Ben Radford

AI's one and only killer app is summarizing in text all of the 10 min how-to videos that people decided were a better idea than how-to articles about ten years ago

Call me a conspiracy theorist but there's got to be more to this Anthropic / DoW fight than we've been told

Kat Abughazaleh: "We need to, first off abolish and prosecute ICE and DHS and we return DHS' responsibilities to Departments of Justice, State, of Treasury, of Transportation. All of these responsibilities that were taken from those departments... We need to repeal the Patriot Act."

Banana pudding is so much better than the sum of it's parts

"AI isn't ready to write a paper on its own yet - it's just not a very good writer. But I let it do all my coding and analysis for me it's great at that."

whichever part of writing a paper that you think AI can do better than humans is just the part of writing a paper that you are the worst at send tweet

The top scorer for Fri, Feb 20, 2026, UTC is: @benradford.bsky.social! They scored 360 points for #Wordle 1707 and solved it on row 1! That's better than 2,396 (~100%) other users. Never give up!

Wordle 1,707 1/6

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Finally

Did I miss something?

How so? If someone contributed language to the manuscript, they should be listed as an author, no?

Yikes 😬

Literally just heard someone on the phone in the elevator say "I'm calling to let senator fetterman know I'm alarmed and concerned..."

Baby bok choi is the cutest vegetable

When the US military said it could fight simultaneous major wars on two fronts, who'd have thought those would be against Iran and Greenland?

Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome | CNN Politics The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting sp...

Talk about an interesting conspiracy/mystery. holy cow

www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p...

Sorry scientists, but coding is part of the learning process and offloading it to LLMs is equivalent to reading a paper, not writing one

OMG yes I've been saying this! I would pay so much for an email service that charges the sender $0.05 per incoming message

Truncated or Censored Data

Is this not a right censored duration model problem? mc-stan.org/docs/stan-us...

Oops I meant Calley

I think soldiers under Callum were charged but not convicted for Mai Lai

Very excited that my paper with @katakeith.bsky.social is now out in @polanalysis.bsky.social. We investigate whether LLMs actually follow the instructions/definitions provided in codebooks, propose some diagnostics, and release a new evaluation dataset.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

what are the most widely read digital newspapers by web traffic across the US and EU? do you know of any current repositories?

NASA maybe finding life on Mars doesn't even make the cut, huh?

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Congratulations!

Skills & tools that nobody teaches you but that pay for themselves many times over in social sciences:

1. regex
2. Linux
3. Selenium & beautifulsoup
4. Git
5. SQL

Learn to love regex. Don't let ChatGPT steal the joy that could be yours

"[editorial team reading] largely corroborates the reviewers' assessment both positive and critical. We found merit in your paper but share some of the concerns raised by the reviewers" 🙄

Two out of two reviews are basically all "I just don't get LLMs" like this