Researchers are often encouraged to pursue nothing short of revolutionary advances, and those who work in artificial intelligence no exception. However, an exclusive focus on breakthroughs is counterproductive science. As explained by Kuhn almost 50 years ago, dramatic usually rely a foundation less which uncover anomalies make marginal improvements current efforts. Progress relies essential te...

The first wave of behavior therapy countered the excesses and scientific weakness of existing nonempirical clinical traditions through empirically studied first-order change efforts linked to behavioral principles targeting directly relevant clinical targets. The second wave was characterized by similar direct change efforts guided by social learning and cognitive principles that included cogni...

On December 9, 2020, EPA issued a new rule deceptively titled, Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits Costs the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process. The has been widely justly criticized for requiring to publish numerical estimates of regulatory benefits that exclude ancillary “co-benefits.” This short essay endorses critique but argues this (and existing literature about ...