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Multiple readings Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Cat Hicks
“Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...” evidence ↗
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Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Hypervisible : 🤷🏿‍♂️
evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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Established Models & releases Research 20d ago
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LLMs persuade conspiracy theory beliefs

Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Cat Hicks, Tom Costello
“There is really interesting stuff on this emerging on both sides (& same authors!) in persuasion psych academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... arxiv.org/abs/2601.05050” evidence ↗
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Cat Hicks Tom Costello
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“There is really interesting stuff on this emerging on both sides (& same authors!) in persuasion psych academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... arxiv.org/abs/2601.05050”

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Cat Hicks
“There are many many many studies on this at this point. I've enjoyed Costello & Pennycook etc which have found persuasion both towards beliefs we'd consider positive but ALSO persuasion toward conspiracy osf.io/preprints/ps... osf.io/preprints/ps... arxiv.o…” evidence ↗
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“There are many many many studies on this at this point. I've enjoyed Costello & Pennycook etc which have found persuasion both towards beliefs we'd consider positive but ALSO persuasion toward conspiracy osf.io/preprints/ps... osf.io/preprints/ps... arxiv.o…”

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developer cognitive load GenAI paper

Beyond Productivity: Measuring Developers' Cognitive Load During GenAI-Supported Software Development

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Cat Hicks
“This is finally starting to show up in software research, as in: arxiv.org/abs/2609.37645 I have a lot of qs about these methods though. This is kind of an example of a sort of paper in software that gets to conclusions I share, but where the methods feel r…” evidence ↗
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“This is finally starting to show up in software research, as in: arxiv.org/abs/2609.37645 I have a lot of qs about these methods though. This is kind of an example of a sort of paper in software that gets to conclusions I share, but where the methods feel r…”

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9 experts · 63 posts · 15d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
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“This view of human tasks is quite narrow. One of my tasks this week was helping my dad understand his cancer treatment. When I saved time finding the right evidence for his particular protocol rath…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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6 experts · 34 posts · 16d ago
angela zhou Cat Hicks lastpositivist.bsky.social Colin tweety fish Matt Darling
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“This is about asking from the weights.” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Colin: I don’t understand why people think this isn’t the most obvious question in the world. No, of course not. You don’t know what the distribution of responses will be; that’s why you do the survey.
Matt Darling: I do think there's a case for doing this sort of thing because it's cheap - especially if you are just testing questions before a real survey.
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3 experts · 21 posts · 12d ago
Cat Hicks tweety fish austin
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“'if it bleeds, it leads' but for arxiv preprints?” evidence ↗
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Cat Hicks: What must it be like to get this much press for causing unmotivated participant dropout on Prolific
austin: 'if it bleeds, it leads' but for arxiv preprints?
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3 experts · 10 posts · 12d ago
Cat Hicks rev. howard arson Matt Darling
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“the experimental design is: you make $3 unconditionally on an ungraded test but, if you were assigned to the AI group, it is removed in what looks like an error 2/3 of the way through. i suppose th…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
rev. howard arson: the experimental design is: you make $3 unconditionally on an ungraded test but, if you were assigned to the AI group, it is removed in what looks like an error 2/3 of the way through. i suppose th…
Matt Darling: It's totally reasonable as a sort of mechanism paper - if they didn't find an effect that would be super surprising! But I don't think much reason to think it's externally valid to The World.
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