Peter Nagy

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy e01e05 is such a beautiful love letter to my favorite star trek show—Deep Space Nine.

‘The smart, the rich, the powerful’: Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prison Billionaires and intellectuals attended events with the disgraced financier years after he served time for sex offense, files reveal

New from me - Epstein continued attending dinners alongside the likes of Musk, Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin after his sentence for child sex offenses www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to industry .... However, the majority of these ties go undisclosed in the published research."

"industry-tied research garners more attention within the academy, among policymakers, on social media, and in the news."

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...

Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.

LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.

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I really liked the example you used to showcase that Galton's ideas - surprise! - are still with us. Also, the slides look AMAZING!

Such a great talk. Thank you for sharing!

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🚨New article out!
𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them?

This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype
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"Viewing Replika companions as quasi-domesticated objects can open up new ways for better understanding the Artificial Sociality of social chatbots" #generativeai #chatbots
Read our latest paper w/ @ginasue.bsky.social here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Exciting! Looking forward to reading your paper, Dan 🤓

Title: "Three objections to a novel paradigm in social media effects research" Abstract: The study of social media effects on psychological well-being has reached an impasse: Popular commentators confidently assert that social media are bad for users but research results are mixed and have had little practical impact. In response, one research group has proposed a path forward for the field that moves beyond studying population averages to find effects that are specific to individuals. We outline three objections to that research agenda. On a methodological level, the key empirical results of this programme—proportions of the population of individuals with negative, null, and positive social media effects—are not appropriately estimated and reported. On a theoretical level, these results do little to advance our understanding of social media and its psychological implications. On a paradigmatic level, this “personalized media effects paradigm” (Valkenburg et al., 2021a, p.74) cannot inform inferences about individuals and therefore does not deliver what it claims. We express concern that this research approach may be contributing to confusing messaging to both societal stakeholders and scientists investigating how social media and well-being might be related. We sincerely hope that describing these objections prompts the field to work together in adopting better practices to develop a better understanding of well-being in the digital age.

@shuhbillskee.bsky.social, Niklas Johannes & I finally submitted our critique of a "new paradigm" in social media effects research for peer-review at Meta-Psychology. If you're interested in reviewing, please submit a review to open.peer.reviewer@gmail.com or e.g. prereview.org, or reply here.

a woman sitting at a table talking to a man who says money pleeeeease Alt: a woman sitting at a table talking to a man who says money pleeeeease

🕹️ Have you ever wondered how players make sense of the increasing commodification of video games? If so, you'll find our paper "How Players Make Use of Cosmetic Items in Video Games: A Persona Approach" useful. 🎮https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.2490

A screenshot of first page of the article "My Grades Are not as Good as a Scientist: Understanding Middle School Students’ Perceptions of Science and Scientists Through Science Possible Selves and Interests"

Our final paper from the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project (frankenstein.asu.edu) just got published! In this study, we showcase how concepts such as possible self and interest in science can enable students to engage in science more imaginatively. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

America's Digital Demand Threatens Black Communities with More Pollution The collective costs of artificial intelligence and data centers are disproportionately harming Black households.

“If you mapped all of the existing power plants in South Carolina, they’d follow the old path of one of the foundational pillars of the American economy through South Carolina: plantations and enslaved labor…We’ve seen the repeated pattern of these threats in our community.”

Shocking. Perplexing. Totally unexpected. If only we could have seen this coming... *sarcastic laughter in the background*

From the europe community on Reddit: Hungarian has no gendered pronouns, so Google Translate makes some assumptions Explore this post and more from the europe community

I am originally from Hungary which has a very unique language. When translating it to English, Google Translate has a tendency to mess things up. This is a great example: www.reddit.com/r/europe/com...

So here's what's cool about my job:

Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

Twin Peaks Llama YouTube video by peakstwinfalling

"Harry, in the heat of investigative pursuit, the shortest distance between two points is not necessarily in a straight line."

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6)

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Beyond research intersections, why should you want to work with me?

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I love this! Thanks for sharing!

Here's the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 starter pack! Includes past guests and friends of the show.

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