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You're Not Wrong, You're Just Not Neighbourly (opens the original)
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Here is a lightly-edited essay I published on this Substack about two years ago. I still walk in my neighbourhood marveling at the trees and gardens, but amazed that so many smart people seem to think it is perfectly ok to plaster political mesages on their lawn. I mind man, the Dude minds. When my family and I moved to our neighbourhood five years ago, I noticed three peculiar things immediately: trees, whites, and signs.Trees. My neighbourhood of Roncesvalles Village in Toronto’s west end sits
An Argument With a Friend Who Doesn't Exist (opens the original)
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I have been arguing about AI companions with a friend for two years and neither of us has convinced the other. So, I tried something. I fed an AI everything we had said to each other and told it to write the fight out as a dialogue, playing both parts. What follows is what it produced, with extensive edits by me. Let’s call the man arguing against me Saul Pereekah. My actual friend read an earlier draft and told me he doesn’t recognize himself in it. Fair enough. Saul is a machine’s impression o
Open Science Met Social Justice. They Don't Get Along. (opens the original)
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Not long ago, I wrote a Substack essay about my biggest fear for social psychology—that the activists among us would destroy our science. My fear boils down to one thing, that activist leanings present a simple conflict of interest for science’s core mission of discovering truths. Yes we all have values that drive our choices about what to study and how to study it, and these act as biases that can also act as conflicts of interest. Activists have these, but they also ha
Did We Make Prejudice Worse? (opens the original)
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There’s been lots of talk about race in academia in the news cycle…again.Subscribe nowFirst, Tyler Austin Harper wrote the cover story for the Atlantic about his experience as a Black professor at a small liberal arts college in Maine. As he tells it, he was hired less because he was an expert in his topic area and a great teacher and mentor, and more because he was Black
Some Things Are Not Negotiable. Is AI One of Them? (opens the original)
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Here is another guest post by my PhD student, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello. This is a follow-up to her last essay, where she described the results of one of my favourite lab papers on how AI has become moralized by a minority of people. And, yes, they are a minority despite how loud they are and how much the media covers their grievances. In this new piece Victória gets at something deeper, the permissibility of moralization itself. She interrogates the assert
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