2026 Q1 update - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind
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since the last update my reading diet has shifted heavily towards papers and short stories as opposed to books. lots to recommend! learned helplessness at fifty: insights from neuroscience. the authors spent fifty years understanding the phenomenon of learned helplessness (where a person or animal does not do anything to help themselves out of a harmful situation). along the journey they invent several branches of psychology and neuroscience, until eventually the theories are good enough for them to conclude that agency is learned and passivity is the default (early experimental evidence…
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