Joshua Becker
Associate Professor focused on #collectiveintelligence and #negotiation at UCL School of Management // previously Kellogg School of Mgmt, Annenberg Penn School of Comm, Community Mediation, AmeriCorps // only following identifiable people
- Reposted by Joshua Becker🚨 New European Commission's JRC Report Out Collaborative Policymaking Science-backed insights for better collaboration in public administration/policymaking & 12 actionable principles to make it happen 🔗 Report + principles: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h... @davidmair4.bsky.social
- ChatGPT nailed it: "your concern is not anti-psychology. It’s pro-science."
- yes i HAVE wondered this!!!
- (1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Joshua Becker(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!
- IF ONLY
- i'm afraid there's nothing i can do 😢 one of only two comments (from 80 students) on my negotiation class evaluation: “The only bad thing of the course was the low attendance”
- I've discovered an unexpected benefit of the MESO (multiple equivalent simultaneous offers) in landlord negotiations, when they tried to give us a contract that didn't reflect our agreement: "...which was your choice, not ours."
- I have a credit dispute with my coauthor. Each of us denies coming up with Equation 1, and thinks the other person did it.
- EasyChair is ....... not so easy.
- using the AI to add the progress bar to the script using the AI to do the literature review.
- idk, i think its cool. tiny.cc/socialphysics
- on the importance of theory
- On the usefulness of AI+CI research results in a fast-changing landscape: "If we root ourselves more to first principles of collective intelligence rather than focusing on current capabilities of LLMs, we’re future proofing our perspective" - Jason Burton, just a moment ago
- If I submit my paper to 5 journals before it gets published, and each journal requires 3 reviewers, thats 15 reviewers per paper. Is everybody completing as many reviews as they require from others? Or are some people carrying the lions share of the burden?
- Negotiating with my landlord for lease renewal. Offered them a MESO. Targeted their interests. Gestured at rights. Keeping power in my pocket. Thanks, negotiation theory!! Coming soon: the response.
- i just created a course in Thinkific with the title "negotiation solutions" and it auto-populated a syllabus and section titles for me including one on "Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication". the course url is "ai-placeholder"
- ONE WEEK TO DEADLINE for Collective Intelligence 2025 submissions! Accepting non-archival AND proceedings submissions, to include contributions from a diverse set of academic traditions. More info here: ci.acm.org/2025/submit/
- ONE WEEK TO DEADLINE for Collective Intelligence 2025 submissions! Accepting non-archival AND proceedings submissions, to include contributions from a diverse set of academic traditions. More info here: ci.acm.org/2025/submit/
- science is not an exact science
- i just sit around all day and test hypotheses. by which i mean, i generate lots of hypotheses, and test them to see if they're interesting.
- "all models are wrong. some models are useful."
- propositions vs hypotheses? Proposition = a thing to be demonstrated theoretically. Hypothesis = a thing to be demonstrated empirically.
- my class is really easy because i tell you all the answers to the exam over the term, all you have to do is (show up to class and) write them down
- UK is a petri dish for collective intelligence! There's a "collective leadership" dept in govt, another running mass deliberations, and activists meeting up to discuss "Why Britain needs highly talented people like you to think about governance." lu.ma/lfg-cf?tk=zd...
- After all, what is (collective) consciousness but a (collective) self talking to itself about talking to itself about itself?
- what if nuance weren't so boring?
- well that's fun. ( alani.ai )
- The wisdom of competitive crowds? Estimation meets poker: mynamelowercase.com/blog/general...
- i just.... really love whiteboards. i love looking at stuff on them, i love writing on them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- early remote work crowdsourcing
- It did much better on the answer about Xinyang: it didn't refuse to talk, it just gave a party line.
