Colin Camerer
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Colin Camerer
@cfcamerer.bsky.social
Dad, behavioral and neuroeconomist, sometimes good trouble
Terrific work by sarahsebo.com Univ Chicago: Children reading aloud are less anxious reading to a robot (vs person)
#CHIBE2025

hri.cs.uchicago.edu/publications...
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Here is the Epstein "20yo girlfriend, that he later "gave to Donald"?

Celine Midelfart
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
What day will the government shutdown end? Nov 12 is 56%

Ask prediction markets (L) not MSM (WaPo, NYTimes, both on R)
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Guarantee that Trump thinks 401ks are exactly the same as stocks (or automatically put into stocks)

60M 401k holders.
In 2018, 401ks were 63% in equities
(74% for those in their 20s, 52% in their 60s)

www.ici.org/faqs/faq/401...
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Plus a great post on all good news to celebrate
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Nightmare situation at Soc Sec

“Vivian Mercer, a 64-year-old D.C. resident, can still hear the hold music ringing in her ears when she thinks about it. She and her lawyer at Legal Counsel for the Elderly estimate that they have spent 20 hours on the phone trying to get her back pay”
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
ICYMI CRISPR gene-editing saved the life of an infant in ICU (baby KJ) w a rare urea disease.

Key is that CHOP docs had been practicing for 2 years, waiting for the ideal patient

www.chop.edu/centers-prog...
October 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Game theory: messy UCLA-Govt agreement includes a Resolution Monitor. Jointly chosen by the 2 parties…

but if they don’t agree in 60 days, hard-right Asst AG Hameet Dhillon will pick. Assuming low time costs, she‘ll get her pick.
Will be an ideologue who hates colleges

ucop.edu/communicatio...
October 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Heart was an inspired choice to cover “Stairway” at Led Zeppelin Kennedy Center honors 2014. Better times all around.
Yo-Yo Ma dug it.

Robert Plant holding back tears

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxO...
October 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
WaPo fails.
Massive 7M worldwide No Kings rallies is the #5 story, between vax advice and a dangerous oboist
October 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
@wired.com hits it out of the park again. One cybertruck owner spent $50k getting built out for a difficult off-road race. Then struggled mightily….but found God after the Big Sluice.

So he’s got that going for him. IYKYK
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Judge is not going to be happy with this amended nuisance of a suit against NYTimes. Full of the usual bluster and no facts. It boils down to: ‘Not saying good things about me is defamation’

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Clever Uber micro-innovation-- hold up phone with a color screen so driver can spot you more easily
October 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Bari Weiss is one of those people with modicum of talent and a ferocious amount of ambition, who sometimes get ahead
See J Lo, Madonna (desperate to be a movie star), Elizabeth Holmes. Jimmy Fallon
October 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A piece of the mugshot suit is allegedly in the dial 🤔😳
October 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
These skirmishes will only get worse and more violent, as The Cold Men are not trained to de-escalate. Notice the woman grabbing an ICEy arm
October 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Alice Xia, Brown G5 PhD student, studies strategic gossiping in social networks (lab and field) #CISE2025

www.feldmanhalllab.com/people
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Prof Caroline Charpentier (@caltech postdoc) shows Bayesian model evidence about advice-taking and confirmation bias
sldlab.umd.edu

#CISE2025
October 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Prof Jennifer Bussell discovered that rodents *really* like an informational heads-up about how much water they'll get soon. Even give up a large of % water for this information.

PS informational choice is well predicted from OFC recording #CISE2025 jenniferbussell.org/cv/
October 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
At #CISE2025 Jordan Wylie is discussing curiosity about moral and immoral folks (eg Netflix) moralitylab.bc.edu/people/alumn...
October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Tour de force talk decomposing aspects of novelty, surprise, info gain in multi-state tasks by @modirshanechi.bsky.social

Novelty-seeking (visit new states) is common...even when its suboptimal
#CISE2025
October 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
George Loewenstein summarizing 30 yrs of brilliant studies on curiosity and desire for information (or a desire to not know, eg likely bad news) #CISE2025 at Brown Univ
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Important interview with Kevin Hall, who did the best-ever RCT on ultra-processed food
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Medbed nonsense is really out there, Dog picture— excuse me, a “canine subject”— is from one of Tesla Biohealing’s “research reports”

www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
September 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
person scrubbing Banksy mural in UK is covered up head to toe like an ICE goon, giving Banksy a bonus point

www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
September 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM