Dilip Soman 🇨🇦
@dilipsoman.bsky.social
Testing the waters, floating the trial balloons. Professing and researching. Author / editor of a few books, but claims to have no time to write book called "Its About Time"
All this while I've been thinking it's a mischievous rabbit!
February 9, 2026 at 8:58 PM
All this while I've been thinking it's a mischievous rabbit!
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A workshop on making events more equitable and inclusive. In-person only.
February 5, 2026 at 11:07 PM
A workshop on making events more equitable and inclusive. In-person only.
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AI deepfakes affect people even if they know the videos are fake: nice media coverage here of phys.org/news/2026-0... one of our recent studies. 1/2
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People are swayed by AI-generated videos even when they know they're fake, study shows
Generative deep learning models are artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can create texts, images, audio files, and videos for specific purposes, following instructions provided by human users. Over ...
phys.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:34 PM
AI deepfakes affect people even if they know the videos are fake: nice media coverage here of phys.org/news/2026-0... one of our recent studies. 1/2
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After jailing Imran Khan two years ago, Pakistan’s military establishment has tried to erase him from public life. @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social travelled to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to report on this bizarre effort to disappear the country’s most famous man.
www.equator.org/articles/the...
www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Hidden Imran • EQUATOR
The cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?
www.equator.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:25 PM
After jailing Imran Khan two years ago, Pakistan’s military establishment has tried to erase him from public life. @osmansamiuddin.bsky.social travelled to Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to report on this bizarre effort to disappear the country’s most famous man.
www.equator.org/articles/the...
www.equator.org/articles/the...
Paper by @avicgoldfarb et al examines how computers could be “bicycles for the mind” [← Steve Jobs] and leverage key human capability skills:
•implementation ability→substitute
•opportunity judgment→complement
•payoff judgment→nuanced & complex
buff.ly/27CdQUi
•implementation ability→substitute
•opportunity judgment→complement
•payoff judgment→nuanced & complex
buff.ly/27CdQUi
January 21, 2026 at 5:49 PM
I miss the days when we criticized Presidents for relative peccadillos like starting wars without evidence!
January 21, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I miss the days when we criticized Presidents for relative peccadillos like starting wars without evidence!
Last minute strategic pivot :-)
In the President's big speech at Davos, he keeps referring to America's need for Iceland. He came here to ask for Greenland.
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Last minute strategic pivot :-)
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Trump's Davos speech is an embarrassing ramble. America, humiliated.
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Trump's Davos speech is an embarrassing ramble. America, humiliated.
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This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Neat trial building on earlier work by @jiayingzhao.bsky.social and colleagues! @nealemahoney.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social
A new trial gave homeless people £2,000 to spend however they choose. What they spent the money on may surprise you.
Homeless people were given free money, no strings attached. Here's what happened
www.bigissue.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Neat trial building on earlier work by @jiayingzhao.bsky.social and colleagues! @nealemahoney.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @erikbryn.bsky.social @casssunstein.bsky.social
Saying that "on average, nudges [or insert any other intervention here] aren't very effective" is a bit like saying that "on average, vehicles are not very fast".
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Saying that "on average, nudges [or insert any other intervention here] aren't very effective" is a bit like saying that "on average, vehicles are not very fast".
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DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery
h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery
h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
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If you randomly select an option for this question, the probability that your answer is true will be
A. 0%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 25%
A. 0%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 25%
December 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
If you randomly select an option for this question, the probability that your answer is true will be
A. 0%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 25%
A. 0%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 25%
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Grumpy opinion:
Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.
Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Grumpy opinion:
Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.
Too many young development economists are working on behavioral econ questions that are unimportant for development. The topics are amenable to small experiments that can nail mechanisms and demonstrate smarts via a clever design. The profession over-rewards those attributes.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
Brilliant! abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
abcnews.go.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Brilliant! abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
I concur that the newest sludge in expense reimbursement is..... @joshgans.bsky.social @lisakramer.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I concur that the newest sludge in expense reimbursement is..... @joshgans.bsky.social @lisakramer.com
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"What if behavioral scientists could identify the relief of the behavioral landscape by working like cartographers?" @dilipsoman.bsky.social asks in his latest piece for Behavioral Scientist. Read it here: behavioralscientist.org/the-behavior...
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"What if behavioral scientists could identify the relief of the behavioral landscape by working like cartographers?" @dilipsoman.bsky.social asks in his latest piece for Behavioral Scientist. Read it here: behavioralscientist.org/the-behavior...
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Here is the full Reagan speech from the Reagan Presidential LIbrary that have the Americans so upset last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Here is the full Reagan speech from the Reagan Presidential LIbrary that have the Americans so upset last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
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“There’s almost no limit to what you can get people to do if you let them think it is their idea”
Jim Downey - former SNL writer
Jim Downey - former SNL writer
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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#JDM Vaguely remember paper showing that corporate transgressions should be punished with similar actions; e.g. better to punish a company that cuts a forest by getting them to plant trees rather than pay fine. Pointers to paper? @dggoldst.bsky.social @danielread.bsky.social @cfcamerer.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#JDM Vaguely remember paper showing that corporate transgressions should be punished with similar actions; e.g. better to punish a company that cuts a forest by getting them to plant trees rather than pay fine. Pointers to paper? @dggoldst.bsky.social @danielread.bsky.social @cfcamerer.bsky.social