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Tom Stafford
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Tom Stafford writes Reasonable People, a personal blog at tomstafford.substack.com about science and philosophy. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link the post 'Reasonably emotional' on how emotion relates to thinking, citing it as evidence against the claim that emotion is a parallel process to logical thought.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Psychological science on rationality, reason and persuasion.
What Hacker News says?
> emotion is a parallel decision making process to logical thought. No it's not. We know for a fact this is not true. Here's an interesting story (but you can also find ample published literature on it, or even just like... think about how brains work): https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/reasonably-emotional
Comment linking /p/reasonably-emotional
on “Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary”Submitted What conspiracy theorists get right (2023) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI would typically apologize for my admittedly rude tone, but I have zero sympathy for anyone in the advertising industry. It is arguably humanity's most evil invention, that has prioritized benefiting the rich and powerful by manipulating and actively harming an unquantifiable amount of people, all the while being normalized and celebrated. I'm unable to accurately put into words how despicable it all is. Though I w…
Comment linking /p/propaganda-is-dangerous-but-not-because
on “Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015)”Submitted Hostile Interpolation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Striking Evidence for Forced Experimentation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gambling with Research Quality as a story · 1 points
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