new preprint: "The Humorous Hill: A U-shaped Relationship Between Humor and Quality" (by Bhattacharya, Hu, and me) link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I wonder if anyone's done meta-stylometry to recover interactions based on an non-vanilla LLMs output(?) I mean to say: repeated use of current language models can shift their output to suit the user; So, take the output of a modified model and work backwards to infer prior interactions

new preprint: "The Humorous Hill: A U-shaped Relationship Between Humor and Quality" (by Bhattacharya, Hu, and me) link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I appreciate that some places have negative consequences for AI-slop-submissions (desk reject, ban from submitting for X time) but what do we do about reviews that were clearly LLM-written? Ban those people from being reviewers? Oh no! Do we threaten them with some delicious ice-cream too?

ASMR ISN'T REAL | 10 Hour Rant 😌 Muttering, Growling, Tapping 😴 (fast sleep)

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

many funny little asides in this interview with philosopher Avishai Margalit: www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202... i think my favorite is that writing for the New York Review of Books gave him the privilege of high-quality hate mail

מוסר, מחיר החירות ועתיד הציונות. שיחות עם אחד מגדולי הפילוסופים בישראל

במרץ 1979 מצא את עצמו אבישי מרגלית בדירתו של מישל פוקו ברובע ה–15 בפריז. הוא הוזמן לשם על ידי ז'אן פול סארטר וסימון דה בובואר למפגש בנושא "ישראל והעולם הערבי".

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No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments

No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments

Abstract. Experimenter demand effects occur when participants alter their behavior to align with perceived study hypotheses, threatening internal validity. Concern about demand effects is pervasive…

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there's a Danish artist (Thomas Dambo) building giant troll statues in the woods for people to find throughout the world; we visited a few recently www.thomasdambo.com/trollmap

was listening to "Riptide" by Vance Joy and my brain inflicted this on me so now you have to see it too

i love how the review process is now so long that Reviewer comments include demands to know why we didn't cite the important work of So-and-So (2025) -- work that was published *after* the submission of the original manuscript they are critiquing.

the most terrifying Where's Waldo (if you're a small bird)

now that the Odyssey is having a moment I must retreat into ever more rarified levels of snobbery, such as reading the latest translation of Gilgamesh from Akkadian into Hebrew

looking forward to the CogSci symposium on "CogSci-Inspired Evaluation of Large Language Models" at the #cogsci2026 conference I'll be talking about evaluating cog-things in AI-stuff

New paper finally out in @NatureComms with E. Leib, D. O’Shaughnessy, C. Gallardo, @sferrigno.bsky.social, and @spiantado.bsky.social. 📝Children across cultures discover the latent algorithms that structure what they see, even without instruction, feedback, or formal schooling.🧵 tinyurl.com/4a238m2d

On the Surprising Effectiveness of Little Treats (cont.)

Tomer Ullman@tomerullman.bsky.social · 4w ago

On the Surprising Effectiveness of Little Treats

going to the aviary to brush up on some new insults

every time there's a new video model I try some basic physics on it. So, here's the recent Google Omni tasked with continuining an image of a man throwing a mug at a tower of skulls. will the mug hit the skulls? see for yourself.

Should the title of your paper end in a question? Probably not

must be tough being a guy named Claude working in AI right now

staying at friends and trying to work on a grant submission but they have an advanced anti-grant-writing system

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have kids, and/or like to read and/or stuff? May I recommend "Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home"? (by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)

On the Surprising Effectiveness of Little Treats

telling an LLM to "just fix style and grammar" can change a lot more than just style and grammar

Tomer Ullman@tomerullman.bsky.social · 4w ago

"I used an LLM to help me write, but it was just to polish the style and grammar" is something you've probably come across, or done yourself. Many conferences and journals and teachers are ok with this. But does it...? Just focus on the style and grammar...?

"I used an LLM to help me write, but it was just to polish the style and grammar" is something you've probably come across, or done yourself. Many conferences and journals and teachers are ok with this. But does it...? Just focus on the style and grammar...?

If only BBS allowed replies to takedowns of commentaries to papers; clearly another Journal format is needed.

Sydney Levine@sydneylevine.bsky.social · 4w ago

And continue to stay for our epic takedown of Tomer's critique! tinyurl.com/LevineBBS-re...

building some Lego with the kids and the instructions here had me puzzled for a moment if I'm supposed to reach for the 6 or the 9 bag