Sander Van de Cruys
@sandervdc
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Like most psychologists I like people, in theory.
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Joined June 2010
💡 Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review. With stellar co-authors @JoBervoets @stephen_gadsby @DavidGijbelsUA @KPoels See below for a thread. https://t.co/Egjuwu9azL
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📢New publication! Our research on strategies to correct vaccine misinformation on social media🧬📱is out now in @SciReports ! 🔗
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Strategies to correct vaccine misinformation on social media for pregnant women and the impact of vaccine skepticism
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@SciReports 🙌Huge thanks to my supportive co-authors: @sandervdc , Larissa De Brabandere, @KirstenMaertens & @KPoels ! 🤗Please share with anyone interested in #HealthComm, #Misinformation, #ScienceCommunication, or #VaccineResearch!
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New post on the seductions of AI conversations: Cold humans and Warm machines. Link below.
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How come grant funding decisions are so biased and random given that reviewers & panel are trying their best to do the right thing? There's just no signal to detect. You can't predict what science will be important without doing it. All you can get is noise and unconscious bias.
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If you want to make a dent into rates of mental health problems, make sure people have a roof over their heads, health insurance coverage, enough food to eat. Let's start there. And let's not forget Kendler: "You would not explain hypertension at the level of quarks".
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You’d think that conspiracy theorists are gullible, shallow thinkers. But you’d be wrong, argue @sjgadsby and @sandervdc—people who endorse and spread mad theories are intelligent, but they’re drawn (a bit too much) to the intoxicating lure of discovery: https://t.co/lj425UB7E1
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I discuss (favourably) this hypothesis in my forthcoming book on digital technopanics.
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"A relevant distinction is between perspective-taking and perspective-getting – don’t just try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes (perspective-taking); genuinely enquire about how they see the world (perspective-getting)."
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Uncovering genuine secrets of nature and delusional conspiracy theories can subjectively feel the same (‘aha’).
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RL researchers will never "solve" the intrinsic reward problem--high-dimensional rewards or value functions will never be tenable as a theory. You can only respond to how things in the world (externally, internally) impact the structure of what you are, which is high-dimensional.
all intelligent life on earth was formed without any extrinsic reward signal and yet you want to do reinforcement learning. unbelievable
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“Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly.” My essay on why those looking to create/improve intellectual institutions need to take Rux's rule into account -- with loads of references to Katalin Kariko. https://t.co/BIp2Zu426J
writingruxandrabio.com
A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously
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Apparently, the secret to fair funding decisions is... skipping the proposals altogether. Who knew all that effort was optional? "We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact their proposal rankings."
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Becoming deeply impatient with people who have millions flowing into their academic institutes producing sub-par work
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Are we ultimately motivated by surmountable obstacles? Interesting long read by @sandervdc: https://t.co/ZXy2abPz2W HT @danwiliiamsphil
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"There is no reward" is a new Substack on which @JoBervoets and I take turns in writing. More to come:
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Responding to views by @danwilliamsphil @DavidPinsof @no_reward_for_u @page_eco Still finding my voice. Academic detox and all. Inspired by writings by @erikphoel @a_m_mastroianni @RogersBacon1 Bear with me 😅
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