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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Automatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication.

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  But passing an automatic filter is not a substitute for community acceptance; I do not believe that human referees can be removed from the publication process.

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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  Social competence has to run automatically, because doing it deliberately imposes a cognitive load that becomes an impediment in itself.

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  you need to somehow internalize it and it has to be relatively effortless and automatic. It has to become automatic at some level and then you can move through life fairly smoothly in a socially very complex way.

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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  A habit is best understood as a recurring solution to a recurring problem in a person's environment.

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  The one one that I like is that a habit is a recurring solution to a recurring problem in your environment. So something comes up again and again and your brain is trying to solve it. Another way to describe it is that it's like an automatic or a mindless behavior.

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Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.

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  NATO's Article 5 carries no automatic obligation to fight, and it is still the gold standard for a security guarantee.

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  Despite its lack of automaticity this remains the gold standard for security guarantees.

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Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.

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  Betterment

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  With Betterment, you still end up holding mostly Vanguard index funds, but they handle automatic rebalancing and minimizing your tax costs. I'm very happy with the service.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.

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  So even though women’s economic advancement did displace some men, and triggered some private hostility, it was never actually catapulted into social antagonism. This is primarily because it was never leveraged by political entrepreneurs!

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Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  Memory athletes were not born with extraordinary memories; they practise a handful of strategies until deploying one is automatic.

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  By all accounts, from people who become memory athletes, they weren’t born with some extraordinary memory, but they practice strategies over and over and over again. The strategy that they use for memorizing a particular thing, it can become automatic, and you can just deploy it in an instant.

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