Ben Ansell

benansell.bsky.social

02 December 2025 23:01

Not that I don’t love me a survey experiment but that can’t be the limit of our contribution to the world. And nor can a few extra RCTs or natural experiments.

Josh McCrain

joshmccrain.bsky.social

21 November 2025 02:42

Definitely the worst response to this by far is "why would you study public opinion anyway just talk to people" I mean jfc

Zander Furnas

alexanderfurnas.com

20 November 2025 19:38

i found it, but i don't understand why the PNAS doi link is dead. Seems like some embargo timing thing got fucked up

Andrew Gordon

andrewgordon.bsky.social

20 November 2025 19:38

Agreed, its a stark warning, and should be a call-to-arms in terms of the community finding ways to detect such bots. Keen to work together with anyone who's interested to figure that out

Josh McCrain

joshmccrain.bsky.social

20 November 2025 19:38

the scale fully depends on how you throttle, i guess. but yes, all valid points. but the "cost" to making a bot is extremely low in terms of time, and this will get increasingly easier moving forward especially as agent-based AIs become more prevalent