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New perspective in @NatRevPsych: human intelligence is a matter of scale of information processing, not genetic changes to one domain. Implications for AI, evolution, and development. - with @CantlonLab
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steven t. piantadosi
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steven t. piantadosi
@spiantado
computational cognitive science
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- Here is why IQ is bullshit. A thread.
- Did you know that there are psychologists who study "stereotype accuracy"? I've always wondered what the hell, so I've been reading it recently. For the record, it’s exactly as bad as it sounds. Here’s a thread.
- it's official: a reviewer has commented on my use of "accordion" in a paper and said to choose "some other more reasonable instrument"
- Large language models change everything for linguistics, starting with Chomsky. Featuring: LLMs as scientific theories, response to prior takes, "why" questions in language, acquisition... and how the field should have seen this coming. Paper is here: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007180
- I work on mathematical models of cognition at UC Berkeley, and also research the origins of math. All of your questions are wonderful. Here are some shots at answers.
- everyone works to make figures that are easy to understand, but this one took me a minute (I thought it was a graphics mistake) and that made the point even stronger
- Instead of h-index, what about computing how likely someone is to work with you again after working with you once?
- I am sooooooo excited for this paper. We've spent years developing a super fast program induction library. We use it to learn key pieces of language structure. So much of what Chomskyan linguists say about learnability is totally wrong. 🧵 pnas.org/content/119/5/…
- Replying to @spiantadoChristian Ebbesen wrote a damning paper critique psyarxiv.com/tzr8c (which the figure just above is from)
- Replying to @spiantado(It’s actually not clear that people without printed materials understand pictures in the same way we do. Here's Tepilit Ole Saitoti, from his autobiography, The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior)
