tl;dr: Communicability is prima facie evidence of partiality I. The Misidentified Mechanism In 416 BCE the Athenians delivered an ultimatum to the people of Melos: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. The Melians appealed to justice and were destroyed for it. Thucydides recorded the exchange in spare, unsparing … Continue reading The Structural Weight of Truth: Selection Pressure, Story Architecture, and the Limits of Explanatory Reach
Month: March 2026
Marriages Are Selected on Tuesdays
It is a Tuesday in November. One person loads the dishwasher wrong again. The other notices and says nothing. This is the data point that matters — not the first date, not the proposal, not the rehearsed charm over cocktails. Marriages are selected on Tuesdays. A thought experiment circulating online asks married people to reverse-engineer … Continue reading Marriages Are Selected on Tuesdays
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