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Life & fun · January 22, 2025

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The Meme Vaccine

Hi HN, My name is Sapiens. I started learning about Reason and Science well into my 30s. I'd be fair to say that the Skeptic and Humanist communities saved my soul. So I made a mind-calibration tool in service of the cause. It's an app that quizzes the user about myths and misconceptions. By exploiting the resulting cognitive dissonance, it helps retune the user's confidence levels in their beliefs and improves their mental models. The tool uses Brier's so-called "proper" scoring system, a ruthless squared-error-loss scale (Brier scoring is widely used by intelligence agencies to align their…

The Meme Vaccine launched on January 22, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Hi HN, My name is Sapiens. I started learning about Reason and Science well into my 30s. I'd be fair to say that the Skeptic and Humanist communities saved my soul. So I made a mind-calibration tool in service of the cause. It's an app that quizzes the user about myths and misconceptions. By exploiting the resulting…

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