Andrea Lathrop
@cabernet.bsky.social
Wine... Cognitive Science... Photography... tech stuff... former Aslin Lab (Master's) and Eppler Lab (with Jackie Gibson emeritus) so I'm a weird mix of Gibsonian affordances, visual statistical learning and anticipatory eye movements. Sometimes academic.
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Andrea Lathrop
@cabernet.bsky.social
· Sep 27
Here are a few more from the same series (📷 credit: myself, Post Malone sound check, New Year's Rockin' Eve, Dec 31, 2019):
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I resent that Silicon Valley has made certain topics in political science relevant.
I resent that Silicon Valley took the joy out of Cognitive Science.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I resent that Silicon Valley has made certain topics in political science relevant.
I resent that Silicon Valley took the joy out of Cognitive Science.
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I resent that Silicon Valley took the joy out of Cognitive Science.
We are so screwed.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
We are so screwed.
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I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
jesspiper.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
Surrounded by persons who think that yelling louder and getting the other person to shut up means you've won the argument.
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Surrounded by persons who think that yelling louder and getting the other person to shut up means you've won the argument.
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
Senator @welch.senate.gov also voted 'no' tonight, so that's both of my senators! Thank You! ❤️
I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
LIVE: I Won't Support Doubling Health Care Premiums
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Senator @welch.senate.gov also voted 'no' tonight, so that's both of my senators! Thank You! ❤️
❤️
I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
LIVE: I Won't Support Doubling Health Care Premiums
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
❤️
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
I think part of it is that many people feel helpless to do anything about what is going on, and posting feels like you've done something about it. Like holding a little protest sign without going outside.
Social media is a void that constantly whispers "talk about politics"
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I think part of it is that many people feel helpless to do anything about what is going on, and posting feels like you've done something about it. Like holding a little protest sign without going outside.
I need to move back to NYC so I can go to Luddite tribunals.
What a blast putting big tech on trial with these guys and the 150+ wonderful humans who packed into the Starr Barr last night to talk extractive AI, surveillance, labor—and to smash the machinery hurtful to commonality.
Huge thanks to everyone who made the 2nd NYC Luddite tribunal such a success.
Huge thanks to everyone who made the 2nd NYC Luddite tribunal such a success.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I need to move back to NYC so I can go to Luddite tribunals.
"Abundance for All*"
*who build a business around our API
*who build a business around our API
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Abundance for All*"
*who build a business around our API
*who build a business around our API
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Beautiful pre-sunrise over Queens
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Beautiful pre-sunrise over Queens
I couldn't think of anything witty enough to write on those Zohran font campaign signs being memed. I don't think most of the people posting them did, either.
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I couldn't think of anything witty enough to write on those Zohran font campaign signs being memed. I don't think most of the people posting them did, either.
Just overheard someone say that with return-to-office orders, they now go in 3 days per week, and what happens on those days is they all sit at their desks and meet on Teams. With people at the other desks. In the same open plan office.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just overheard someone say that with return-to-office orders, they now go in 3 days per week, and what happens on those days is they all sit at their desks and meet on Teams. With people at the other desks. In the same open plan office.
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If your annual income is $100,000 (a good salary by European standards), then you'd earn a million dollars in ten years. But to earn a trillion dollars, you'd need to work for ten million years--which is about 30 times longer than our species has existed.
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If your annual income is $100,000 (a good salary by European standards), then you'd earn a million dollars in ten years. But to earn a trillion dollars, you'd need to work for ten million years--which is about 30 times longer than our species has existed.
This is also how Vermont works.
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is also how Vermont works.
High school football games are long. (Says the chronic baseball fan.)
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 AM
High school football games are long. (Says the chronic baseball fan.)
Why?
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Why?
My nephew's semifinal football game is tonight, after dark, 41°F and chance of rain. I am going to wear so many layers, and still be so cold, and rained on.
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My nephew's semifinal football game is tonight, after dark, 41°F and chance of rain. I am going to wear so many layers, and still be so cold, and rained on.
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LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
I am not a violent person, but I do think we could solve a few current problems by slapping some people with fish.
Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”?
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I am not a violent person, but I do think we could solve a few current problems by slapping some people with fish.
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“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
