Mar 3, 2021
Science has been weirdly silent about aholes and aholery, a real and common kind of behavior not covered by psych diagnosis or criminology. Here's an overview of how we'll think scientifically about the aholes in your life in the context of aholes overall.
Mar 3, 2021
They'll say calling people aholes is mean, name-calling, a waste of time, counterproductive, and dehumanizing. They'll say no one's an ahole or everyone's an ahole. They'll say just ignore them. Here's why we're going to study them anyway.
Mar 3, 2021
You can't tell an ahole by their causes, rhetorical style, personal histories, motivations, demographics, power, impact, the range of their aholery, their exploitation of cheap rhetorical tricks, or how they make us feel. So what does distinguish an ahole?
Mar 3, 2021
People categorize things intuitively and often get it wrong. What's the best way to categorize? Here we explore logic and science and conclude that the best way to diagnose aholery is to explain how they evolved. There are plenty of animal predators but no aholes. Being an ahole is a human thing. In the next...
Mar 3, 2021
A cradle (origins of life) to grave (current situation) overview of the evolution of aholes. All organisms have to keep out toxins and let in nutrients. Human language turns this kind of "selective interaction" into confirmation bias, preventing discouragement, absorbing encouragement. Confirmation bias is a problem we...