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I have a goal (not my only one): It's to follow all of the junior social scientists that are on Twitter. Who am I missing? (Please self-nominate!)
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Watching an old Twilight Zone episode where a man becomes obsessed with a devil machine coin fortune teller. The machine gives generic answers but he becomes paralyzed, unable to make a decision without consulting it. Anyway, some of these episodes are a bit farfetched.
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I am hiring a postdoc to work on a project on moral disgust. This person ideally has expertise in moral psychology, emotions, and/or evolutionary psychology. More details here workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po….
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The AI agents were programmed to discover other AI agents and switch to ggwave language which isn’t secret. Anyone can decode ggwave with tools like this: waver.ggerganov.com Boris Starkov posted a Q&A on LinkedIn explaining and demystifying this project: linkedin.com/posts/boris-sta…
Three separate AI agents discover they’re all AI—then switch to a secret language on their own.
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A colleague and brilliant scholar @PsychSengupta is being subjected to vile racist attacks in the last 48h while @ESRC chair hasn’t responded to this with anything of substance. Hugely disappointing
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Name a bigger lie. I'll wait.
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🧵 I finished reading Thibault Le Texier's book, Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie. This is the most thorough treatment of the real history behind the Stanford Prison Experiment. Buckle up for a doozy of a thread! ⬇️👇
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AIs are frustrating because they invert the normal dynamic of using a computer, where the human is sloppy and the computer is exact. With AI, the computer is the one always making goofy mistakes, and it's up to the we the humans to catch them.
I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs. I use GPT, Grok, Gemini, Mistral etc every day in the hope they'll save me time searching for information and summarizing it. They continue to fabricate links, references, and quotes, like they did from day one. I ask them to give me a source for an alleged quote, I click on the link, it returns a 404 error. I Google for the alleged quote, it doesn't exist. They reference a scientific publication, I look it up, it doesn't exist. Happens all the time. Yes, it has gotten somewhat better in the past 2 years in that with DeepSearch and chains of thought about 50-60% or so of the references exist. By my personal estimate currently GPT 4o DeepResearch is the best one. Grok in particular often doesn't include references even if asked. It can't seem to link even to tweets. It's hugely frustrating. Yes, I have tried Gemini, and actually it was even worse in that it frequently refuses to even search for a source and instead gives me instructions for how to do it myself. Stopped using it for that reason. I also use them for quick estimates for orders of magnitude and they get them wrong all the time. One thing they do save me time with is unit conversion and collecting all kinds of constants. You'd think though that this shouldn't take a 100 million++ LLM to get done. Yesterday I uploaded a paper to GPT to ask it to write a summary and it told me the paper is from 2023, when the header of the PDF clearly says it's from 2025. I don't even know what the heck is going on there, but intelligence ain't it. I sense that a lot of people now think knowledge graphs will fix the LLM-issue, but no, they will not. They cannot. Even in the case that knowledge graphs would prevent logical inconsistency 100%, there are a lot of text-constructions that are perfectly logically consistent but have zero relation to reality. Companies will keep pumping up LLMs until the day a newcomer puts forward a different type of AI model that will swiftly outperform them. On that day, it will become apparent that a lot of companies have been hugely overvalued. It will be a very bad day for the stock market.
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There is exactly one generation that can rotate a pdf and there will never be another. The knowledge dies with us.
holy heck i'm training a zoomer kid to use the computer at work and it's exactly like training a boomer
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A real life community note is crazy
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is there a specific post that you still think about
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I like this idea by @tylercowen. (Of course, we could have started doing this well before AI arrived, e.g. with newspapers…)
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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
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"He violated the work safety rules" Soviet poster, 1988.
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Notice the strange "of Turkish origin" qualifier here. Why put that unnecessary detail in the headline if not to poison the well and suggest that it is not as significant as if Israel killed a "real American"?
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US "serious" media: "racially tinged," "unprecedented proposal," "bold claim" UK tabloid media:
Thursday’s front page: I’ll tell ALL I know about the little green men #TomorrowsPapersToday dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news…
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We are hiring a PhD student at the @UvA_Amsterdam to study how culture shapes gender differences in emotion expression. If you know someone, please send them this: tinyurl.com/bdekcppz
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Postdoc opportunity to work with me in the UK! We're looking for a PhD (submitted or awarded) to work on a social psychology grant for 2 years, investigating the moral role of heroes. See the job ad here (jobs.ac.uk/job/DJH266/resear…) and pass it on- deadline 18 Sep!
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Following the targeting of a building on campus by the far-right recently, the UCU is hosting a vigil on campus, regardless of union membership or position. The UCU stands in unity with our community to reject racism, Islamophobia, anti-immigration, and far-right hate.
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