Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@social.cleverlibre.org

@shannoncurtis @hilljam Mumblecore battlerap album all about honeybee colony collapse, titled Mumblebeez?

@abbynormative I haven't, though it's on my list. Having young kids has drastically decreased my rate of film viewing. Might have to bump it up in the queue.

Our grad group discussed #ChatGPT today, and I argued that it should never be considered an author because it has no agency or accountability. Nor should it. I direct interested parties to
@j2bryson 's evergreen essay "Robots Should Be Slaves" http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/ftp/Bryson-Slaves-Book09.html

New paper with Cody Moser. We use modeling to explore how the network structures that best support innovation are also (1) less efficient per capita, and (2) create more severe inequality of knowledge among individuals. The latter is likely to be linked to other forms of inequality. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/n3hc6

Driving my daughter (3.5) to preschool, “Left Behind” by Slipknot came on the radio. I asked her if she liked it because otherwise we could change it, and she gave me a sly grin and a thumbs up. I found this funny, so texted my wife when I got to the school. When I got home, opened insta to find this. The cookies never sleep.

@garicgymro Did he even have his dom's permission?

Nice blurb on my forthcoming book from UC Merced. https://cogsci.ucmerced.edu/news/2023/want-use-math-and-computers-understand-society-read-prof-smaldinos-new-book

OK, last one I promise.

I'm not gonna toot more about ChatGPT, because I think it's actually a terrifying technology that, much like the terminators, should probably be destroyed. But, also like the terminators, they're fun to watch for a while (until Skynet goes online).

For the die-hard Only Connect fans.

So I started messing around with ChatGPT.

@j2bryson @Prof_BearB @conjugateprior @lauretig @rlmcelreath
It’s not. I don’t really see how CI would work for a purely mathematical model, since the relationships are all spelled out in the equations. No?

@j2bryson Last week I posted my new book cover to both Mastodon and Twitter at the exact same time.
Mastodon: 9 boosts, 36 favorites, 9 comments
Twitter: 362 retweets, 4339 likes, 74 comments
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@jorgeapenas Obviously you’re right, but people may use “obviously” to earnestly signal to the listener that while stating some info is important to their point, they are not assuming the listener doesn’t know it. And obbbbviously the word could never be used sarcastically to, like, signal that something is a commonly-held but wrong belief.