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  "title": "Richie Moluno - blog",
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      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/conditioned-interests-of-young-adults/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/conditioned-interests-of-young-adults/",
      "title": "Conditioned interests",
      "summary": "What's funneling young adults into the same narrow set of interests - algorithms, peer effects, education tracks? And what genuinely different paths are we being steered away from?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "open-question",
        "culture",
        "essay"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/how-do-neurons-learn/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/how-do-neurons-learn/",
      "title": "How do neurons learn?",
      "summary": "How does synaptic plasticity actually work at the biochemistry level - LTP, LTD, Hebbian rules - and do any of those mechanisms transfer to artificial networks?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "open-question",
        "neuroscience",
        "ml"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/inherited-mutations-from-environment/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/inherited-mutations-from-environment/",
      "title": "Can the environment write code into your children?",
      "summary": "Can environmentally-triggered mutations actually reach offspring? Where's the line between germline and somatic, between an epigenetic mark and an inherited disease?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "open-question",
        "biology",
        "epigenetics"
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    },
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      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/language-of-thought-before-words/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/language-of-thought-before-words/",
      "title": "The language of thought, before words",
      "summary": "Before words landed in our minds, what was the language of thought? How did we communicate with ourselves before language gave us an inner voice - and what got lost or gained when speech moved in?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
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        "cognition",
        "language"
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    },
    {
      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/logic-predicated-on-values/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/logic-predicated-on-values/",
      "title": "Is logic predicated on values?",
      "summary": "How and why is logic predicated on values and personality? Two people can share facts and inference rules and still land in different places - what does that say about the parts of 'logic' we mistake for universal?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
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        "open-question",
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        "psychology"
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      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/pain-avoidance-vs-pleasure-seeking/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/pain-avoidance-vs-pleasure-seeking/",
      "title": "Why pain beats pleasure as a motivator",
      "summary": "Why does pain-avoidance pull on us harder than pleasure-seeking? Evolutionary asymmetry, loss aversion, the design of incentives, and culture - what's primary and what's downstream?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "open-question",
        "psychology",
        "motivation"
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    },
    {
      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/piaget-game-of-life-reciprocity/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/piaget-game-of-life-reciprocity/",
      "title": "Piaget's game of life and the substrate of reciprocity",
      "summary": "Reciprocity is the substrate that holds iterated games together. How do Piaget's children at play translate to adult moral reasoning - and what does 'winning' mean once the game isn't zero-sum?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
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        "psychology"
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      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/predicting-brain-response-to-language/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/predicting-brain-response-to-language/",
      "title": "Predicting the brain's response to language",
      "summary": "How can a model predict how the brain reacts to language? What does that say about language being a mostly-predictable signal - and where's the line between reading thoughts and reading correlations?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "open-question",
        "neuroscience",
        "ml"
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      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/psychology-and-subjectivity/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/psychology-and-subjectivity/",
      "title": "Psychology and the cost of subjectivity",
      "summary": "What makes psychology subjective in a way the hard sciences aren't - and what does that subjectivity actually cost (or buy) in how the field gets done?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "open-question",
        "psychology",
        "philosophy"
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      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/verifying-reasoning-in-llms/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/verifying-reasoning-in-llms/",
      "title": "Verifying reasoning in LLMs",
      "summary": "How do you actually verify reasoning in LLMs? Do neuro-symbolic approaches (LTNs, DeepProbLog) give us real proof structure, or just a fancier place to hide hallucinations?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "open-question",
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        "ai"
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    },
    {
      "id": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/within-race-face-recognition/",
      "url": "https://richiemoluno.com/blog/within-race-face-recognition/",
      "title": "What does the brain see in a face?",
      "summary": "How does the brain recognise within-race face similarity even when the distinguishing features aren't obvious? What is holistic face-processing keying on that the rest of us can't put into words?",
      "date_published": "2026-05-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
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        "neuroscience",
        "perception"
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