Letting every banned user back without safeguards could be horrible for all. A study of 1.8 billion Reddit comments shows 0.1% of all communities generate 38% of attacks & 1% accounts for 74%! A few big trolls initiate those conflicts, driving away users. arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03697…

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Contrary to other domains, in 12 best-selling fiction authors of XX century, the proportion of negative emotions seems to have *decreased* in the second half of last century.

ChatGPT is like a query engine on a giant corpus of text ryxcommar.com/2023/03/28/cha…

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1. In evolutionary psychology (EP), what is genetically coded? * Behavior? No * Psychological mechanisms or modules? No * Developmental programs? Yes! A brief tweetorial 🧵

If motivations to share misinformation - or anything - are mostly goal-oriented (as opposed to accuracy-oriented), interventions like fact-checking or "inoculation" should have a very limited effect out of the lab.

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There's this _really_ cool trick that you can do with LLMs that I felt was underappreciated so I figured I'd write a blogpost about it. In short: you can compare it with an existing pipeline to find examples to annotate next. koaning.io/posts/large-di…

Ok, so LLMs are a Thing. How do they work? Embeddings. WTF are embeddings? I spent a year doing a deep dive. But when I was researching, I couldn't find anything that explained them in business, engineering, AND math contexts. So I wrote a thing.🚀 vickiboykis.com/what_are_embed…

🚨 New working paper: How good are people at judging the veracity of news? Our finding: People can tell true from false news. 🤓 But when they err, they are slightly more skeptical towards true news than they are gullible towards fake news. (1/14) osf.io/n9h4y/ 🧵

Science is great but academia not so much. Earlier this week I revised my talk "Science as Amateur Software Development". The unprofessional way that academics curate & process data would benefit from professional habits of software engineers and chefs: youtube.com/watch?v=8qzVV7…

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Yes I will offer my online science-focused Statistical Rethinking course again starting in January 2024. Registration going up at the end of this month. All the course materials are already online though, so why wait? Update your posterior today youtube.com/watch?v=FdnMWd…

Excellent, I highly recommend Dan’s new Substack. Several of my recent posts have been influenced by his work. You can expect a sharp and insightful perspective on human social interactions.

I spoke about the origins and evolution of my book/course, open science and science reform, and once mentioned the phrase "dungeon master"

I have viewed maybe 200,000 historical photos from the 1800's to today, across all kinds of archives. The neoteny effect is very real and began probably around the 1920s for some people. Interestingly historical men resemble modern men more (vs women) in a lot of ways.