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Joe Simons

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Using computers to better understand people. Social psychologist. Bristol to Singapore via Oxford and UNC.

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · Oct 15

Preprint update alert! Happy to share the latest version of this work on large language models (LLMs) for psychological measurement. Internally known as “What Would Thurstone Do (with an OpenAI subscription)?”, it results for an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration

arxiv.org/abs/2405.07447

From traces to measures: Large language models as a tool for psychological measurement from text

Large language models are increasingly being used to label or rate psychological features in text data. This approach helps address one of the limiting factors of digital trace data - their lack of an...

arxiv.org

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 14h

Kimchi and stilton

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 23h

You're the instigator
A monster in nature
<Yeaaaah / hey hey hey>
A necessary evil
A multiform chimera
You're a firestarter
Twisted firestarter

Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 23h

Bonus points if you can fit the last four lines to Firestarter

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe there were gamers even in the 17th century, history is so fascinating.

Alexis Trousset (alias Jacques Olivier) emerged briefly from obscurity in 1617, when he published a misogynistic tract entitled Alphabet of the Imperfection and Malice of Women. Trousset composed his diatribe as alphabetically ordered descriptions of female vices, beginning with the letter'A' (a very avaricious animal') and dedicated it to 'the worst creature in the world? The following extract from the preface exemplifies the style and content of the whole book:

Woman! If your arrogant and fickle mind could know the fate of your misery and the vanity of your condition, you would flee from the light of day and seek out the shadows; you would hide in caverns and caves; you would curse your misfortune, regret your birth and hate yourself. Nonetheless, the extreme blindness that deprives you of this knowledge makes you live in society as the most imperfect creature in the universe, the scum of nature, the breeding ground of evils, the source of controversy, the laughing stock of the insane, the scourge of wisdom, the firebrand of hell, the instigator of vice, the cesspool of filth, a monster in nature, a necessary evil, a multiform chimera, a harmful pleasure, the bait of the devil, the enemy of the angels, the mask of God, deforming and undermining the wisdom of the very God who created you.'

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d

"Actually, it's about ethics in liturgical exegesis"

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d

Caverns AND caves? In this economy?!

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d

Gosh if only there were some kind of organization which collated incoming stories and then used expert area knowledge to judge which should be given more prominence for the general reader. Almost like a news feed that has been, I won't know, edited #DisruptiveSolutions

Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d

The above post aimed at a *very* niche Venn intersection of audiences 🤣

Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 1d

AmbrïdgeBörg, a grimdark game of everyday country villiens trying to scrape a grimy existence in the ecocidal shadow of the bickering demigods Brine and Justinian #TheArchers #MorkBorg

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d

I once had an acronym-creating web app suggest we might want to name a project "DEFECATE". Decided against it in the end.

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d

Cry ribbit and let them slip

Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d

(Sign of the times: had to re-word this post to make clear this is a dumb D&D joke and <not> an implication the protestors are crisis actors)

Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d

What I'm saying is if the dude had some hirelings, they would have a huge morale check bonus

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d

Turning undead and also some heads

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 4d

Milt on main

Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 5d

^ Rejected theme song for the Frasier reboot

Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 6d

"Dear Dr. Westgate,

We are writing with regard to your application 'Duz size matter? Stikk-mouf dynamics and automatik arboreal evaluayshuns'. We were a little surprised by this departure from your prior work, as well as the 3 page digression on the moral failings of cats"