Ben Radford

Source: Havana Syndrome investigation is "a massive CIA cover-up" | 60 Minutes YouTube video by 60 Minutes

Bonkers

My "the Department of D̶e̶f̶e̶n̶s̶e̶War is not at war" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

I'm real bullish on AI capabilities. It's humans I'm skeptical of: I'm really worried about careless use of AI which is basically all I've seen so far

Counterpoint: Claude will make mediocre scientists more productive and excellent scientists who want to do novel work relatively less productive

Can you say more? Do you think AI increases the value of in-person relative to MOOCs?

For example: I've reviewed complete jibberish papers now, submitted by serious scholars, who just didn't adequately vet whatever Claude gave them. If they can't do it, there's no hope for Joe B.A.

Now everyone can use Claude to be the next Avi Loeb...

I think this is correct but I think it will also make it much much harder for non-experts to assess expertise. I mean we already struggle with this ("OMG Dr. Oz says...") and it's only going to get worse. Convince your MBA boss that a solid PhD >> Claude 🤷🏼

Banana pudding is so much better than the sum of it's parts

"AI isn't ready to write a paper on its own yet - it's just not a very good writer. But I let it do all my coding and analysis for me it's great at that."

whichever part of writing a paper that you think AI can do better than humans is just the part of writing a paper that you are the worst at send tweet

The top scorer for Fri, Feb 20, 2026, UTC is: @benradford.bsky.social! They scored 360 points for #Wordle 1707 and solved it on row 1! That's better than 2,396 (~100%) other users. Never give up!

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Finally

Did I miss something?

How so? If someone contributed language to the manuscript, they should be listed as an author, no?

Yikes 😬

Literally just heard someone on the phone in the elevator say "I'm calling to let senator fetterman know I'm alarmed and concerned..."

Baby bok choi is the cutest vegetable

When the US military said it could fight simultaneous major wars on two fronts, who'd have thought those would be against Iran and Greenland?

Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome | CNN Politics The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting sp...

Talk about an interesting conspiracy/mystery. holy cow

www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p...

Sorry scientists, but coding is part of the learning process and offloading it to LLMs is equivalent to reading a paper, not writing one

OMG yes I've been saying this! I would pay so much for an email service that charges the sender $0.05 per incoming message

Truncated or Censored Data

Is this not a right censored duration model problem? mc-stan.org/docs/stan-us...

Oops I meant Calley

I think soldiers under Callum were charged but not convicted for Mai Lai

Very excited that my paper with @katakeith.bsky.social is now out in @polanalysis.bsky.social. We investigate whether LLMs actually follow the instructions/definitions provided in codebooks, propose some diagnostics, and release a new evaluation dataset.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

what are the most widely read digital newspapers by web traffic across the US and EU? do you know of any current repositories?

NASA maybe finding life on Mars doesn't even make the cut, huh?

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