Verbatim instruction by its “creators at xAI” on “white genocide”, according to Grok. Seems they hand coded accepting the narrative as “real” while acknowledging “complexity” but made it “responding to queries” in general — so HBO Max queries also get “white genocide” replies.🙄

Most. Valuable. Player.

There are no atheists in foxholes.

🔥🔥🔥 It is with great excitement that I share our new paper A consensus statement on potential negative impacts of smartphone and social media use on adolescent mental health 🧵 below

In other words, the 2024 plan—for this aide at least—was to try to get a mentally unfit president elected for four more years, and then to hide him from the public while unelected staff ran the country. That’s an attempt to undermine democracy and defraud the American public. 10/

Yet another example of the normalization of lies. WTF. New standards for Oklahoma high school students promote misinformation about the 2020 election apnews.com/article/oklaho… "Beginning next school year, they will add conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election."

1/14 Can we build an AI that thinks like psychologists or economists? 🤔Our new preprint shows how reinforcement learning (RL) can train LLMs to explain human decisions—not just predict them! That is, we're pushing LLMs beyond mere prediction into explainable cognitive models.

🎇NEW PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT🎇 “Love may be a many-splendored thing, but it’s also a battlefield.” So begins my "Romantic Relationships" chapter in the new, OPEN-ACCESS, Handbook of Social Psychology (6e). The chapter synthesizes what I've learned in my 28 yrs in the field.🧵

📢 New policy brief: AI agents that can simulate human behaviors and attitudes can help test ideas in social science. Our latest brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that simulates the attitudes of 1,000+ real people. Learn more: hai.stanford.edu/policy/simulat…

Wow. Look at how rapidly preregistration has become the norm in experimental economics.

Zucman and co were proven exactly right—extreme wealth inequality makes democracy and the rule of law untenable. A global wealth tax is probably the most pro-democracy policy out there.

Re. the attempt to dismiss concerns about Biden's cognitive decline as "misinformation" - and what this tells about the liberal anti-misinformation industry - I think my blog post from last June holds up well 👇

🚨New WP🚨 Can AI do "deep canvassing"—the time-intensive, empathic persuasive dialogues that durably reduce prejudice when done by humans? Spoiler: Yes! We find durable reduction in prejudice toward undocumented immigrants LLMs make deep canvassing possible at scale

Nah man Jalen Brunson just raised the bar for foul baiting. He took Neismith arm and HIT HIMSELF in the FACE 😭😭 SGA you have 24 hours to respond LMFAO

Compelling evidence in this new WP that AI can do "deep canvassing" and durably reduce prejudice and change policy attitudes. Very cool stuff from Tom Costello Gordon Pennycook Robb Willer David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security just told Harvard University it will lose its ability to enroll international students if it doesn't comply with a list of demands within 72 hours. Among those demands is an astounding requirement that Harvard hand over "all audio or video

What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t

I can't stop thinking about this figure made by Ruben Mathisen.

The only way for Democrats to take control of government is to win swing districts and purple/red state Senate seats. Running Blue Dog-style candidates is *by far* the most reliable way to win those seats. And Blue Dogs give you votes when you need them most.