Dilip Soman 🇨🇦

I also see that no region has been assigned the highest probability colour, perhaps a nudge to make the worst-affected people feel that they're not the worst?

I logged in immediately on reading this but my months are not cool. I guess there is an element of personalization as well? :-)

Nudge!

All this while I've been thinking it's a mischievous rabbit!

A workshop on making events more equitable and inclusive. In-person only.

What an amazing paper and I need finding!

People are swayed by AI-generated videos even when they know they're fake, study shows Generative deep learning models are artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can create texts, images, audio files, and videos for specific purposes, following instructions provided by human users. Over ...

AI deepfakes affect people even if they know the videos are fake: nice media coverage here of phys.org/news/2026-0... one of our recent studies. 1/2
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Wait what, you actually *speak* on the phone!?

No.

Brilliant work as always!

The Hidden Imran • EQUATOR The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?

After jailing Imran Khan two years ago, Pakistan’s military establishment has tried to erase him from public life. @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social travelled to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to report on this bizarre effort to disappear the country’s most famous man.
www.equator.org/articles/the...

I miss the days when we criticized Presidents for relative peccadillos like starting wars without evidence!

Last minute strategic pivot :-)

Trump's Davos speech is an embarrassing ramble. America, humiliated.

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Neat trial building on earlier work by @jiayingzhao.bsky.social and colleagues! @nealemahoney.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social

Saying that "on average, nudges [or insert any other intervention here] aren't very effective" is a bit like saying that "on average, vehicles are not very fast".

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

This is amazing!

Birth Lottery If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery

h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn

In hindsight, Australia's depth in their reserves really shone through!

If you randomly select an option for this question, the probability that your answer is true will be

A. 0%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 25%

Grumpy opinion:
Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

I wonder how long a mindfulness session is. 144 is a lot for anyone to achieve.

I'm not even sure it is the sense of importance that matters as much as a disregard for or lack of knowledge about conversational norms!

Better than "Hey Dilip" :-0

It's time for Guns N Roses to update that November weather song #Toronto.