More Than Things

The more things change.

Valuing Money and Things: Why a $20 Item Can Be Worth More and Less Than $20

T study of risky decision making has long used monetary gambles to study choice, but many everyday decisions do not involve the prospect of winning or losing money. Monetary gambles, as it turns out, may be processed and evaluated differently than gambles with nonmonetary outcomes. Whereas monetary gambles involve numeric amounts that can be straightforwardly combined with probabilities to yiel...

More things than are dreamt of in your biology: Information-processing in biologically inspired robots

This paper is concerned with some methodological and philosophical problems related both to the long-term objective of building human-like robots (like those ‘in the movies’) and shortand medium-term objectives of building robots with capabilities of more or less intelligent animals. In particular, we claim that organisms are informationprocessing machines, and thus information-processing conce...

The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: A Comparative Analysis of Budget Punctuations

In this paper, I identify whether shifts within budgets occur and investigate the variation of these shifts. Building on stochastic process methods, I find that budgets in all four cases exhibit mostly incremental changes punctuated by extreme shifts. In order to explain these punctuations in budget distributions, I rely on two models: partisan control of government and partisan distance of the...

More hype than HOPE.

More Hype Than HOPE To the Editor: In the recently published Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE study),1 treatment with the ACE inhibitor ramipril was reported to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality independent of blood pressure (BP) reduction. High-risk “normotensive” (BP 140/80 mm Hg) patients (n 9541) were randomized to receive either 10 mg of ramipril or placebo in additio...