New 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 🧵

Two million in Bluesky - please post a celebratory bird

I'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

With 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!)

Bob’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

Does 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

“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

A media: www.thetrace.org/2023/10/amer... (I am in it.)

I'm assuming goose content is welcome here?