𝐋𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐭 𝐥𝐚 𝐦𝐞́𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Vous avez toutes et tous en tête les inquiétudes légitimes sur les risques que posent les LLMs.

One sees articles with titles like “everyone hates AI”. They don’t mention the power of LLMs for accessing expert information. Is it possible that attitudes towards AI (warm vs cold) have become a single item measure of the strength of people’s accuracy/epistemic motivations?

Something this sad Arday story reminded me of is that it's possible to have ppl who do their best to do actual social Science (learn methods, coding, pre-reg, replication), while others will just do 'auto-ethnographic' papers based on a few introspections.

I really dislike Cofnas and feel sad about Arday's death. But we urgently need to uphold stronger norms of scientific independence from political vibes, left and right, across our Western democracies. I signed this petition: x.com/sapinker/sta...

Steven Pinker (@sapinker) on X

If you're an academic (and can prove it with an ORCID), consider signing a petition protesting the University of Ghent's suspension of a postdoc for exposing academic misconduct, a blatant violation o...

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Hot take: Politically motivated thinking is common in face to face conversations because people want to influence their informational environment (starting with the people they're chatting with) and get triggered by their partners' speech.

Mon apparition sur la chaîne Twitch de "Vous avez le droit" (aka @SébastienCanevet), le premier vulgarisateur du droit en France: m.twitch.tv/videos/28205...

𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐭-𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐞 𝐦é𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐟é𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬 ? / 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐞 𝐁𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 "𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬"?

𝐍𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐪𝐮’𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐮𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐫

Think being "pro-rationality" protects against spreading political misinformation? Not so simple.

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

[A écouter] Le dernier épisode de @propagationspod.bsky.social Au micro de @guillaumeled.it @a-marie-sci.bsky.social décortique les ressorts psychologiques qui font que la désinformation fonctionne: non pas malgré notre intelligence, mais souvent grâce à elle. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/p...

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Émission dans Politique · Chaque semaine · Autour de nous, des batailles silencieuses font rage. Pas de mouvements de troupes visibles, mais des récits propagés, des croyances fabriquées, des éléments de langage amplifiés. Ces attaques ont pou…

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New post on my Substack summarizing our ambitious cross-national study of online hostility, published in @nature.com Nature Human Behavior - with @boralexander.bsky.social @m-b-petersen.bsky.social @leapradella.bsky.social

🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions. 🧵1/7

Social media users experience more political hostility in less economically equal and less democratic societies - Nature Human Behaviour

Drawing on survey data from 30 countries, Bor et al. find that online political hostility is higher in more unequal and less democratic societies.

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New post by me on @mchangama.bsky.social's substack The Bedrock Principle on “The psychology of speech repression”. Thanks Jacob Mchangama! Link below. 👇

Robert Trivers, a theoretical genius and likely the Einstein of evolutionary biology, passed away. His theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, and self deception are among the deepest and most encompassing in the social sciences. Great post on them by @lionelpage.bsky.social

Our paper just hit 50 citations 🎯: "Political conspiracy theories as tools for mobilization and signaling", Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022, with @m-b-petersen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Compte rendu saisissant par @mediapart.fr des nombreuses attaques racistes dont ont été la cible des candidats locaux racisés en France. youtube.com/watch?v=yAyB...

« Quand l’extrême droite est traitée comme respectable, les racistes deviennent respectables »

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La présence de l’IA générative dans la couverture du conflit en Iran, ou la campagne des municipales françaises, réactualisent l’idée que nous serions parvenus à une époque de “post-vérité”.

Suite à l'article, j'ai eu l'occasion de présenter mon analyse (développée avec Peter Barrett) de la radicalisation politique sur France 24 ce week-end, en français et en anglais: FR: www.france24.com/fr/%C3%A9mis... www.france24.com/fr/france/20... EN: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpHH...

La question qui fâche - Violences politiques en France : le grand basculement ?

Après la mort du militant nationaliste Quentin Deranque, peut-on encore parler de "radicalisation marginale" ou bien est-ce le symptôme d’un malaise démocratique plus profond ? L'analyse d'Antoine Mar...

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Antoine Marie PhD@a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Mort de Quentin D. à Lyon : mon nouvel article dans The Conversation sur la radicalisation politique, co-écrit avec Peter Barrett. En accès libre ci-dessous. L'un des concepts clés est celui de "l'escalier de la radicalisation" : progressif et insensible, mais pouvant aboutir à l'irréparable.

Article on political (de)radicalization in English on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/antoinem...

Murder of a far-right activist by antifas in Lyon: what mechanisms lead to political violence?

[This article is an adapted translation from a piece that first came out in The Conversation, France, in French, on Feb.

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Antoine Marie PhD@a-marie-sci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Mort de Quentin D. à Lyon : mon nouvel article dans The Conversation sur la radicalisation politique, co-écrit avec Peter Barrett. En accès libre ci-dessous. L'un des concepts clés est celui de "l'escalier de la radicalisation" : progressif et insensible, mais pouvant aboutir à l'irréparable.

Mort de Quentin D. à Lyon : mon nouvel article dans The Conversation sur la radicalisation politique, co-écrit avec Peter Barrett. En accès libre ci-dessous. L'un des concepts clés est celui de "l'escalier de la radicalisation" : progressif et insensible, mais pouvant aboutir à l'irréparable.

La mort d'Alex Pretti, abattu par des agents fédéraux à Minneapolis le 24 janvier dernier, était d’une barbarie inouïe pour un pays démocratique.

The belief that evolutionary psychology makes unfalsifiable hypotheses is old, but deeply misconceived: New paper by @costellowilliam @ProfDavidBuss et al. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

The whole reason why certain people criticize violations of political or academic free speech, and others want to restrict it, is because we all implicitly believe that what is “just” should be a balance between :

Principled behaviour—unconditionally obeying maxims without tradeoffs or compromise, even at personal cost—is puzzling. Singh & Hoffman explain it through •‘committed agents’ (it’s “right”), and •impersonators (strategic, to gain trustworthiness) osf.io/preprints/ps... HT @a-marie-sci.bsky.social

Claude AI is making my life SO much easier as a researcher. Searching, writing, coding, proofreading.

Philosophy papers tend to be so boring and technical. Sorry philosophers, mean no disrespect, and I have a phil masters myself. But what explains this?

🚀 Le 24 décembre de 10h à 11h, je parlerai sur France Inter de comment rendre nos discussions politiques en famille plus productives et moins conflictuelles. Ce sera lors de l'émission d'Eva Roque, "SOS Noël" (lol), avec l'humoriste Florent Peyre. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

If (as you should) you worry about suppression of free speech, you had better understand what motivates people to seek to suppress speech in the first place. @a-marie-sci.bsky.social investigated just that and summarizes it here: buff.ly/eCavrwd

New blog post on why it's not the best idea to talk about all Rassemblement national voters as a homogenous bunch of "racists". In English and French below.