New paper! The English language is evolving to hook our attention. In Nature Communications Psychology with @thomhills and @WeisiG.

@LTF_01 And historically group selection was put forward as an explanation for various behaviours that have since been shown to be individual selection e.g. cooperation. So I guess that gives it a bit of a stigma

RT @al_cibiades: New paper "Resolving selfish and spiteful interdependent conflict" with @nicholaraihani and Charlie Pilgrim https://t.co/…

New paper in Cognition! A Bayesian model of confirmation bias.

@astupple Cluster munitions

RT @turinghut23: “Ten simple rules for working with other people’s code” which REG's own @EChalstrey and @kasra_hosseini helped former Tur…

RT @mvugt: #PLOSCompBio: Ten simple rules for working with other people’s code

New article out with @MrPKent @EChalstrey @kasra_hosseini . "Ten Simple Rules for Working With Other People's Code"

@danielmabuse Honestly I’d jump on google. Maybe something with multinomial distributions

@mezaoptimizer There are different types of simulation. Bostrom’s original argument was that a lot of it is “fake” to trick us while keeping compute low. You need low compute so there are lots of simulations. If you simulate the entire universe then you need a universe sized computer

@nickcammarata Do you have an opinion on a comparison between ibuprofen and vipassana meditation for pain relief? I’ve wondered if there was a connection but I don’t know enough about either

@LTF_01 I’ve even got a data idea. Prices/salaries of players and tweet sentiment analysis of individual vs team outlook as predictors for team success

@LTF_01 Reviewer #3

@EigenGender I don’t know who these “anti-AI-alignment academic researchers” are? I don’t think anyone is anti alignment. Probably they just think money is better spent elsewhere

@bryan_caplan Who said modern standards aren’t debatable? Isn’t that what you’re doing right now?

@MLiebreich @duncan__c Solar is biblical

@SnellingDean It’s outrageous. Also 12 hour shifts with life dependent decisions