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Shared emphasis Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Research 6d ago
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LLMs persuade conspiracy theory beliefs

Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies

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Cat Hicks Tom Costello
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Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“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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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

arxiv.org

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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…”

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Established AI research Research 7d ago
developer cognitive load GenAI paper

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

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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…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

GitHub - DrCatHicks/informed-patient: A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions | Cat Hicks, PhD

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“Longer reflection on how /informed-patient played a role in the imaging I got yesterday. This is more mundane than a miracle cure or a long-missed diagnosis. Yet it is in these mundane pieces of information access that I see great, currently underexplored, …”

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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

GitHub - DrCatHicks/informed-patient: A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions | Cat Hicks, PhD

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“Longer reflection on how /informed-patient played a role in the imaging I got yesterday. This is more mundane than a miracle cure or a long-missed diagnosis. Yet it is in these mundane pieces of information access that I see great, currently underexplored, …”

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9 experts · 63 posts · 1d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
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 · 2d ago
angela zhou Cat Hicks lastpositivist.bsky.social Colin tweety fish Matt Darling
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 · 34 posts · 2d ago
Cat Hicks tweety fish Rafael M Batista
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Cat Hicks: But what it links is just a simulation paper hah: "We will do this by constructing a formal model of an ideal Bayesian user who interacts with a sycophantic chatbot, and simulating their interactio…
Cat Hicks: this piece says ai psychosis is a "real documented phenomenon" I was like, what?? because I pay a lot of attention to the clinical lit on this
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