Rob Brooks
@Brooks_Rob
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Evolutionary biologist & author. What happens to #sex when evolved minds, old-fashioned #culture and new #tech collide? Read "Artificial Intimacy" out now.
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Joined August 2009
Artificial Intimacy - a book trailer for people who remember dial-up modems.
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The great Australian social media experiment. Another hot take, from a Gen-X dad who also studies the effects of technologies that tap our social impulses. https://t.co/aEBfyggrEL
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Australians Kids Now Free To Embark On Adventures To Find Dead Bodies Down By The Creek
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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As of midnight, Australia is the first country in the world to enforce a social media ban for children. This comes as social media platforms are forced to implement...
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The Good News Is That One Side Has Definitively Won The Missing Heritability Debate, reports Scott Alexander @slatestarcodex. Actually, the real debate was won long ago: heritability of intelligence is substantially above 0. There can't be an exact "correct" estimate, because
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Are animals and AI conscious? "The lesson? It’s possible for AI to behave as if conscious without being conscious." https://t.co/CNEv9tSaFZ via @ConversationEDU
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What matters for consciousness is not what you do, but how you do it.
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Is there a hotline for us to report really shonky facilitators and garbled pop-psych trainers? The waste of time and public money could solve global poverty!
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Artificial Intimacy News #11 is out. - @Anthropic gets some boundaries -for Claude’s welfare - Journalist road-tests those boundaries - Meta’s AI companion policy … falls short - Voice-based conversational AI seducing corporate America https://t.co/WADAdSWpEC
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Shadow AI thrives under punitive social evaluation - Fascinating study - HR context but relevant to student assessment and other professional contexts. "Results reveal a misalignment between well-intended transparency rules and user incentives" https://t.co/k6acdqsrB7
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Love Over Afterlife Some thoughts on why we grieve, and the problem of deciding which version of our beloved might live on
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Did I miss the memo that LinkedIn profile pics are meant to look like you're a Capitol spectator at The Hunger Games?
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Were any tweeps around in 1842 when Sydney became a city? Were people then already saying "Sydney nightlife isn't what it used to be?"
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Artificial Intimacy News #10 -Can virtual friendship survive an upgrade? - Parallels between AI and Ozempic - Extended minds in the era of gen-AI - Virtual friends vs teen mental health (again) - Would you be jealous if your lover used a sex robot?
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Would you be jealous if your partner had a sex robot?, https://t.co/PCmko1jV7Q
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People have always used tools to help them think. And they have always fretted about the consequences.
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Pretty cool piece of work by @GoogleDeepMind - inferring missing text and context from fragments of latin text. https://t.co/kEoJoiEadX
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Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.
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Is the gender equality paradox real? My long-promised commentary on the PNAS paper that argues it is a Simpson's paradox.
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