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I feel bad for anyone named Al these days

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never let competence get in the way of performance

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buttttttt the nice thing about that tho is that it means babies don't have all that much experience watching people do this, which makes the results all the more interesting

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or just read co-lead author @esranur.bsky.social's lovely summary :) bsky.app/profile/esra...

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Also available at PhilPapers philpapers.org/rec/TURACD-2

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Now out online! Why do kids sometimes bomb possibility reasoning tasks and other times totally nail it? We review the lit and show how differences in a set of common ancillary cognitive demands in these tasks "push around" the age at which children succeed - psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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APA PsycNet

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Excited to finally have these data out! And, @deontbenton.bsky.social and Hoch’s paper inspired us to combine data to look at age effects from 4.5—19 months; w/ replication data from Ciftci, @jfkominsky.bsky.social & Csibra). Across 4 measures we find age effects in 1 (despite 4+x experience)

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Seems like the problem is with the human values...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And here's the official journal version! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ha! That's exactly why we have to put the containers far enough apart so babies can't grab both at once :)

That is, they chose the larger quantity from the agent's perspective (2) not their own (4)!

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Infants defaulted to the agent's perspective whenever it was available. We think this suggest that an agent’s quantity representations may supplant infants’ own, and this may allow infants to represent a subset of objects when they would normally experience catastrophic representational failure.

But what was really wild was what happened when infants were faced with a choice between 1 vs 4. When an agent had no knowledge of what was in the containers, infants chose at chance (classic catastrophic failure pattern). But when the agent *thought* the quantities were 1 vs. 2, infants chose 2!

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When the infant saw one cracker hidden in one location and two in another, they chose the container with two. But when an observing agent thought the quantities were 1 vs. 1, infants chose the two containers at roughly equal rates.

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New from me and Jessica Applin! We find that infants' behavior in a cracker choice task is impacted by an agent’s partial knowledge of object quantity: infants choose based on the agent's (inaccurate) representation rather than their own 🤯 Now in press at JECP, preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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not technically philosophy, but Cory Doctorow has some useful stuff on IP, copyright, and AI (see e.g., doctorow.medium.com/copyright-wo...)

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The machine-learning monkey’s paw.

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

going to start printing my pre-reg documents and data files and mailing them to myself to be postmarked, like we used to do back in the day if we wanted docs to have an official time stamp

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Not to brag, but I can write a paper that makes a marginal and flat-footed contribution to a literature, does so in a needlessly technical way, and is a slog to read while spending $0 in Claude tokens

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Pretty confused ab the coming @cos.io changes to OSF. looks like they’re phasing out “projects” (ie where u share/store code, stimuli, etc) which has been a keystone for our replicable pipelines: the info recreates our manuscript, figs, analyses, etc & lets u do ur own. Open science at its best! 1/4

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm confused about this too, bc we put our preregs in Projects so they can be accessed alongside the data and analysis code once the preregistered work is complete... I get that this is a money issue, but it seems not v useful to store a prereg doc one place and everything else somewhere else

Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hope you feel better soon! Rest rest rest. And then more rest. Radical rest!