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Hugo Mercier

@hugoreasoning

Evolutionary and cognitive psychologist. Author, Not Born Yesterday (tinyurl.com/yyh929ns), The Enigma of Reason (tinyurl.com/6hbpn84).
Nantes, France sites.google.com/site/hugomerci… Joined July 2017
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The paperback of Not Born Yesterday is out today! Here's the thread from the original release x.com/hugoreasoning/… and more info sites.google.com/site/hugomerci…
Hugo Mercier @hugoreasoning Jan 28, 2020
This time it IS out! Not Born Yesterday, arguing that people aren’t gullible. Psychology! Political science! History! Anthropology! Media studies! ToC below, and threads to follow with stuff I wish I’d put in the book

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Impressive experimental demonstration of the power of argumentation. We had chatbots align people's opinion with the scientific consensus on COVID vaccines drive.google.com/file/d/1sYrQLI… and GMOs drive.google.com/file/d/11E89gE…, but that one seems to work even better, maybe thanks to LLMs.
drive.google.com Altay et al Information Delivered by a Chatbot Has a Positive Impact on COVID-19 Vaccines Attitudes...
David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Verified account @DG_Rand Apr 3, 2024
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Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers
🡆Effect lasts 2+mo
🡆Works on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/psya…
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