Nick Buttrick @nickbuttrick.bsky.social · 23/01/2024New article at TiCS: What can ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) tell us about people? As a collection of compressed cultural artifacts, LLMs potentially allow for the study of culture at a massive scale. But caution is needed. 1/n 🧵 161
Nick Buttrick @nickbuttrick.bsky.social · 19/11/2023Two million in Bluesky - please post a celebratory bird 150
Reposted by Nick ButtrickBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 19/11/2023I'm going through old photos and found this. The last time there was Goose Discourse I mentioned this evil goose that would come after me when I was a kid at this local lake. This is not that goose, but that is the same lake, and I am certain this is one of that evil fucker's descendants 2214412
Nick Buttrick @nickbuttrick.bsky.social · 15/11/2023With grad admission deadlines coming up, I’m hoping to recruit a grad student (or 2!) this year! If you’re interested in guns, culture, or novels/reading, please reach out - I’d love to hear from you and chat about Madison. (Please share!) 052
Reposted by Nick ButtrickAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/10/2023Bob’s 1986 AER, from his dissertation, compared estimates from an experimental and an econometric evaluation of the same job training program. It showed limits of econometric approaches and is one of the most influential validation exercises in labor. www.jstor.org/stable/1806062 195
Reposted by Nick ButtrickErin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 13/10/2023Does what we read shape our worldviews? People who read more literary fiction growing up exhibit more complex worldviews (eg attributional complexity, lower essentialism) as adults - @nickbuttrick.bsky.social #SESP #psychology #socialpsyc 282
Reposted by Nick ButtrickErin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 13/10/2023“What is it about fiction, about poetry, about narrative that makes it so powerful? …that makes philosophers think of mass murder?” - @nickbuttrick.bsky.social on Plato #SESP #psychology #socialpsyc 061
Nick Buttrick @nickbuttrick.bsky.social · 10/10/2023A media: www.thetrace.org/2023/10/amer... (I am in it.)thetrace.orgA Culture of Fear Sells Guns in the U.S. This Is How We Got Here.In episode two of The Gun Machine, host Alain Stephens explains the history of American gun ownership, including the racist roots of the Second Amendment. 082