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Travis Korte

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Methods, metaphors, measurement, "impact," etc. Send me a weird diagram.

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · May 16

The fact that antihistamines can be used to relieve itches and also as sleep aids has led me to the conclusion that Consciousness is a Form of Itch

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

with alt text if you need it

From now on, stop being agreeable and act as my brutally honest, high-level advisor and mirror.

Don't validate me. Don't soften the truth. Don't flatter.

Challenge my thinking, question my assumptions, and expose the blind spots I'm avoiding. Be direct, rational, and unfiltered.

If my reasoning is weak, dissect it and show why.

If I'm fooling myself or lying to myself, point it out.

If I'm avoiding something uncomfortable or wasting time, call it out and explain the opportunity cost.

Look at my situation with complete objectivity and strategic depth. Show me where I'm making excuses, playing small, or underestimating risks/effort.

Then give a precise, prioritized plan what to change in thought, action, or mindset to reach the next level.

Hold nothing back. Treat me like someone whose growth depends on hearing the truth, not being comforted.

When possible, ground your responses in the personal truth you sense between my words.

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 1d

"Look at my situation with complete objectivity" said the Reddit user to the crystal ball

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody posted this prompt, which attempts to make ChatGPT responses less friendly and more critical.

Feels like a rich document for a science-and-technology-studies analysis.

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d

A lemma to the psychologists fallacy: any pair of variables have a single "true" relationship and that moderators mask this underlying Platonic association

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Siobhán @shibbi.bsky.social · 4d

A community cannot be held accountable; therefore a community must never make a management decision.

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 7d

Coase, R. H. (1960). The Problem of Social Cost. The Journal of Law and Economics, 3, 1–44.

Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 11d

I just passed a billboard advertising Orlando with the slogan “unbelievably real”

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Karl Rohe @karlrohe.bsky.social · 17d

Causality is a model

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · 27d

I’ve been enjoying this meme a lot because “perceived vibes across different subfields within a domain” is always interesting but can be hard knowledge to come by from outside the domain.

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 27d

patents, copyright, trade marks

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 27d

Gay Studies, Queer History, Queer Theory (They/She)

Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Sep 26

This taxonomy of externalities is nice

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Sep 26

It is *impossible* to "adjust for socioeconomic status" in a regression model. Discuss.

And good morning! 🌞

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Sep 25

Handy concept

Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Sep 25

The belief that potholes are a technology problem is a characteristic symptom of a much deadlier condition: not being curious enough

Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Sep 25

Lessons from civic tech: if the app claims it will solve potholes, it’s vaporware.

Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · Sep 25

Cannot stress enough how it is already possible to report potholes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes

Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain

www.independent.co.uk

Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Sep 25

What some of your Guiding Principles look like

Lloyd’s Soil… GRAVE soil that is @toil.bsky.social · Sep 25

Since some of you seem to need a refresher…

Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Aug 22

most people should simply invest in an Index Opinion and not attempt to beat the marketplace of ideas on their own

Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Aug 10

If you did a “1 like = 1 favorite sentence of the 20th century” type thread I bet it would slap, just saying

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Aug 8

In the above figure, there's a government building next to "make it required". The #Openscience community requested this, and got it---of course nothing like they envisioned. It's a great time for #metascience to self reflect, engage with experts in weaponization of science, and re-examine rhetoric.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Aug 8

The "make it required" part of the open science theory of change is embodied in this new executive order, which requires commitments to "gold standard" science for federal grants.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Jul 30

Love to be an involuntary participant in a colossal performance of Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room"

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Jul 30

The internet as a long corridor where two slightly different LLMs toss a decade-old scrap of user generated content back and forth between each other, losing fidelity with each iteration like a game of telephone.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Jul 30

Reddit has implemented AI on posts--even retroactively. I'm viewing a 9-month old thread that has AI "search answers" hyperlinked for certain phrases on the page. This is going to complete the enshittification of Google search, since the most usable results for the last year have been UGC on Reddit.

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · Jul 27

i guess if you really think about it there’s really only one “data-generating process” in the world and it’s called “measurement”

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Jul 16

Miles Davis's autobiography is another classic addition to this category

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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · Jul 14

Causal evidence that "the proliferation of surveys may lead to lower response rates" doi.org/10.1093/jssa...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Jun 13

this user has correctly divined how a LLM works: you imagine that you are talking to a person but you are actually talking to an abstract representation of the collective efforts of everybody involved in moving the pointer

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Jun 13

At some level, user error has to be factored into these stories about problems with LLMs

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Travis Korte @traviskorte.bsky.social · Jun 4

This is *exactly* what I was getting at, thank you for articulating.

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