Simple opponent-specific responses allow cooperation to spontaneously evolve and thrive.

Jeff Mitchell, Jeffrey Bowers. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2020.

From time to time I hear of an application of the severe testing philosophy in intriguing ways in fields I know very little about. An example is a recent article by cognitive psychologist Jeffrey B…

Understanding causality from machine learning is unfortunately usually impossible; life sciences take note

According to Futrell and Mahowald [arXiv:2501.17047], both infants and language models (LMs) find attested languages easier to learn than impossible languages that have unnatural structures. We review...

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