commo…

This is assuming additive growth, not multiplicative growth. The expectation is relevant when you have additive growth, but multiplicative growth is the relevant model here because…

Exactly. Mentioned briefly in the article (e.g., the habituation of chimpanzees to researchers), but the idea of non-human "culture" has been strange to/dismissed by researchers fo…

I'm not sure it's that cut and dry, nor that any learning needs to be "undone". The study itself (referenced in this article) is co-authored by Pinker, and these ideas take time an…