Kevin P. Taylor

Entrepreneurship prof studying early-stage founders. Previously built software and startups. #rstats.

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

In my latest paper published this month (with my amazing co-authors not on x), we examined the effects of extraverted behavior on trust in a crowdfunding context.

Available here: https://t.co/3AEKAAzWRu

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

@DrCamRx Epic bad take.

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

@petergyang I applaud the board for acting quickly and with courage. This was the most difficult and impactful thing they will have done in their entire careers.

I wish more CEOs accepted responsibility for their poor choices.

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

@FeministPsych @thephdstory This is great and so telling. Most of what we write, nobody reads. Even in our T&P portfolio!

[VoteVets @votevets]

What a disgrace to have the Secretary of Defense reprimanded by a Sentinel at the tomb of the unknown soldier on Veterans Day. Pete Hegseth has no respect for the fallen and he can’t even remain reverent on this sacred day at one of our nation’s most sacred memorials. This makes our blood boil. Hegseth must be impeached and removed from office.

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

A black swan even today in the chip industry.

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

Don’t be evil

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

Are you following @edzitron's reporting on the AI industry?

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

@PsychRabble @olivertraldi I am also doing much of this in class. I don’t assign any homework that carries significant assessment value. You’re right it cuts down on prep time, though that’s not why I’ve made the change.

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

After Elon Musk posted on X saying he had throttled Ukraine’s use of Starlink after it was used for offensive attacks, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) says the billionaire’s ability to wield that power is “beyond disturbing to me.”

“It cannot and should not be the case that a tech oligarch, a private citizen, who has that much control over our national security, who is unaccountable, who is unelected, with zero transparency, is making life and death decisions on the battlefield in systems that our service members and our partners and allies rely upon,” he adds.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

People still don't want to read AI-generated books.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile!

In 2 large field experiments, unfollowing a few extreme influencers:
-Reduced partisan animosity by 24%
-Increased satisfaction with Twitter/X
-Led people to share higher-quality news

Effects persisting for 6+ months and most people choose not to refollow the influencers after the study was over.

Read the full paper here: https://t.co/3KTtqUjjdi

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

@elisaxchen @eni_iljazi Partial credit sounds ok but not enough that it allows them to pass on just the partial credit, maybe?

[Brian Gordon @GordonBrianR]

I have no idea what is happening with Starlink or who is making what decisions, but the DoW’s argument against Anthropic was that a private firm couldn’t be allowed to dictate or compromise U.S. policy or the government’s sovereign control over policy and relevant capabilities.

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

So the US military relies on a satellite internet system a private billionaire can turn off at will?

Shouldn’t US allies who rely in it be terrified?

More importantly , shouldn’t the US government be a bit worried one private citizen has the capability to do this?

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

1. AI written
2. AI written with human input
3. How do you know if what was written was your ideas or the AI content? It quickly becomes a stew.

[Robert Höglund @RobertHoglund]

It strikes me that there are three very different ways people use AI which all look the same to @pangram .

1) MEAT PROXY, letting AI do both the thinking and writing for you.

2) Coming to AI with finished thoughts and ideas, using AI to phrase it more elegantly, adding filler words between bullet points etc

3) Iterating back and forth with AI, bouncing ideas, forming a text together.

All three can show up as 100% AI-generated in Pangram, but clearly very different processes and I think can become conflated.

I definitely sometimes do nr 2 and 3 sometimes. Never 1, (But on Twitter I don't use AI-written text)

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

@RealOxfordComma It’s 😻

[Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor]

@abhishekn Faculty leading by example.

[Abhishek Nagaraj @abhishekn]

Just read a recommendation letter from the main advisor of a very promising job market candidate that was 100 percent AI generated according to Pangram.

Don’t do this!!

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

A very useful report on how AI is affecting student learning at MIT.

I like this term cognitive surrender, "where students fall back on AI at the first hint of struggle."

We need to encourage undergrads (and all humans) to recognize this pattern and resist it.