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Can one black box explain another?
Contracting out LLM-ology to LLMs.
May 29
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GPT-4 captures judgments about semantic relatedness quite well
Where it diverges, it does so in interesting ways.
May 18
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Turn-taking in the age of Zoom
How communication media shape communication
May 5
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April 2023
AI (mis)alignment, Waluigi, and the Knobe Effect
Why it might be easier for LLMs to be bad than good.
Apr 15
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March 2023
What (some) people think about cultured meat
Results from a pilot study of UC San Diego undergraduates (final N = 184).
Mar 27
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Useful cognitive lenses to see through
Tools for thinking.
Mar 20
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In cautious defense of LLM-ology
It's useful to try to peek inside the black box, but it should be done rigorously.
Mar 2
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February 2023
Cognitive Science needs linguistic diversity
Unrepresentative samples can narrow our perspective.
Feb 20
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Detecting LLM-generated text is hard
Most solutions raise questions of their own.
Feb 7
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January 2023
Cultured meat and the problem of "naturalness"
How perceived naturalness impacts attitudes towards cultured meat.
Jan 16
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December 2022
Blowing off steam or picking a scab?
Different conceptualizations of what it means to express anger.
Dec 20, 2022
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Humans, LLMs, and the symbol grounding problem (pt. 2)
Evidence for knowledge in the absence of sensorimotor input.
Dec 7, 2022
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