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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

What is funding the rapid growth of AI companies? At our recent conference on AI and news, @maxkasy.bsky.social of @oxfordecondept.bsky.social cited the involvement of companies involved in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. buff.ly/r6gCk3h

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drnickecon.bsky.social @drnickecon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Would it be progress if people start clustering effect sizes/ROI on the “right” side of a “too good to be true” threshold? How to balance quest for novelty vs. research that just confirms our priors from a well known distribution of effect sizes/ROI? Glad I’m not an editor.

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drnickecon.bsky.social @drnickecon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

But I agree that “no free lunch” and “be suspicious of psychology/information type interventions” are good (though hardly definitive) guiding principles.

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drnickecon.bsky.social @drnickecon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“Major changes in important things” and “tiny interventions” are doing some heavy lifting there. The search for low cost, high ROI interventions will continue in Dev and Applied Micro regardless of the issues with replicability and/or research fraud in particular studies.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Where you are under surveillance by Meta, and what you can do about it:

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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

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