Unfortunately it’s fake.

The slow pace of the peer review process is designed to ensure credibility and quality. It does not always succeed in its goals, but making papers available for immediate reading without review and bypassing these systems could have dire consequences for the integrity of future science.

Academia.edu also features a testimonial that worries me: “If I publish in a journal, it takes 2 years to come out, and 17 people read it. If I upload to Academia, 100 people read the paper in the first week.”
Hugh Richmond
University of California, Berkeley, English, Professor Emeritus

The promise of free PDFs is nice but I am skeptical of the direction literature search may take and what corporate investment may mean for publications in the future.

Stagnating at around 1% or below vs declining from 80% are pretty different things. The graph seems like a comparison meant to evoke a reaction based on visual scale. What does China look like today when the scales are matched?

All I think this can mean for “AI therapy” is that you’ll have worksheets like medicine.umich.edu/sites/defaul... that can talk back to you to an extent. Which is helpful, sure! But extremely limited.

Also, it seems critical to acknowledge that BA is just one very small subset of therapy modalities. MFTs, LPCs, LCSWs, and clinical PhDs learn more. You can do BA alone without help, but the human touch is part of what makes it effective. For someone who needs more than just BA, you need expertise.

I’m a little perplexed by this take. The paper never clarified who the specialists are, so I’m not sure why PhD clinicians are being named here. They go to school for 5-7 years to learn both practice and how to be researchers - a very different skillset than therapy administration alone.

This is horrifying

Kenya was showing me some social cog work that seems to suggest these groupings depend on the presence of other types of detectable affiliations. Age seemed like a weaker grouping, maybe because everyone ages. In the case of Mario, maybe we sort it as “character” as an affiliation before age?

I would be better at flossing and going to the dentist generally if they still gave me dinosaur stickers and pencils when I was done with my appointment.

I want to read more about this; any paper recommendations?

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