Archive - Reasonable People

The truth about digital propaganda

Reasonable People #55: Our piece in New Scientist bring evidence to worries about online manipulation

Sep 1 •

August 2024

Pathologies of collective life

Reasonable People #54 : Two phenomena which derail useful meetings, and thoughts on how to tame them.

Aug 5 •

March 2024

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

Mar 26 •

Propaganda is dangerous, but not because it is persuasive

Reasonable People #52: I pick at the claim that propaganda "doesn't work".

Mar 11 •

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.

Mar 2 •

January 2024

Pieces of the puzzle

Reasonable People #50: snippets on reason, bias and persuasion. And Tetris

Jan 6 •

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

Dec 28, 2023 •

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

Oct 26, 2023 •

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…

Oct 22, 2023 •

Fragments of reason

Reasonable People #46 some new things which caught my eye

Oct 7, 2023 •

September 2023

Upcoming talks x2

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

Sep 4, 2023 •

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?

Aug 22, 2023 •

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