1/n Propaganda doesn't just relate to attitudes, it also relates to how people make sense of events.
We looked at how Russians construed the war in Ukraine in terms of core values, and how these meanings associate with media exposure and intentions to support/oppose the war.
#Ukraine #UkraineWar
We need to figure out how to fund the social sciences with private money.
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold. www.wired.com/story/world-...
Will the folks contributing open source still be as careful when writing using AI? One of the successes of open source has been that most packages are reliable.
There’s skill in app design even if you’re just describing it with a vibe language. For enterprise apps, there’s a ton of institutional knowledge required. Will folks want to learn those things? Vibe coding will be great for trivial apps, though.
Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty — across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Or a person could record their vibe session and replay it with a different AI. I think there’s a reasonable chance that AI provision becomes a commodity. Open source AI models can already do useful things on generally available hardware. You just have to be patient.
There’s no intrinsic value AND it’s effectively a commodity because there are so many other currencies available. There’s no monetary policy to stabilize it. So why shouldn’t we expect it to float around? The sudden drop could be just an information cascade following a moderate decline.
Transparency is the key for election integrity. I’m not sure that’s compatible with our national security institutions.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Embedded text reads: We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties. James Monroe U.S. President 1817-1925
Presidents used to say eloquent things. Inspiring even.
Trials are needed. Legit ones. For leaders and agents. Otherwise, future authoritarians won’t perceive the personal risk of obviously immoral actions.
Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Justice requires trials. Not just leaving MN, and not just funding changes. Trials for both agents and also for leaders who provoked and lied.
The big issue with AI is that it doesn’t share human values. It will value whatever you ask it to value. Most work involves the values that professionals learn as part of the professional community.
Very interesting research. Reminds me of the trade off studied by the Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation between structural visualization and abstract reasoning. Do some people see the car because they think structurally, and others see the strawberry because they think abstractly?
We don’t know yet which applications are going to be broadly useful. I think it’s still possible that smaller, cheaper LLMs will end up being the most useful. Both the business cases and the bro-talk are based on magical and wishful thinking right now.
Most also don’t get to pick where they live. They go to the team that drafted them.
Anytime a meaningful counterfactual is utilized is a step forward. There are better and worse ones, but the contrast illustrates something valuable.
I think the "politician issue positions are decisive in elections" crowd needs to reconcile their beliefs with political science evidence finding that positions are mostly downstream of party ID and elite opinion leadership www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The ROI on biking infrastructure is clear. USA cities pay attention.
Congrats on the pub in Science. It’s a big honkin’ deal. You’re going to get a lot of attention, and that’s mostly good.
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Agree that rational goal seeking is as much used as habit. Another form of choice behavior is reflex. The autonomic nervous system doesn’t give us time to rationally goal seek or engage habitual decision making but it does make quick decisions.
Death Star
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
