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Ulrike Hahn
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org

New year, new blog post...

This time with some thoughts on social media for science discourse!

all comments welcome!

https://write.as/ulrikehahn/some-thoughts-on-social-media-for-science

Ulrike Hahn
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org

I wrote something on why I think the stochastic parrot metaphor should be put to rest

it identifies ways in which I suspect it is now misleading and confusing people and focusses our discourse on the wrong issues

https://write.as/ulrikehahn/stochastic-parrot-is-a-misleading-metaphor-for-llms

#LLMs @philosophy@a.gup.pe @cogsci@a.gup.pe @communicationscholars@a.gup.pe

Ulrike Hahn
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org

And I'm interested in the conditions under which collectives are smart, #algorithms for making them smarter, building tools for #collectiveintelligence and building online spaces that might help, not hurt, #democracy

Ulrike Hahn
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org

I'm interested in both normative and descriptive questions about rational debate (as opposed to mere #persuasion). And much of my research in recent years obsesses about how we should respond to the #testimony of others given that we all are, sadly, not fully reliable sources and derive much of what we believe to know from others - others, who also talk to each other creating a myriad of dependencies...

I'm interested in the accuracy of our beliefs both as individuals and as #collectives

Ulrike Hahn
@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org

#Introduction

This account has been prompted by the #Twittermigration but only in the sense that I am hoping that there might be a great science community taking shape here: I never really felt drawn to Twitter for talking about my research, but I could see the great potential (among the shoutiness..) during Covid.

I work on human rationality. A lot of my research is about measuring argument quality. And, as a cognitive scientist, I dabble in #cognitive psychology, #philosophy, and #AI