Rick Morgan
@rickmorgan.bsky.social
With Liberty and Justice for All | political science | data science | applied research. Co-founder of Pax Strategies. paxstrategies.com
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Posting is correlated with affective polarization:
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Posting is correlated with affective polarization:
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
😡 The most partisan users — those who love their party and despise the other — are more likely to post about politics
🥊 The result? A loud angry minority dominates online politics, which itself can drive polarization (see doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)
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My partner was one of the researchers on this lost wallet study. Turns out people suck less than we expect. www.npr.org/2019/06/20/7...
What Dropping 17,000 Wallets Around The Globe Can Teach Us About Honesty
Scientists used "lost" wallets to test whether people are more likely to be dishonest when they might profit. The results were puzzling — so they put more money in the wallets.
www.npr.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My partner was one of the researchers on this lost wallet study. Turns out people suck less than we expect. www.npr.org/2019/06/20/7...
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Amusingly, the feverish investment into data centers comes as AI adoption has *already* passed its peak in Enterprise, the AI companies themselves admit hallucination is ubfixable, and studies are revealing that workslop is not merely low-value but actually negative value for companies using AI.
"Workslop" was the logical outcome of productivity maxxing
Local throughput optimization always externalizes costs onto downstream colleagues.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Amusingly, the feverish investment into data centers comes as AI adoption has *already* passed its peak in Enterprise, the AI companies themselves admit hallucination is ubfixable, and studies are revealing that workslop is not merely low-value but actually negative value for companies using AI.
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This is the first time I’ve seen these kind of “you don’t know what you don’t know” issues in coding to a degree that I’ve seen them in law, and it’s the same structural issue — when you get down to it, you have to be the kind of expert that the AI promises to replace to be able to use it safely
July 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is the first time I’ve seen these kind of “you don’t know what you don’t know” issues in coding to a degree that I’ve seen them in law, and it’s the same structural issue — when you get down to it, you have to be the kind of expert that the AI promises to replace to be able to use it safely