Nick Franklin

Maybe you could try better jokes

“VP” at an investment bank is a mid career position, and the typical bank will have thousands of them.

Right, otherwise we’re in “no true Scotsman” territory

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.

The best write up on the state of AI in a while, from James Somers, with input from my Princeton colleagues Ken Norman, Uri Hasson, Jon Cohen, and many others. Coding with LLMs was a striking moment for me too www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Super interesting work

That makes me feel much better about my password, “correcthorsebatterystaple”

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Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Now I just need an AI that will tell me overly long, very confident analyses about how whales are in fact fish. I feel like we’re close on this one

I guess that’s more Irish

Does the new deal count?

And that strikes me as a shame. Even if we only want a place for scientific discourse or political coalition building, that necessarily involves swapping jokes, posting pictures, etc

I’ve mostly disengaged from social media over the last few years, but one of the things that strikes me about Bluesky is how it doesn’t feel like a community — everything is very, very serious

These days, I’m happy when there’s a methods section

You’ve seen error bars in a machine learning paper?

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We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

So proud of my alma mater! Awesome.

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Don’t let anyone tell you this technology doesn’t work

It is faster to sit around and wait for the AI to write my code, but man, I’m just starring at my phone all day now

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I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

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Pretty proud of our Andrew Liu's work on Flash-IPA, a hardware efficient geometric attention mechanism, which was accepted to this years #NeurIPS openreview.net/forum?id=gKs...

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I don’t like that I had to look this up

Or worse, they know both and are just really cynical

You are also assuming they are motivated to keep it a secret, which, maybe

In fairness, the steel-man argument that LLMs are exactly equivalent to human cognition is worth making! It’s a good, (easily?) falsifiable hypothesis

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