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Stephen Hill@srhastraea.bsky.social |
308 followers 399 following 166 posts
Cognitive psych interested in distributed cognition, memory, weird and non-weird beliefs, misinformation, scientific vs lay cognition, climate change, open science, metascience, 4eCognition.
#psychscisky
Also at @SRHAstraea@mastodon.nz
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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"Subjects fared significantly better across a wide battery of cognitive measures once they no longer had the full weight of a stronger person’s bicep choking off their air supply."
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EUROPE SAYS
@europesays.bsky.social
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New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages. Experts say the new figures dispel the notion that the country is protected from extreme temperatures and raise fears for local marine life
www.europesays.com/1334892/
New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit …
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Shaun Hendy
@hendysh.bsky.social
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My thoughts on @siouxsiew.bsky.social v the University of Auckland. The judgment, which finds in favour of Siouxsie, strengthens academic freedom in New Zealand, but highlights problems with Auckland's management that its VC seems reluctant to accept. thespinoff.co.nz/society/10-0...
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明
@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social
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Ah haha oh god, VUW English Department is closing its Facebook page because Meta AI is automatically responding to comments there like it is the actual English Department. I don't actually know how this is not illegal.
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Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara
@taipo.bsky.social
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“Siouxsie Wiles: Auckland University ordered to pay $20,000 in Employment Court decision” www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/siouxsie-...
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Andrew
@openpolicy.bsky.social
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The Lancet has just published this article ‘conservatively’ estimating the death toll in #Gaza is no where near the 38,000 estimated by local authorities.
The article estimates the number of children, women and men killed in the #genocide is closer to 186,000.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Public Health Communication Centre
@phcc.bsky.social
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The government’s proposal to increase speed limits will lead to more deaths and serious injuries on our roads. Why govt's move defies the science.
www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/inc...
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Willem Huiskamp
@willemh.bsky.social
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Carbon footprints among different income deciles in Germany are pretty similar.... until you look at transport. Once again, a very strong argument for a frequent fliers tax.
www.diw.de/documents/pu...
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Caleb Moses
@mathematiguy.bsky.social
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Since starting my PhD I’ve really toned down the enthusiasm for machine learning and AI. Basically if there’s a thing whose premise is “AI is a big deal and gonna change the world and you should all pay attention”, you’ll most likely not see me there.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
@needhibhalla.bsky.social
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"The scientist who evaluates manuscripts regularly, re-analyzes data, and provides thoughtful and extensive feedback is as much a protector and promoter of original science as the one who exclusively publishes manuscripts on their own." -@cbo.bsky.social 🧪
undark.org/2024/07/04/o...
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Byron C Clark
@byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes
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Sander van der Linden
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social
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Academic freedom is in peril
@katestarbird.bsky.social exposes the disingenuous attacks on misinformation research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rebecca Mosher
@rm0sher.bsky.social
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This is so important. I stress to new grad students that they are no longer learning facts. They are now learning *how* we know facts to be true (controls, etc) and generating new facts. ‼️Critical thinking and discovery are exactly what AI cannot do. ‼️
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Jolisa Gracewood
@nzdodo.bsky.social
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In great news: heroic scenes at Auckland Council, with a near-unanimous pushback against this indefensible government overreach on local streets. 🙌 Including a strengthened response on safe speeds around schools (carried by a casting vote!). Very very grateful for the integrity on display today. 🙏🥰
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
@toadsanime.bsky.social
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Nintendo says it will not use generative-AI, preferring to create stuff that is "unique to" them and to avoid copyrighted material used by gen-AI:
gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/03/n...
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Mike Dickison
@adzebill.bsky.social
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Let’s start a petition to replace Judith Collins with ChatGPT, the environmental costs would be outweighed by the mediocre but harmless results. youtu.be/TtVJ4JDM7eM?...
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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"Collins... says the technology could also be used for government productivity gains, including processing Official Information Act requests." #FFS www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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Folks: a reminder -> Google frequently cite this "research" that claims a 5-10% global (global!!!!) decrease in emissions thanks to "AI"
www.greenbiz.com/article/goog...
I clicked through all the references and what lies at the bottom is *very bad* -->>
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-rea...
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Luke Pembleton
@lwpembleton.bsky.social
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Do you use boxplots in your #rstats work? Check out this great read about why box plots might not be the best approach.
#DataVisualisation
nightingaledvs.com/ive-stopped-...
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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companies and firms do not implement AI products to make work easier, better, or more enjoyable for the average worker but to cut labour costs and reduce staff
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
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Mike Dickison
@adzebill.bsky.social
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Nooo, AI is bullshit and Collins is deluded and incompetent, but don’t quote the doomsaying AI techbros! They’re equally full of crap! Maybe just point out to at AI can’t teach maths because it doesn’t understand maths and can’t add up properly. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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The USA is falling behind Russia. We need to defrost even older wolves
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Iris van Rooij
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
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Why is 'artificial intelligence' not called 'cognitive automation'?
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Chris Larsen
@chrislarsen.bsky.social
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A very provocative idea. I rather like it. The term "artificial intelligence" has that subconscious connotation with being alive and sentient, but "cognitive automation" doesn't have those trapdoors.
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tohorā
@tohora.bsky.social
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The very simple Maramataka and Chinese lunar calendar conversion table. Mānawatia a Matariki! -
jackyan.com/blog/2022/06...
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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9mm parasocialism
@bigbuttlefish.bsky.social
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i am losing my mind
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Over 61,000 Europeans died as a direct result of 2022 heat waves, most of them women, according to a recent study published in Science:
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social
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Honestly I'd say part of the problem is the conflation of "art" with "content" in much the same way we have conflated "citizens" with "consumers". There is SO much more to art than 'content' ... not seeing that speaks volumes about those pushing the AI hype train.
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Johnny Normality (Feral Mode)
@probgobl.in
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Gentle reminder that everything OpenAI has said in general, and everything from Murati in particular, has been a mix of uncut bullshit and bullshit with a technobabble candy coating. Even pretending there is a point to what she is saying is simply buying into, and furthering, their hype cycle.
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Michael Brown
@jingajik.bsky.social
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Tin of the world's first brand of instant coffee, Strang's, invented and patented in Invercargill in 1889 by David Strang. (This tin ca.1925)
digitalnz.org/records/3188...
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Rebecca Sear
@rebeccasear.bsky.social
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Our article has also unleashed revealing comments from scientific racists. Several are now openly admitting that Lynn’s research was bad science but that the flaws in his work don’t matter; “the project” is all that matters, and, after all, he did get the “right” results. Here’s the article
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Grant❤️🔥Buist
@grantbuist.com
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you know we can’t buy your ghost ships
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ɔıN
@hazmat.bsky.social
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It's interesting that a large portion of the countries budget woes, could be solved by just...not doing the whole tax cut thing.
I sure as hell won't notice $25 a week in my pay, and I'm happy to do without for things like...nurses, a reliable interisland ferry etc
#nzpol
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Stephen Hill
@srhastraea.bsky.social
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... what they did find couldn't be replicated in 2020:
www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/wri...
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Stephen Hill
@srhastraea.bsky.social
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For instance, the report claims that Mueller & Oppenheimer (2014) showed that "Writing by hand also helps to secure new conceptual and vocabulary knowledge." Not only did this paper not claim there was something magical about writing that helped (apart from slowing note taking down) ...
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Stephen Hill
@srhastraea.bsky.social
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I have to say, as a cognitive psychologist, I’m not super convinced by the cognitive psychology cited in the report. Certainly nothing in there that is robust enough to drive recommendations for practice.
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Giovanni Tiso
@gtiso.bsky.social
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IMPORTANT: The response by the inclusive Education Action Group to today's appalling announcement by Willis and Stanford on special school funding.
(Not enough characters in the ALT field to make it accessible, but you can read the whole statement here: www.facebook.com/IEAG.NZ/post...)
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Critical AI
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social
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📢📢📢CRITICAL AI PROUD TO PREVIEW INTRO TO SPECIAL ISSUE ON LLMS, GEN AI AND THE RISE OF CHATBOTS. Abstract and snips below /1 📢📢📢
criticalai.org/2024/06/06/s...
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Carissa Véliz
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
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As predicted, AI is making research worse. The Scopus CiteScore ranking of philosophy journals has 3 journals among the top 10 journals that are fake. They are AI generated, with fake authors, and cite each other extensively to achieve a top ranking.
#AIEthics
retractionwatch.com/2024/06/12/h...
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Zeke Hausfather
@hausfath.bsky.social
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We are talking about a 2.5% increase in the 20% of electricity generation that’s the commercial sector in the ~25% of CO2 emissions that are in the power sector. So a ~0.1% change in overall US CO2 emissions?
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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Holy moly. Quite a significant upwards revision of projected power demand in the US commercial sector thanks basically entirely to new data centres, it seems
www.eia.gov/outlooks/ste...
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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There's a great bit in the TIME CHASERS episode of mst3k where the main character is pitching dumb-sounding ideas for stuff you could do with a time machine, and the mst3k guys riff "you could send an egg into the future!" and like every AI application in 2024 sounds like that
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Veronika Meduna
@veronikameduna.bsky.social
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Military-style "boot camps" are coming back in NZ, despite plenty of evidence that they don’t work. A team of psychologists looks into why strong discipline and punishment are unlikely to lead to behaviour change
theconversation.com/boot-camps-f...
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Stephen Hill
@srhastraea.bsky.social
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
@sanjanah.bsky.social
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Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask
@marcdaalder.bsky.social
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Pharmac says there are no plans to change eligibility criteria for free Covid-19 vaccination. There's a false screenshot going around suggesting that Pharmac is ending free Covid-19 vaccination for a wide range of people beginning July 1. Again, it's false.
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