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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 15d

Sure, correlation does not mean causation, but that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting.
This site maps how a wide range of tastes and preferences correlate with personality traits (and vice versa), not all of which are unsurprising:

buff.ly/YwPu1TY

via @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · 15d

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · 19d

How to make an echo in your echo chamber sound even more like you?

"Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms"
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14434

"users can use [basic value] controls to architect feeds reflecting their desired values. [such] feeds diverge.. from engagement-driven feeds."

arxiv.org

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · 21d

AI doesn't take away your dirty work, AI redefines it.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Sep 9

Jinli Wu's paper is out. "The mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind or mentalist focus/orientation) and that behavior carries greater significance in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus/orientation).

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why the West Minds and the East Behaves: An Integrative Review of the Cultural Evolution of Mind–Behavior Orientations - Jinli Wu, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, 2025

One fundamental characteristic of humans is that we have both “exteriors” (i.e., behavior) and “interiors” (i.e., mental states). This distinction between the m...

journals.sagepub.com

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · 22d

In fact, we've been on a very similar track for years doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · 22d

Rethinking measurement invariance causally by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance.
A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation.
Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results

Rethinking measurement invariance causally

Measurement invariance is often touted as a necessary statistical prerequisite for group comparisons. Typically, when there is evidence against measur…

doi.org

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · 23d

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doi.org/10.1177/0022...

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25d

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · 23d

"war exposure significantly predicted increases in religiosity"... p = .034

doi.org/10.1080/1050...

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · Sep 11

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Sep 11

Arguably, the most annoying way to name your paper: make it a question which you don't answer in the paper.

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Sep 11

It's not around mainstream media, but right now in Serbia academics are blocked out of universities, and their students are beaten up by a police for just trying to keep up with their duties.

Video from the Department of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Suzavac i sukobi u Novom Sadu

YouTube video by Portal Mašina

www.youtube.com

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Sep 5

More and more positions like that (not just in the U.S.)

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Aug 26

A random paper, just—the art of science

"In preliminary analyses, ipsative value scores showed almost no association with the outcome measures, whereas the raw mean scores showed robust associations. The raw mean scores were therefore used..."

doi.org/10.1007/s109...

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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · Aug 14

New paper in Proceedings B, forcing us to rethink the canonical understanding of cultural differences in independent and interdependent agency.

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Aug 14

Decision-making preferences for intuition, deliberation, friends or crowds in independent and interdependent societies #ProcB #OpenAccess #Neuroscience #Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Aug 9

"the mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind focus) and behavior ... in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus)." @yuliacd.bsky.social

I like this idea very much; explains all that Western fuss about "being a good person".

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Jul 21

"Sage against the machine" —

is a behind-the-paywall title of a Hindustan Times article reviewing our paper ( doi.org/10.1038/s414...) on perception of wisdom in people across cultures (thanks to @igi.bsky.social )

there's a paywall but just in case
www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Jul 21

ok - might be sending all my *best* ideas there

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Jun 30

Just like the ego in Freudian theory acts as a negotiator between the id and the superego, personality is a battleground where culture collides with situational demands.

#nocontextdrops

Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Jun 23

Values are not what people *are* (hence the weak association with behavior)
Values are what people *aspire to be*

#nocontextdrops

Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Jun 21

Just a Cattell's box - good for teaching and reflecting on psychological data

Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Jun 21

I like Ellen Hamaker's articles, how very simple things such as a correlation coefficient may turn out so incomprehensibly complicated.

doi.org/10.1080/0027...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jun 6

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com · Jun 12

wow they reached inside the LLM and identified specific value-mandating neurons in a neuron net. Sounds like a neuroscience but with LLM's brains

arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17712