Hélie Bazin
@heliebazin.bsky.social
PhD Student in philosophy of AI - Sorbonne Cluster for Artificial Intelligence
https://www.helie-bazin.com
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We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...
arxiv.org
August 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
Reposted by Hélie Bazin
Such a readable and fascinating argument by @jessiemunton.bsky.social of @cambridgephilos.bsky.social To see a visual object is to see how it could be, not just how it is. #openaccess #philsky
Can we perceive modal properties?
Can we see only how things actually are, or are we also able to see how things could be? Much work in philosophy of perception assumes that our visual perceptual experience is restricted to the actua....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Such a readable and fascinating argument by @jessiemunton.bsky.social of @cambridgephilos.bsky.social To see a visual object is to see how it could be, not just how it is. #openaccess #philsky
Reposted by Hélie Bazin
Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo!
Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3
Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3
Juan Murillo Vargas, How Language-Like is the Language of Thought? - PhilPapers
The language of thought hypothesis (LoTH) claims that thoughts are underpinned by language-like vehicles. A central motivation is that there is a relevant similarity between language and thought expla...
philpapers.org
July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo!
Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3
Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3