Experiment participation - Will you do our 10-minute fun experiment? If you are over 18, can do the study in a computer (not phone) and want to help, we will be very grateful!!! tinyurl.com/4f9jk2yd

Grid Game: Follow-Up Questions and Debrief

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Unpublished 2011 results rescued from oblivion!⏳ osf.io/preprints/ps.... Effects of systematicity and frequency distribution (uniform, skewed) on artificial language learning. With Barbora Skarabela, @andrewdmsmith.bsky.social and @simonkirby.bsky.social

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

INTRODUCTION

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Nicely done. Also, this is a cool paper (by @mdrelichman.bsky.social, @jvoth.bsky.social, and J Vidal-Robert). www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

I have run a version of the drawing experiment from my paper with Monica Tamariz in class before. Transmitting an abstract drawing that is covered up before drawing versus not covered up. The “from memory” version evolves to be more compressible! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Culture: Copying, Compression, and Conventionality

Through cultural transmission, repeated learning by new individuals transforms cultural information, which tends to become increasingly compressible (Kirby, Cornish, & Smith, ; Smith, Tamariz, & Kirb...

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Historical moment as @peetertinits.bsky.social defends his PhD, on "Cultural Evolution in Language and Art". Opponents/discussants @garicgymro.bsky.social & Monica Tamariz turned the public defense into a very interesting discussion too! Thesis: www.ester.ee/record=b5702...