You come home late to find the lights off. In the dark hallway there is a very large raccoon. You yell at it, but it turns out that it is just a little guy in your hallway.
Then you see the door to your kitchen open and close again and hear your mom coming up the stairs to find out why you are yelling. There is a huge raccoon inside your house, and your mom is going to tell you to kill it.
Note that while many SF authors, including Ray Bradbury, Issac Asimov, and even Arthur C. Clarke have confirmed and even retold the story on occasion, both Ellison and some of his staunchest supporters - including Tom Galloway - have vehemently denied the incident took place, and in recent years Ellison refuses to discuss the matter, much less any issues regarding jelly beans.
“If I want your name, I’ll call you by name,” he continued. “I don’t give a damn what’s in this box. But I want to know why my name’s in your head and not here!” He tapped his forehead. “I’m not going to let some old fart box my name with a pair of scissors! Not for nothing! You know that!”
Arthur C. Clarke (interview by Michael W. Clune from 2000)
(N.B.: I’m not sure how representative my collection of dril tweets is of the dril canon, but I wanted to include them anyway)
Loss aversion:
Hyperbolic discounting:
Tit for tat:
Laziness:
The bystander effect:
Fundamental attribution error:
I found a few more, mostly in that first section
Confirmation bias:
Overconfidence:
Self-serving bias:
Scope insensitivity:
Conspiracy theory:
Apriorism:
Anthropomorphization:
Equity bias:
Framing effects:
Reaction time and speed-accuracy tradeoffs:
Base rate bias:
The conjunction fallacy:
Disjunction bias:
Trolley problem:
Trolley problem / Three-boxing:
Bounded rationality:
Rationality, meta-rationality, and the law of small numbers
Peak-end rule:
Gambler’s ruin:
The Kelly criterion:
Efficiency of capital allocation:
Killing:
Death as a solution:
Probability:
Self-concept:
(A few of the posts above were part of a joke thread which I did not include in the post above)
The law of large numbers:
Transhumanism:
The dutch book argument:
The prisoner’s dilemma:
The fact that “the only ethical way to cut down a tree is with a chainsaw” got a retweet and all the other replies got liked is evidence in favor of some kind of equivocation by the OP
I’m sure you’ll agree that the very concept of a “dog” is an oxymoron. Dogs are the very embodiment of all that is good, all that is kind, all that is holy; and this applies equally to the entire species. But all is not lost; there is hope, a light at the end of the tunnel called dog.
