If anyone’s curious about what the “theory of the mind” guy was saying, there’s a thread about this on Shtetl-Optimized, which goes into some detail and references stuff I hadn’t looked into
In a nutshell, Shalizi believes that the “theory of the mind” has basically been proved wrong (the way it is usually presented is not true; he’d know better than I do, though), and that it’s an old and misleading concept, one that is only tenuously related to anything people tend to do in social situations.







