analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

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analects organised according to the fundamental questions of philosophy

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  • the economy of small pleasures 8 Jul 2025 [marginalium] The continued failure of the economy of small pleasures. extrinsic incentives such as money or grades to learn [make it] harder to learn ne...
  • the line between sleep and wake 6 Jul 2025 [marginalium] There is a thin line between sleep and wake. You know this if you have sleep paralysis or are a lucid dreamer. In that spirit, here, we have...
  • are intelligentsia less happy 26 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Are intelligentsia less happy? An argument for why intelligent people are less happy—because intelligence does not measure how good you are...
  • the personal and private nature of smartphones 25 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones: because smartphones are considerably more personal and private than PCs, using them activat...
  • nature is nurture 18 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Adding to the point of Genetics is Nurture, this article suggests the same thing but the other way around. An environment is specified often...
  • why individuals avoid information 17 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Why Individuals Avoid Information: A common hypothesis posits that individuals strategically avoid information to hold particular beliefs o...
  • ai spiritual bliss attractor state (pdf) 6 Jun 2025 [marginalium] AI spiritual bliss attractor state. Anthropic put one of its models (Claude 4 Opus) in a sandbox to chat to itself and: In 90-100% of inter...
  • does testosterone effect economic preferences? 30 May 2025 [marginalium] Does Testosterone Effect Economic Preferences? This paper says no: Participants were randomly allocated to receive a single dose of either...
  • get adhd meds with chatgpt 30 May 2025 [marginalium] Get ADHD Meds with ChatGPT. Research paper on the more unexpected utility of AI coaching: This preregistered study aimed to assess whether...
  • being a bit underemployed 23 May 2025 [marginalium] Being a bit underemployed. The only thing interesting about this article is that someone was so surprised they thought it was worth writing...
  • can we trust social science yet? 23 May 2025 [marginalium] Can We Trust Social Science Yet? Short answer is no, but it’s a good introduction into where social sciences are falling down. In particular...
  • drink water, get skinny 16 May 2025 [marginalium] Drink water, get skinny. Highlights of the journal article: Water consumption is associated with numerous health benefits including greate...
  • repression of memories is beside the point 13 May 2025 [marginalium] The ‘thorny’ topic of repressed memories usually misses the fact that at least some ‘repression’ is the same thing ‘directed forgetting’, th...
  • adhd tiktoks are not about adhd 1 May 2025 [marginalium] ADHD TikToks are not about ADHD: … in the top 100 #ADHD TikTok videos. Despite the videos’ immense popularity (collectively amassing nearly...
  • endometriosis is scary! 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Endometriosis is scary! It’s a nice article too.
  • distraction is mind obesity 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Distraction is mind obesity. It’s another ‘the attention economy is bad’ article. But I liked it because it’s not just about taking our atte...
  • nostalgia as a parasite 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Nostalgia as a parasite: It is now commonly understood that nostalgia can also be a prosocial emotion in the sense that it helps us recogni...
  • we're wrong about adhd 18 Apr 2025 [marginalium] We’re wrong about ADHD. Use a paywall buster: some scientists have begun to argue that the traditional conception of A.D.H.D. as an unchang...
  • the religious don't trust scientists' moral character 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The religious don’t trust scientists’ moral character (in the US) How do perceptions of scientists’ moral values relate to support for scie...
  • on kahneman's assisted suicide 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] On Kahneman’s assisted suicide. WSJ, so need paywall buster. No particular angle here, but interesting to see people try to apply all the bi...

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