Can you say "hubris" boys and girls?

"The team hope that the crystal could provide a blueprint to bring humanity back from extinction thousands, millions or even billions of years into the future"

What, some future species is going to go "things are going too well for us, let's bring back humans so they can fuck everything up again?"

https://phys.org/news/2024-09-human-genome-everlasting-memory-crystal.html

#science #HumansAreWeird

Funny that this list of cognitive biases and irrationalities was published in February 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 crisis hit.

https://collabfund.com/blog/100-little-ideas/

Then suddenly, everyone in society had personal experience with the same issues: the shutdown, or virus itself. It's not like the housing shortage or most other issues, when people's experience varies so much that a bunch of folks aren't even aware while other folks can't think of anything else. Simultaneously, a range of data and hypotheses about the issues were being publicized AND we all had time to pay attention.

We each tried - at least briefly, before making up our minds - to reconcile individual experience with the wider pictures hinted at by health data, case studies, proposals, and pundits who had no other news to talk about.

Was the result an unprecedented laboratory for how humans interpret and misinterpret the same phenomena?

Semmelweis Reflex,
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy,
apophenia,
Neglect of Probability,
Perfect Solution Fallacy,
Backfiring Effect,
Fluency Heuristic,
and perhaps most of all, Tribal Affiliation.

I don't know if I'll ever have the information and wisdom to know if I've mostly behaved (and believed) rightly. It's hard to resist confirmation bias.

#psychology #skepticism #COVID19 #science #rationality #2020s #humansareweird

Ties are a fun reminder of how weird humans are.

Some of the most serious people in some of the most serious situations are expected to decorate themselves with a thin piece of colorful fabric. But if it's too colorful or if it's the wrong shape they're subject to mockery and many people won't pay attention to what they have to say.

#JustAThought #Ties #HumansAreWeird

I sometimes wonder what humankind would look like to intelligent life from another world. I suspect we'd be incomprehensible in many ways.

https://agoodreedreview.com/2023/05/29/humans-are-weird/

#shortstory #humansareweird

The black cockatoos have spoken. Incredible downpour here. I had my swimmers on to hop in the pool but I can't possibly go outside and get wet in this.

#WeatherEvent #LivingInTheTropics #HumansAreWeird

Five strange things about the evolution of childhood.

#HumansAreWeird

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/strangest-things-evolution-childhood/