1/ 🚨 Out in JPSP, "Thinking in 3D: A Multidimensional Mapping of the Effects of Distance on Abstraction" asks:

How robust is the evidence for Construal Level Theory (CLT)?
Are spatial, temporal, and social distances equally influential?
How do these dimensions of distance interact? 1/n

Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise "You’ve taken this idea way too far," a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.

For example: open.substack.com/pub/understa... @binarybits.bsky.social

Given LLMs model multiple perspectives in the training data, they may express a sort of wisdom-of-crowds (higher accuracy than any one individual). But this may also mean worse predictions on surprising/exceptional results. If true, this would strongly motivate against LLMs to guide research agenda

The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic—Asterisk Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to friendship, this isn’t the first time that authorities have cried wolf.

The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic asteriskmag.com/issues/08/th...

Interesting piece

Interesting.
Though to my understanding, those who've argued for the existence of a moral direction have not claimed it to be inherent/inevitable/irreversible. They've always emphasized it depends on other trends such as secularization, free trade, complexity, inter-connectedness, etc.

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Mega-thread of 48 psychology-related starter packs!

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#Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪

Not exactly to your question, but I have found the Sky Follower Bridge chrome extensions useful for detecting and transferring Twitter follows to Bsky.

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מה זה בוט 500 המשחקים? :o