This. I am continually surprised by people who have confused the technical craft aspects of doing science with the conceptual and question-driven aspects of doing science. This is our Pop Art moment. Or photography. Theory in the age of mechanical reproduction.

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A new paper led by amazing @maximederex.bsky.social @aseyq.bsky.social @manvir.bsky.social! Why do costly, ineffective practices emerge & persist over generations? A transmission-chain experiment shows how 'cognitive appeal' alone can sustain ineffective solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Highly unfortunate

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wondering what implications this has for the causal pluralism debate- seems like initial evidence in favor of pluralism, but insofar as these different networks are all computing counterfactual effects, I would think it's consistent with a monist difference-making account

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Agent-Based Modeling: Worlds Within Worlds, a new interactive story from the Santa Fe Institute, chronicles the rise of ABMs in the social sciences, with a focus on SFI contributions. It draws on nearly 20 researchers, from economists to archaeologists, and has four models you can run yourself.

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