Yet another paper showing dual-minded #LLMs (intuitive + reflective) can improve accuracy-cost tradeoffs: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.12329

As I argue in #StrategicReflectivism, pragmatic switching between the two modes is key to intelligent systems: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390166382

Do people diagnosed with #autism respond differently to moral dilemmas?

In MINORS, sacrificial harm waned with age, more slowly in the ASD group: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05795-6

In ADULTS, decisions were similar: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112889

Does thinking aloud disrupt reasoning?

We didn't find effects on a verbal reflection test (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37103261), but Shealy et al. found effects on word count, completion time, and DLPFC activity during a design task (N = 50).

https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2023.87

Does asking people to justify their answer improve subsequent answers?

In two experiments (N > 300), students asked to justify their answers performed better on multiple choices immediately afterward (and maybe even 48 hours later).

https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15040477

Does awareness of intuition's fallibility help people avoid faulty intuitions?

#Teaching students #DualProcessTheory didn't help them avoid faulty intuitions about #physics problems.

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.21.010135

why am I not surprised? #cogsci #devpsy #psychscisky #blackinstem
https://wordinblack.com/2025/04/psych-association-under-pressure-ends-diversity-requirements/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Crisis%20to%20Care%3A%205%20Charts%20on%20Black%20Maternal%20Health%20Progress&utm_campaign=Health%20newsletter%204%2016
#AmericanPsychologicalAssociation #DiversityInRecruitment #DiversityEquityInclusion #PostgraduatePrograms #PoliticalPressure
#InclusionMatters

Wow! #QualiService could be a great resource!

It wasn't obvious to me how to find the transcripts for these doctor-patient interaction data from 4 countries, but if such transcripts are accessible, that's GREAT!

https://www.qualiservice.org/en/qsearch.html?q=diagnosis

Jon Baron shared Peter Wakker's annotated bibliography of #decisionTheory

> 9000 entries!

DocX http://personal.eur.nl/wakker/refs/webrfrncs.docx

PDF http://personal.eur.nl/wakker/refs/webrfrncs.pdf

BibTeX (no annotations, I merged redundancies) https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vbkki82h62ydq0fol1g8d/Decision-Theory.bib?rlkey=84m8zx3tyaa4uy6p0zptkybnx&st=qx9myebb&dl=0

In Religious Studies: Analytic #Atheism & Analytic Apostasy...

Steve Stich, Justin Sytsma, and I studied >70k people across the globe.

Apostates were more reflective thinkers.

That explained links between reflection and #religion.

#Preprint + audio: https://byrdnick.com/archives/28471/upon-reflection-ep-14-analytic-atheism-analytic-apostasy-across-cultures

The final typeset version is also freely available (#openAccess) via #CambridgeUP; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412525000198

Can #AI improve #healthcare?

#ambientListening apps that take notes during appointments seemed to improve efficiency and make clinicians' jobs easier.

But it didn't seem to increase clinicians' confidence in the #LLM tool.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.60637

Getting ready for first meeting of my #philAI seminar this year. In the first meeting I discuss brain anatomy and modularity and the explanatory project of classic AI (GOFAI) as “synthetic approach to #cogsci”.

Some arguments and evidence suggest that intuitions about some philosophical thought experiments are remarkably stable.

Wu et al replicate this for one case (Exp 1), but find arguments changed people's conclusions about 10 cases (Exp 2).

https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2456570

#socialMedia posts about #ADHD seemed to cause #availabilityBias about post quality and even people's self #diagnosis.

#Chatbot #symptom checkers (CSCs) that prompted #reflection on evidence or counterfactuals mitigated the #bias.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.15028

Judges' asylum decisions vary wildly, violating a "prerequisite for ...legal coherence—to 'treat like cases alike."

This paper shows how #AI and #algorithms can "instantiate a reasonable approximation of a coherence theory of #truth":

https://osf.io/4tjz5_v1

Recognizing the fallibilities of #ChatGPT was most reliably predicted by

(a) better performance on a reflection test

(b) more self-reported prioritization of arguments and evidence (over myside political #bias)

in a study of 999 students: https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2025.2454448

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Colour https://lobste.rs/s/ibfmsg #art #cogsci #graphics
https://hg2dc.com/

Thirty years ago, I published my PhD dissertation on Letter Spirit --- all about creativity, AI, and cognitive science. My advisor was Doug Hofstadter. Last week I was asked to give a keynote talk about that work in France. The talk was captured in video.
#AI #cogsci #creativity #typography

https://berryvilleiml.com/2025/02/26/revisiting-letter-spirit-thirty-years-later/

New on 'Stuff': Book Review - Taming Silicon Valley #cs
#cogsci
#neural-networks
#transformers
#llms
#llm
#book-review
#english
#️️️️️ https://stuff.graves.cl/posts/2025-03-01_17_03-book-review-taming-silicon-valley.html

Do people vacillate more before or after they can decide?

In this paper, most vacillations occurred before people could decide about logic or moral problems, except maybe for moral dilemmas.

Check out the #processTracing method: https://doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2024.15

The talk that I gave about Letter Spirit (my 30 year old thesis project) in France last week has been posted as a video. #AI #ML #cogsci #hofstadter #creativity #design #typography

ML/AI, Typographic Design, and the Four “I”s

During this talk I will touch on Intuition, Insight, and Inspiration. First I will set the context by introducing the Letter Spirit project and its microdomain — work I published exactly 30 years ago as a Ph.D. student of Doug Hofstadter’s...

https://berryvilleiml.com/2025/02/26/revisiting-letter-spirit-thirty-years-later/