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	<title>Civic Studies &#187; Joshua Miller</title>
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		<title>Touchstone Terms: Adverse Selection</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2026/03/14/touchstone-terms-adverse-selection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Ackerloff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there were a single concept from economics I'd like to see more widely understood, it would be adverse selection: the tendency for markets to sort participants into worse and worse pools when one side of a transaction knows more than the other. The idea originates in a 1970 paper by George Akerlof, "The Market... <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2026/03/14/touchstone-terms-adverse-selection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Replacing Theology with Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asian philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We think about our moral lives in a framework held over from medieval Christianity, and if we reject those assumptions then we need a new framework. <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2026/03/06/the-problem-with-replacing-theology-with-psychology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How I Built an AI Development Editor (And What I Learned About Writing Along the Way)</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2026/03/03/how-i-built-an-ai-development-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AI Writing Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developmental Editing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LLMs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Craft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I tested whether AI could approximate a developmental editor, built a tool called Apodictic, and learned surprising lessons about writing craft, reader contract, and the real limits of large language models. <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2026/03/03/how-i-built-an-ai-development-editor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>First-Person Pronouns Matter Too</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/11/06/first-person-pronouns-matter-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Peter Levine wrote recently about how much of the public unease about AI consciousness comes from something surprisingly mundane: the interface says &#8220;I.&#8221; When Google&#8217;s Gemini delivers information in the third person, it&#8217;s just a tool; when ChatGPT says &#8220;I can help you,&#8221; some users start composing rescue missions for the trapped digital... <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/11/06/first-person-pronouns-matter-too/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Groups, Messaging, and Politics</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/10/08/the-groups-messaging-and-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently context is scarce. Here's some: "Democratic party politics is urban machine politics, scaled up" from Noah Smith A variety of activists and special interests &#8212; collectively known as &#8220;The Groups&#8221; &#8212; can basically persuade Democratic staffers and politicians of their ideas in the proverbial smoke-filled rooms, well out of the public eye. Democrats&#8217; focus... <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/10/08/the-groups-messaging-and-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Say What You Mean</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/10/06/say-what-you-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After getting the same Vera Institute of Justice messaging presentation twice on Friday, I've been thinking about what messaging consultants are actually trying to do.The average messaging summit is a triangulation between three things:* What the consultants' funders want* What their pollsters tell them voters like* What the audience of candidates, staffers, and pundits needs... <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/10/06/say-what-you-mean/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drowning in the River Parable: Our Favorite Public Health Story is a Noble Lie</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/07/18/drowning-in-the-river-parable-our-favorite-public-health-story-is-a-noble-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people know the story: Tom and Joe are fishing on a boat in the middle of the river, when they spot a baby floating past. Joe tosses his pole and jumps into the water to save the child, and Tom helps him back into the boat, checking on the infant. They&#8217;re rowing back to... <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/07/18/drowning-in-the-river-parable-our-favorite-public-health-story-is-a-noble-lie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Relativism</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/01/24/pragmatism-pluralism-and-relativism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Believing What's True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epistemic Institutional Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friendly Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It'd be nice if the folks who don't believe in global warming weren't polluting the same world as the folks who do, but the tragedy of existence is that we must share one world. No one sane and good is ever a relativist or a pragmatist about criminal guilt or ignorance, about child abuse and the Satanic panic, or about vaccines. Relativism is always reserved for some other stuff that&#8217;s off to the side, like whether a particular artwork is beautiful. <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2025/01/24/pragmatism-pluralism-and-relativism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flaubert’s “Be Regular and Ordinary” Quote</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2024/09/18/flauberts-be-regular-and-ordinary-quote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The internet can sometimes disappoint you, but sometimes it can be so very, very satisfying. When you're quote-hunting these days, it's usually just a disappointment. For instance: I have long loved a quotation from Gustave Flaubert that is translated as follows: "Be regular and ordinary in your life, so you can be violent and original... <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2024/09/18/flauberts-be-regular-and-ordinary-quote/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Semantic Insatiability and Logophilic Etymologies</title>
		<link>https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2024/02/28/semantic-insatiability-and-logophilic-etymologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Miller]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sapir-Whorf]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wine-dark sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the opposite of semantic satiation? <a href="https://www.anotherpanacea.com/2024/02/28/semantic-insatiability-and-logophilic-etymologies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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