Joshua Becker
joshuabecker.bsky.social
Joshua Becker
@joshuabecker.bsky.social
Associate Professor focused on #collectiveintelligence and #negotiation at UCL School of Management // previously Kellogg School of Mgmt, Annenberg Penn School of Comm, Community Mediation, AmeriCorps // only following identifiable people
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May 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
now i want to know about the bedford street hoax. smaller sure, but as the original i bet it was quite clever.
April 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
ONE WEEK TO DEADLINE for Collective Intelligence 2025 submissions! Accepting non-archival AND proceedings submissions, to include contributions from a diverse set of academic traditions. More info here: ci.acm.org/2025/submit/
March 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"all models are wrong. some models are useful."
February 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
well that's fun. ( alani.ai )
February 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Obviously DeepSeek won't talk openly about Taiwan. But the glitchy thing is, it gives answers first, and then deletes them! It checks its answers after typing them, not before, I guess. In the screenshot below, a real argument appeared and then was replaced with the censorship message.
January 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
on formal modeling in e.g. the social sciences: "simplify [X] for better understanding, study complexity* for realism"

*not in the 'complex systems' sense
January 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
let's see what tomorrow brings.
November 28, 2024 at 8:26 AM
October 26, 2023 at 1:27 PM
Quote with a picture of water that you took
October 24, 2023 at 8:34 AM
y'all have such a dry sense of humor, or are both really struggling, i can't tell what's going on here. but this popped into my timeline, so i'm just interloping to say: i hope this message finds you well. happy friday!
October 20, 2023 at 2:28 PM