Interesting Links for 30-08-2021

[andrewducker]

The autistic spectrum is not a line

(tags:autism )

Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding (Or: How to keep them subscribing)

(tags:Adobe psychology OhForFucksSake )

Psychologists Have Uncovered a Troubling Feature of People Who Seem Nice All the Time

(tags:niceness psychology torture )

Train Wheels Are Cones

(tags:trains design )

To China's chagrin, Japan-Taiwan talks could pave the way for closer ties

(tags:Japan China Taiwan )

Everything turns into crabs or weasels

(tags:animals evolution )

Spectrum of theistic probability (I used to be a 6, nowadays I'm Ignostic)

(tags:religion atheism )

Comments

[calimac]

2) Another variant of confusing your users, this one not driven by economic greed (the events are usually free), is upcoming online events whose progress update e-mails contain reminders to sign up if you haven't already, thus leaving the ordinary person, who can't devote a lot of memory space to such things, uncertain whether they already did so.

Nor is the event's website much help, and indeed on more than one occasion I've wound up with two or more signups, and wasn't that confusing when the event finally arrived.

3) So the argument is that contrarian personalities are actually more "pro-social" because they'll refuse to participate in the Milgram experiment. But have you measured what happens if you ask them to wear Covid masks? Most of the refusers sound very contrarian.

7) So is there a place on the theistic probability line for someone who considers the existence of God to be not a very interesting or useful question?

[danieldwilliam]

On 7) I also think that spectrum is missing something about the impact of one's position on theism. I'm a big Natural Lawyer. Should a god be proven to exist I don't think I would ever see any god or godlike entity as a font of morality or even a legitmate arbiter. They may have greater reasoning abilities than me and one would have to respect that but my position on theism is that I'd hold any god within the same moral framework as any other entity.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes, that's another question entirely!

[adrian_turtle]

That question seems to be considered in a secondary link to "apatheism," which is defined orthogonally to the theisim/atheism spectrum.

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah, something like that seems to fit.

[andrewducker]

2) I agree. Getting emails saying "Do X if you haven't already!" from a site that *knows* if I have or not" is extremely irritating.

3) An excellent question!

7) I'd say that Ignosticism for the former. Not sure about the latter.