Nostr notes by Benjamin Paassen

I agree with that. One sometimes also can hear/read/see how ...

2026-03-05T09:59:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…77tu
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I agree with that. One sometimes also can hear/read/see how scientists try to make the role they are currently taking more explicit - but it is still imperfect, I feel, and lines can be blurry.

For myself, I find it at least somewhat helpful to think of ...

2026-03-05T09:53:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…gf7u
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For myself, I find it at least somewhat helpful to think of science as informing us about the consequences (including uncertainty estimates, ranges, etc.) of political decisions but politics has to make the decision itself. In that sense, science is "apolitical" or "neutral". But a lot of political actors try to occlude/mislead about the consequences of their political program. And in such cases, I think, science has to take a clear stance in opposition.

But there are also plenty of criticisms. Empirically, we know ...

2025-08-12T15:09:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…dmt2
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But there are also plenty of criticisms. Empirically, we know that LLMs are biased (in different ways than humans), their answers vary much less compared to human answers, and they make mistakes that humans wouldn't make. (5/12)

Some papers claim that. Dillion et al. (2023) let LLMs respond to ...

2025-08-12T15:09:11Z

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Some papers claim that. Dillion et al. (2023) let LLMs respond to morality questions and they did indeed respond like average humans. Binz et al. (2025) fine-tuned an LLM to respond like humans to psych questions. (4/12)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.04.008

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09215-4

LLMs as participants can only work if LLMs really respond like ...

2025-08-12T15:08:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…57m2
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LLMs as participants can only work if LLMs really respond like humans to psychological questions. Do they? (3/12)

Our starting point is a trend in psychology: Recruiting human ...

2025-08-12T15:08:10Z

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Our starting point is a trend in psychology: Recruiting human participants for psychological studies is a lot of effort and expensive. Wouldn't it be great if we could just use LLMs as participants, instead? N = 1000 for just a few dollars. (2/12)

Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. ...

2025-08-12T15:08:06Z

Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. That's the title of our new paper, available as preprint today (1/12):

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950