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Small Potatoes

Paul Bloom, Darby Saxbe
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Latest Issues

Some non-obvious advice for psych graduate students

[Originally posted last September; I’m posting it again with minor edits because it’s a new academic year.]

  • Dorsa Amir has an excellent post titled Modest Advice For New Students. If you are going to read one thing about doing well in...
3 days ago
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Kids These Days, Part II

A couple of weeks ago, I published a post called Kids These Days that discussed various claims about the lives of teenagers, with a special focus on debates about the effects of screens and smartphones. I got a lot of reactions on Substack...

13 days ago
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Is AI a form of life?

Podcast with Robert Wright

Robert Wright and I meet every once in a while to discuss the issues of the day. This is a joint production of Small Potatoes and Bob’s Non-Zero Podcast. Here’s the most recent meeting.

20 days ago
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Do doomers believe what they say?

I originally posted this over a year ago, but given the current mood (mostly sparked by the Hugging Face incident), it seems like a good time to send it out again.


When I was a teenager, my rabbi believed that the Lubavitcher Rebbe...

21 days ago
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Kids These Days

From Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation

Kids these days have it great. Compared with decades ago, young children benefit from more time with their parents and much more time with their fathers. Teenagers drink less, smoke less, and ar...

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  • Paul Bloom

    Psychologist who studies human nature

  • Darby Saxbe

    Professor at the University of Southern California. I study the neurobiology of parenthood & wrote the book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives.

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