Cannot stop watching these videos of euphoria 🥹

Chasing academic success does feel like this sometimes

Finally, Hungary we will be sovereign, not a vassal of Russia

Historic night in Budapest 🥲
#Hungaryelects

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The past month has gone by very fast, with a major scandal in the media almost every day. The last few hours feel incredibly slow. #Hungaryelects

🇭🇺 Hungarian elections
Voter turnout stands at 66.01% as of 3:00 p.m. It is huge. The previous turnout record was set in 2002, during the second round of the then-two-round electoral system, when 53.59% of voters had cast their ballots by 3:00 p.m.

The Surfer and the Waves Ábel Bede discusses the reasons behind the rise of Péter Magyar, with reports from Tisza rallies in County Békés and County Pest.

There's been lots of coverage of the elections in the international media in recent days. For something different, I recommend this from Ábel Bede, on the rise of Péter Magyar, the expected winner today

hungarianobserver.substack.com/p/the-surfer...

| hvg.hu HVG – Hiteles hírek és elemzések gazdaságról, politikáról, kultúráról és életmódról, Magyarország vezető portálján.

Top of hvg.hu also shows comparisons from 2022 per constituency

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

One of my favorites paper got published 🤓 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :)

🔓 osf.io/preprints/ps...
👉 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Can't wait to submit my thesis, "Witty catchphrase: Length-enhanced superlative verbiage of obscure topic"! It took just under half a decade of my life.

Figure from the paper. How does social reasoning enable efficient intelligence? 1. Directs us to the information that is most important for learning. 2. Inferences about others' minds help us interpret information they provide (and provide better information for others). 3. Avoids some of the costs of direct learning like cognitive/physical effort, and negative outcomes. 4. Enables us to build on and refine the knowledge of others. 5. Provides cues that help us infer which agents' knowledge we should build on without needing to observe their behaviour directly.

Humans have a remarkable capacity for efficient, intelligent reasoning. In a new working paper, @perfors.net and I discuss how our ability to reason from *social* information is one way that we achieve this capacity. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I worry about what Part 2 brings 😳

LLMs are imputation machines. They pull patterns from text data; Useful for things like coding, especially coding that has been done before.

Academics work in knowledge generation, which goes far beyond imputation. If you think LLMs can replace grad students, you are telling on yourself.

This tweet, from Suno’s lead investor, will surely be used in court one day.

She says she has shifted her listening from Spotify to Suno. *This is a direct admission that Suno competes with the music it trains on.*

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Institutions are how we scale up cooperation among millions | Aeon Essays Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. How do they work?

Institutions are the social technologies that power our world, allowing us to rely on complete strangers every day of our lives. But how do we ensure that this trust isn’t misplaced? In this Essay, the game theorist Julien Lie-Panis explores what makes institutions function @jliep.bsky.social

The Social Lives of Our Ancestors | Manvir Singh YouTube video by The Cognitations Podcast

🎙️ EP #19

Think our ancestors lived in a state of "primitive communism"? New research reveals our deep past was far more complex than the "noble savage" myth suggests.

@adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this & much more with @manvir.bsky.social

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[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

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No question, this is the most original paper I have ever written

It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading

Thread coming soon!

Huh! So in Finnish it’s ‘on Helsinki’ but ‘in Stockholm’?

Happy World Linguistics Day from Budapest, capital of a peculiar linguistic phenomenon--the Hungarian language!

Thrilled to teach again this year, on the evolution of social cognition, at the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences! Apply before December 15th 👇

Brochure: lnkd.in/e_R7cQTP
Application: lnkd.in/eey-fEJ

Are these the happiest PhD students in the world? Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?

Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey. A Nature Careers article examines what makes earning a doctorate in these countries different. #Academicsky 🧪

Sometimes my devices misunderstand my (arguably not so heavy) Hungarian accent and Siri activates when I say "see..." but it never activates in the rare occasions when I do intend to use Siri. Which is for entertainment purposes, not timers. Siri is quite good at telling dad jokes.

Language and Communication with Thom Scott-Phillips YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)

This week, Language and Communication (and the Lindy Hop) with @thomscottphillips.bsky.social!

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I've been wondering about this myself too, also more broadly in the context of any intellectual property (eg artistic outputs). Afaik the law in general places more weight on completed & published outputs than to initiated but unfinished ones. Not sure if lay intuitions overlap though.

Who owns new creations? with @jfkominsky.bsky.social & @heintz-c.bsky.social is out in #cogsci2025 proceedings!

escholarship.org/content/qt4m...

Read the full paper here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 4/4

We find evidence for a model where cues and commonly known norms trigger different readings of ownership & moral judgements via mental state attribution. Also, moral judgements don't correlate with ownership judgements 100% ("he *owns* it but it is wrong"). 3/4