The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive. By Steven Pinker

A recent field experiment on Reddit reveals why a vocal minority dominates online political discussions, finding that toxic environments silence the majority while fueling the most active users.

Mental Models help you and your AI agent make better decisions. I prepared a dense collection of mental models and thinking tools, ready to include into your AGENTS.md

In this article, I argue that we can apply game theory to explain and control the behaviors that dominate in an online community. Not only can game theory explain why misinformation and abuse are so c...

About Event Much of the conversation about algorithmic social media has focused on its failures: polarization, outrage, echo chambers, and the enormous power…

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Nearly half of all polarization research focuses on the United States, yet many American findings are global outliers. A globally equitable understanding requires bridging traditional social science w...

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No, Texas didn't suspend 1.2 million voters. Here's what actually happened.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

A spec can contain prose, tests, schemas, formal models, even executable code. The useful boundary is not the syntax but, rather, what survives: if you throw the implementation away, what has to remain so you can build the next one?

Fact-checking has been promoted as a key method for combating political misinformation. Comparing the spread of election-related misinformation narratives along with their relevant political fact-c...

We used language models to screen 26 nonfiction books. They agreed on the broad winners, disagreed on the details, and helped us choose two finalists for a human trial.

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Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

Look to alienation, not just partisanship, and beware inflated measures of support for violence - BCB #188

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explan...

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