Michael A. Nees
@michaelnees.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at Lafayette College. Interested in human factors, psychology of humans and tech, auditory displays, and accessibility. Opinions my own. https://sites.lafayette.edu/neesm
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If you think the LLM told you something, ask yourself: What is your belief about who's talking? What is feeding that belief?
September 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you think the LLM told you something, ask yourself: What is your belief about who's talking? What is feeding that belief?
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"The care robots themselves required care: they had to be moved around, maintained, cleaned, booted up, operated, repeatedly explained to residents... Indeed, a growing body of evidence from other studies is finding that robots tend to end up creating more work for caregivers.":
Caregivers’ use of robots and their effect on work environment – a scoping review
Despite the lively discussion on the pros and cons of using robots in health care, little is still known about how caregivers are affected when robots are introduced in their work environment. The ...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"The care robots themselves required care: they had to be moved around, maintained, cleaned, booted up, operated, repeatedly explained to residents... Indeed, a growing body of evidence from other studies is finding that robots tend to end up creating more work for caregivers.":
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Also eliminating disability and “perfecting humanity” are fundamentally incompatible because disability is a core element to the human experience and what makes us humans
July 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Also eliminating disability and “perfecting humanity” are fundamentally incompatible because disability is a core element to the human experience and what makes us humans
Thanks for documenting all of this. It was really interesting to follow. Great work, as always.
July 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Thanks for documenting all of this. It was really interesting to follow. Great work, as always.
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self-driving would seem, to the layman, to indicate that the car... drives itself?
July 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
self-driving would seem, to the layman, to indicate that the car... drives itself?
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I mean you could just ask people what they think the word means...
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July 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I mean you could just ask people what they think the word means...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I mean you could just ask people what they think the word means...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
July 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I mean you could just ask people what they think the word means...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...