un pleas

• Imprisoned by imprint: When an image/perception/story takes over the whole identity of a thing — cutting it away from its past and (strongly) limiting its path for future development. Examples: (1) The liberal image of Amsterdam transformed the city center into a pilgrimage place for people who want to smoke weed, take psychedelics and look at sex-workers. The historical roots of the city are only visible for those who seek them, and future developments of the city are pushed to the outskirts. (2) When a young prodigy gets lauded too early and devotes the rest of his life to the cause he originally got his claim to fame for.
• Experimental hollowness: When it becomes unclear if a benchmarking study, an empirical experiment or a simulation study contributes anything other than an improvement with regard to an under-specified metric (and perhaps even introduces with regard to some other relevant metrics).
• Empirical dead end: When a theory does not admit any (more) experiments that can lead to its refutation or advancement. Experimental hollowness (see above) is one indicator of an empirical dead end. It can, however, also be a result from the theory as such, see for example the arguments that Sabine Hossenfelder provides in her book Lost in Math.
• Winner’s forgetfulness: Winning induces forgetfulness. Winners always forget faster than losers. They also often tend to spin events post-hoc in ways that make things look either rational, unavoidable or in a different light—and then believe in it!
• Understanding-induced naivety: Understanding, or better superficial understanding, gives the illusion of control/predictability/manageability.
• Naive Atheism: I guess Richard Dawkins & Co.