Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦
@maksimrudnev.com
Values, wisdom, SEM, and dread. Formerly https://twitter.com/MaksimRudnev
Micromanagement in its full rampant action
(or – who *really* writes all this)
(or – who *really* writes all this)
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Micromanagement in its full rampant action
(or – who *really* writes all this)
(or – who *really* writes all this)
The only acceptable answer an academic can provide when asked: "Why are you doing this?"
is:
"Because it is interesting."
All the other motivations are wrong.
is:
"Because it is interesting."
All the other motivations are wrong.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The only acceptable answer an academic can provide when asked: "Why are you doing this?"
is:
"Because it is interesting."
All the other motivations are wrong.
is:
"Because it is interesting."
All the other motivations are wrong.
"when directly asked if it was an AI or a human, [AI] claimed to be human 100% of the time"
"when asked to report a ZIP code, over 80% of [AI]’s responses were 90210 (Beverly Hills)" :-D
www.surveypractice.org/article/1460...
"when asked to report a ZIP code, over 80% of [AI]’s responses were 90210 (Beverly Hills)" :-D
www.surveypractice.org/article/1460...
How to Detect AI-assisted Interviews in Online Surveys | Published in Survey Practice
By James Martherus, Alexander Podkul & 2 more. The emergence of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) tools capable of autonomously interacting with web interfaces presents new challenges and opportuni...
www.surveypractice.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"when directly asked if it was an AI or a human, [AI] claimed to be human 100% of the time"
"when asked to report a ZIP code, over 80% of [AI]’s responses were 90210 (Beverly Hills)" :-D
www.surveypractice.org/article/1460...
"when asked to report a ZIP code, over 80% of [AI]’s responses were 90210 (Beverly Hills)" :-D
www.surveypractice.org/article/1460...
Reposted by Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦
Sure, correlation does not mean causation, but that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting.
This site maps how a wide range of tastes and preferences correlate with personality traits (and vice versa), not all of which are unsurprising:
buff.ly/YwPu1TY
via @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social
This site maps how a wide range of tastes and preferences correlate with personality traits (and vice versa), not all of which are unsurprising:
buff.ly/YwPu1TY
via @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sure, correlation does not mean causation, but that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting.
This site maps how a wide range of tastes and preferences correlate with personality traits (and vice versa), not all of which are unsurprising:
buff.ly/YwPu1TY
via @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social
This site maps how a wide range of tastes and preferences correlate with personality traits (and vice versa), not all of which are unsurprising:
buff.ly/YwPu1TY
via @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social
How to make an echo in your echo chamber sound even more like you?
"Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms"
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14434
"users can use [basic value] controls to architect feeds reflecting their desired values. [such] feeds diverge.. from engagement-driven feeds."
"Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms"
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14434
"users can use [basic value] controls to architect feeds reflecting their desired values. [such] feeds diverge.. from engagement-driven feeds."
arxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
How to make an echo in your echo chamber sound even more like you?
"Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms"
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14434
"users can use [basic value] controls to architect feeds reflecting their desired values. [such] feeds diverge.. from engagement-driven feeds."
"Value Alignment of Social Media Ranking Algorithms"
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14434
"users can use [basic value] controls to architect feeds reflecting their desired values. [such] feeds diverge.. from engagement-driven feeds."
AI doesn't take away your dirty work, AI redefines it.
September 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
AI doesn't take away your dirty work, AI redefines it.
Reposted by Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦
Jinli Wu's paper is out. "The mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind or mentalist focus/orientation) and that behavior carries greater significance in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus/orientation).
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Why the West Minds and the East Behaves: An Integrative Review of the Cultural Evolution of Mind–Behavior Orientations - Jinli Wu, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, 2025
One fundamental characteristic of humans is that we have both “exteriors” (i.e., behavior) and “interiors” (i.e., mental states). This distinction between the m...
journals.sagepub.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Jinli Wu's paper is out. "The mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind or mentalist focus/orientation) and that behavior carries greater significance in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus/orientation).
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Rethinking measurement invariance causally by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance.
A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation.
Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results
It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance.
A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation.
Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results
Rethinking measurement invariance causally
Measurement invariance is often touted as a necessary statistical prerequisite for group comparisons. Typically, when there is evidence against measur…
doi.org
September 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Rethinking measurement invariance causally by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance.
A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation.
Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results
It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance.
A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation.
Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results
September 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦
Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.
For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.
“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.
“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
September 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.
For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.
“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.
“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Arguably, the most annoying way to name your paper: make it a question which you don't answer in the paper.
September 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Arguably, the most annoying way to name your paper: make it a question which you don't answer in the paper.
It's not around mainstream media, but right now in Serbia academics are blocked out of universities, and their students are beaten up by a police for just trying to keep up with their duties.
Video from the Department of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Video from the Department of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Suzavac i sukobi u Novom Sadu
YouTube video by Portal Mašina
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's not around mainstream media, but right now in Serbia academics are blocked out of universities, and their students are beaten up by a police for just trying to keep up with their duties.
Video from the Department of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Video from the Department of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
More and more positions like that (not just in the U.S.)
September 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
More and more positions like that (not just in the U.S.)
A random paper, just—the art of science
"In preliminary analyses, ipsative value scores showed almost no association with the outcome measures, whereas the raw mean scores showed robust associations. The raw mean scores were therefore used..."
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
"In preliminary analyses, ipsative value scores showed almost no association with the outcome measures, whereas the raw mean scores showed robust associations. The raw mean scores were therefore used..."
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
August 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A random paper, just—the art of science
"In preliminary analyses, ipsative value scores showed almost no association with the outcome measures, whereas the raw mean scores showed robust associations. The raw mean scores were therefore used..."
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
"In preliminary analyses, ipsative value scores showed almost no association with the outcome measures, whereas the raw mean scores showed robust associations. The raw mean scores were therefore used..."
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
Reposted by Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦
New paper in Proceedings B, forcing us to rethink the canonical understanding of cultural differences in independent and interdependent agency.
Decision-making preferences for intuition, deliberation, friends or crowds in independent and interdependent societies #ProcB #OpenAccess #Neuroscience #Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
August 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New paper in Proceedings B, forcing us to rethink the canonical understanding of cultural differences in independent and interdependent agency.
"the mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind focus) and behavior ... in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus)." @yuliacd.bsky.social
I like this idea very much; explains all that Western fuss about "being a good person".
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I like this idea very much; explains all that Western fuss about "being a good person".
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
August 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"the mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind focus) and behavior ... in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus)." @yuliacd.bsky.social
I like this idea very much; explains all that Western fuss about "being a good person".
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I like this idea very much; explains all that Western fuss about "being a good person".
osf.io/preprints/ps...
"Sage against the machine" —
is a behind-the-paywall title of a Hindustan Times article reviewing our paper ( doi.org/10.1038/s414...) on perception of wisdom in people across cultures (thanks to @igi.bsky.social )
there's a paywall but just in case
www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
is a behind-the-paywall title of a Hindustan Times article reviewing our paper ( doi.org/10.1038/s414...) on perception of wisdom in people across cultures (thanks to @igi.bsky.social )
there's a paywall but just in case
www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
July 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"Sage against the machine" —
is a behind-the-paywall title of a Hindustan Times article reviewing our paper ( doi.org/10.1038/s414...) on perception of wisdom in people across cultures (thanks to @igi.bsky.social )
there's a paywall but just in case
www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
is a behind-the-paywall title of a Hindustan Times article reviewing our paper ( doi.org/10.1038/s414...) on perception of wisdom in people across cultures (thanks to @igi.bsky.social )
there's a paywall but just in case
www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
July 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just like the ego in Freudian theory acts as a negotiator between the id and the superego, personality is a battleground where culture collides with situational demands.
#nocontextdrops
#nocontextdrops
June 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just like the ego in Freudian theory acts as a negotiator between the id and the superego, personality is a battleground where culture collides with situational demands.
#nocontextdrops
#nocontextdrops
Values are not what people *are* (hence the weak association with behavior)
Values are what people *aspire to be*
#nocontextdrops
Values are what people *aspire to be*
#nocontextdrops
June 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Values are not what people *are* (hence the weak association with behavior)
Values are what people *aspire to be*
#nocontextdrops
Values are what people *aspire to be*
#nocontextdrops
Just a Cattell's box - good for teaching and reflecting on psychological data
June 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Just a Cattell's box - good for teaching and reflecting on psychological data