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AI-juiced political microtargeting
Reasonable People #53 looking carefully at the claims in one study which uses generative AI to customise ads to personality type
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Tom Stafford
Propaganda is dangerous, but not because it is persuasive
Reasonable People #52: I pick at the claim that propaganda "doesn't work".
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Tom Stafford
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How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda?
Reasonable People #51: Bullet review of a new paper suggesting LLMs can create highly persuasive text and will supercharge covert propaganda campaigns.
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Tom Stafford
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January 2024

Pieces of the puzzle
Reasonable People #50: snippets on reason, bias and persuasion. And Tetris
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Tom Stafford
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December 2023

Complex problems and the rush to judgement
Reasonable People #49: Resisting the idea that the solution is obvious, while committing to good processes for getting there
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Tom Stafford
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October 2023

How do you fact-check a deep story?
Reasonable People #48: The dynamics of 'participatory disinformation' campaigns show the limits of trying to correct individual rumours
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Tom Stafford
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A new study puts another nail in the coffin of "fake news"
Reasonable People #47: Mainstream stories have the lion's share of the impact on people's attitudes to the covid vaccine, shows analysis of massive…
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Tom Stafford
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Fragments of reason
Reasonable People #46 some new things which caught my eye
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Tom Stafford

September 2023

Upcoming talks x2
Possibility Studies Network (2pm, Wednesday, 6th of Sept) and Consciousness Perspectives Forum (7.30pm, Monday, 18th of Sept)
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Tom Stafford

August 2023

Radiation-laced chapatis as a test case for defining Conspiracy Theories
Reasonable People #45: When is news obviously fake? And can Conspiracy Theories be defined, or is the term just one of abuse?
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Tom Stafford
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Conspiracy Theories are propaganda for deep beliefs
Reasonable People #44: Quassim Cassam's account of Conspiracy Theories, and what it means for how to respond to them.
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July 2023

Anyone for metascience?
Reasonable People #43: metascience, aka. metaresearch aka research on research, is taking up a lot of my recent attention.
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Tom Stafford
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