Reasonable People
Tom StaffordPsychological science on rationality, reason and persuasion
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 118 | Founded | 7 years ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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Gradually, then all at once
Last week, Laura Loomer admitted she was wrong about Ukraine. Loomer is an internet personality, a Trump outrider “with a reputation for incendiary social media commentary” (AP News), a “far-right conspiracy-theorist influencer” (Le Monde)....
Predicting human behaviour
I listened to a great talk by Dokyun Lee (‘Scylla Ex Machina: The Illusion of LLMs as Human Surrogates’). The ‘human surrogates’ are models which have been suggested by both researchers and businesses as a possible shortcut to making predic...
Social thinking
It’s embarrassing to realise mid-sentence that you don’t understand what you’re talking about.
If you have any self-awareness, I’m sure you can recall a time it has happened to you. If you have better luck than me then it hasn’t been at th...
Striking evidence for forced experimentation
February the 5th, 2014 was a typical 7 - 10 degrees Celsius in London, and rainy. That morning, as they did every weekday morning, millions of commuters woke up and got ready to travel to their places of work in the UK capital. Normally man...
Another algorithm is possible
We all know that social media drives people crazy, but how much of that is because, en masse, other people are infuriating, and how much is because the social media companies design the platform to surface the most infuriating content?
Sin...
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