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Dan Gillmor

As warned, Reddit has taken a bundle of money from "Open"AI and will use it to further monetize what you -- and the volunteers who moderate it all -- contributed for free.

It's the norm now, and particularly slimy in this case.

theverge.com/2024/5/16/2415852

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Paul Smaldino

Evolution of Similarity-Biased Social Learning.

New preprint with Alejandro Perez Velilla. A long time in the making. Feedback welcome!
osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j7ya

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Paul Smaldino

Evolution of Similarity-Biased Social Learning.

New preprint with Alejandro Perez Velilla. A long time in the making. Feedback welcome!
osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j7ya

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Paul Smaldino

Lovely review of my book from Mirta Galesic/SFI

santafe.edu/news-center/news/n

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Paul Smaldino

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Identity and Politics at IAST/Toulouse, May 15-16. Looking forward to this.

iast.fr/interdisciplinary-work

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Paul Smaldino

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Identity and Politics at IAST/Toulouse, May 15-16. Looking forward to this.

iast.fr/interdisciplinary-work

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Paul Smaldino

Re: recent SCOTUS decision on Trump's immunity, most folks are (prob correctly) focused on it as a delay strategy, assuming they will ultimately uphold the lower court's decision. 🤞 If they don't, seems like a clear signal that right-wing coalitions are committed to going all-in on authoritarianism.

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@ct_bergstrom The harmonies are excellent. Kudos.

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Robotistry

@futurebird @stveje
NOT looking for suggestions.

Bemoaning the fact that on the iPad

1. You can't search for "no in-app purchases, pay up front, no ads, do not collect personal data" apps

2. There is no way to find the good apps without wading through a morass of terrible apps

3. Developer payment options are primarily: gather user's data and sell it; charge rent; ads / protection racket

Almost no apps operate on a "pay me to own the thing as is" basis.

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Paul Smaldino

New draft of a modeling paper I really love, by me and Zack Dunivin. "Dynamics of covert signaling: Modeling the emergence and extinction of identity signals."

Methods! We got coupled differential equations, agent-based modeling, random forest classifiers.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/3tz2

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.

“Grandpa, if everyone knew what was causing climate change and how to stop it, why didn’t you?”

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Paul Smaldino

I really enjoyed this conversation on the Converging Dialogues podcast talking about Modeling Social Behavior, models, theory, and the future of social science. convergingdialogues.substack.c

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@lakens this is one of the main ideas I associate with Popper — it’s all over his book Objective Knowledge IIRC

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Steven Strogatz

The third edition of my textbook, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, was published today. You can preview the first 68 pages on Google Books, or take a look at the preface below to see what's new. The main new thing is a chapter on the Kuramoto model! Hope you enjoy it.

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Paul Smaldino

@abbynormative @sabrinaschalz@fediscience.org @academicchatter I'm pretty overloaded right now, but if they're really in a pinch I could be persuaded. More appropriate though might be more solidly "animal behavior" folks like @Eliz_Hobson @damienfarine Albert Kao, Jeff Schank, Hanna Kokko, Kevin Ringelman

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Elio Campitelli

There's not enough "fuck you"s in the world to react to this shit. #LLMs should be tools used in the service of people; what in the world is this proposal to make people work for LLMs?!

Any and all changes to scientific publishing needs to be for so that other **people** can access them and understand them.

And the single most important change would be for Nature and other publishers not to charge 29.99 USD for a shitty 4-paragraph essay that they didn't pay for themselves.

#AcademicChatter

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Paul Smaldino

I totally slept on the fact that today was my book’s UK (and EU?) release date! It should be available worldwide now. Get your snarky advice about modeling right here!

From: @psmaldino
qoto.org/@psmaldino/1111713998

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Paul Smaldino

Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.

PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/pape

AMZN: amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=i

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Paul Smaldino

I got asked to make a list of five books I like that are connected thematically with my own book. I like talking about books, so I did. Here's "The best books about (human) behavior that reward working through the math." shepherd.com/best-books/behavi

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Paul Smaldino

Neat documentary about SFI. Around 16:30 you can see a workshop I ran in May sitting in the atrium (I am behind some other people and not visible, though you can see my hat peaking out). youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ_dfzaD

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