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.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising
Evolution of Similarity-Biased Social Learning.
New preprint with Alejandro Perez Velilla. A long time in the making. Feedback welcome!
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j7yas
Evolution of Similarity-Biased Social Learning.
New preprint with Alejandro Perez Velilla. A long time in the making. Feedback welcome!
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j7yas
Lovely review of my book from Mirta Galesic/SFI
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Identity and Politics at IAST/Toulouse, May 15-16. Looking forward to this.
https://www.iast.fr/interdisciplinary-workshop-identity-and-politics
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Identity and Politics at IAST/Toulouse, May 15-16. Looking forward to this.
https://www.iast.fr/interdisciplinary-workshop-identity-and-politics
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.
@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.
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.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/3tz2r
I really enjoyed this conversation on the Converging Dialogues podcast talking about Modeling Social Behavior, models, theory, and the future of social science. https://convergingdialogues.substack.com/p/302-modeling-social-behavior-a-dialogue
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.
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
https://qoto.org/@psmaldino/111171399866457633
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: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior
AMZN: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20
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." https://shepherd.com/best-books/behavior-that-reward-working-through-the-math
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). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ_dfzaDE&ab_channel=TheWell
This is lovely, if you can access BBC radio - Sarah Hrdy on the Life Scientific. A reminder of how important her work is to the evolutionary behavioural sciences, & also how recent was virulent sexism (she once didn't get a job because she was married...)
New paper out in Phil Trans B with Karolina Safarzynska. Simple model of a group-structured public good with externalities shifting benefits toward more inequality or more equity. Only redistributional externalities increase cooperation. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0267
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Curmudgeon. Faculty at UC Merced and Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Bluesky: @psmaldino.bsky.social