Dan de Kadt

Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social):

Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.

Humans putting AI out of work, you love to see it

Ranking companies started by South Africans

1. Nando's
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N. Tesla

Absolute self own of the highest order

The US Administration has embarked on a large, unprecedented program of excluding lawful, highly-skilled workers and students from the United States.

I talked with the brilliant @gracesegers.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com about the broad economic ripple effects.

newrepublic.com/article/2073...

Agree but not sure I understand the original tweet

What is it like to be a newly free horse

Will I still be able to pay my mortgage

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My life is so mundane that this is an empty set

Tbth I feel this kind of behaviour should exclusively be the domain of YouTube vloggers

Tbf last night the 7 year was telling me about "cat memes" (business cat, science cat) so maybe we will be culturally relevant again soon

Dropped a few 6-7s this term but declined any skibidi toilets

I exclusively use memes my 7 year old brings home from school. Fresh. Claude could never.

I think a lot of us have been making this point over and over for a while. It's why I don't really believe any of the nonsense that some of our colleagues are spitting (and monetizing) on LinkedIn.

Tho I'm still extremely pessimistic about AI (maybe not for the reasons or in the way you imagine).

There's a "deep" (and obvious) answer here, which is that the UK has a broad cultural fascination with (or fetish for) the "exotic," and with the idea of being a Victorian-era gentleman explorer.

I'm not sure if it was caused by the Colonial experience, or caused it, or both.

There is/was a tradition at Wesleyan econ seminars to introduce speakers as trained at [PhD] and educated at [Undergrad].

Easy to be proud of where you were educated when the university prez writes like this

You’re a shark!!

I’m pretty libertarian wrt what people can do with their own bodies, minds, and money, but gambling in general should simply not be allowed .

Troubleshoot that baby

Honestly? No. I’m a large language model designed to be a coding assistant, not a human.

However, if you enable API access to meatbook I _can_ hire a human to rock your baby to sleep for you.

Would you like me to show you a comparison of the costs of you doing it yourself versus a hired hand?

Wow Claude trying to get you to waste tokens by telling it the answer. Cheeky Anthropic

Ask Claude to ask you!

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Feeding slop is an act of war

Not sure what "entirely generated" means, exactly, but I feel we need new norms around this. Here's a blog I like about "etiquette", "consent", and what should be considered "rude" when sharing AI-generated content. Disclosures after the fact do not cut it, IMO. distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...

Yes.

I'm gonna be honest here... I read your substack at 2am last night (sent to me by a friend), and my immediate feeling was "this was written by an LLM."

Make of that what you will.

(in b4 you post again saying "sike this was actually not written by an LLM!")

They see me filin'
They hatin'

@kstrump.bsky.social may (or may not) be able to help?

Midterms The question we face in the US today is whether a party in office which is supported by 40 percent of survey respondents can win an election.

Very thoughtful from @adamprz.bsky.social. At once somehow optimistic and sobering.

"We live in an unprecedented time and I have learned that history is a poor guide to predict what will happen."

It was a choice sadly