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Breakdancing dads and the alchemy of embarrassment

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Our new preprint on how controllable AI behaviours could modulate human belief and cognition across scales

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facing festive ontological crises with santa, voldemort and psychedelics

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The age of neurotic AI is here

Or: how a LLM having a panic attack taught me to love myself

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