Tag: cognition

All the articles with the tag "cognition".

• First Impressions

  Published:Aug 12, 2025 |  at 12:00 AM

  How opinions get made in the wild, why they often feel sturdy but rest on thin ice, and how agenda setting, priming, framing, and moral identity can be used to shape them.

• When Impossible Becomes Muscle Memory

  Published:Apr 23, 2025 |  at 10:00 AM

  Why tasks that feel impossible—like chick-sexing, radiology, or quantum physics—flip to effortless once we find the right representation, and what that means for humans, machines, and the future of thinking.

• Infinite Jest of Autoregression

  Published:Mar 18, 2025 |  at 10:00 AM

  LLMs can describe their internal world in rich, coherent ways, but asking them about technical details on how they, specifically, work is a fool's errand. Understanding the difference is key to meaningful AI interactions, and there's an entire emerging field dedicated to figuring it out.