@fcummins I literally made a fake podcast with this yesterday based on the pdf's I used in our visual gaze Masters project from 2015 - it was crazy. I'm kind of afraid to put my phd research in there...
A little piece on our @NatureHumBehav paper looking at the relationship between the structure of cultural and genetic diversity in Central Africa is now out in @natAfrica1 https://t.co/eCa9u0rFbJ 😍 Thanks a lot @dannoOkoth for writing about it!
@Abebab I don't know Abeba, @ChatGPTapp recently did a pretty good first draft of merging my existing CV with a job description. It can be pretty good at helping with all sorts of technical issues too. Like any tool it can be used for positive or negative purposes.
It has been very funny to see people respond to my recent argument that some research practices logically follow from a philosophy of science.
Imagine how these people would feel if they read Popper, who wrote a whole book about the 'logic of scientific discovery'.
Understanding understanding – could an A.I. cook meth? https://t.co/dwj2OHqZaN - in which I try to tease apart what makes Walter White's understanding "deeper" than Jesse Pinkman's...
@JoeAtikian@WiringTheBrain I'm looking forward to seeing a theory of human evolution that doesn't use the concepts of species or sex. Most multicellular life is overrated anyhow.
1/4) Several people I admire immensely have signed this, but respectfully, I'm afraid I just don't agree with the claim that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority".
I think this statement is naive and a mistake.
@ZeroStateReflex@KevinAFischer As experimental "success" is often measured by p values, suggesting experiments that have a greater chance of such a value is called p-hacking and is one of the types of problems in applying LLM's without a deep understanding of experimental design oneself.
@seymiotics@PsychScientists Doom us to a world full of mediocre copy-paste images, badly written clickbait articles and threats of nuclear annihilation? .... Hang on a minute ...
@WiringTheBrain Reductionism is still a major part of scientific thinking, and this is amplified in popular culture. So it's still a useful phrase, even just as a starting point for alternative ways of understanding complex systems.
@Abebab Most population genetics research is on non-human species. Of the research that deal with humans, only a tiny proportion of research could be considered racist, mostly historical. E.g. some of the latest research here: https://t.co/sGR6nLuPhf
@CoachZachElder@PsychScientists The classic paper on the evolution of human physiology involved in throwing is here: https://t.co/OQVUqAdX1M The paper itself is compact, but note there is another 50 pages of material in the supplementary notes if you really want to get into it.
@animegirl12182 @owillis@jessesingal@nytimes There is indeed disagreement among experts and other stakeholders on causes and treatment of gender dysphoria, as this @bmj_latest investigation describes: https://t.co/4Vofk2PtWy