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
- 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!
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- 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.
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View full threadhmm are you predicting my future? we haven't done the proceedings yet....
- wow that is a seriously nostalgic website. i remember when CSS didn't exist.
- 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?
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View full threadi suspect these numbers vary by field norms and ambition: with those values, all my papers would be published in PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Management Science, or Academy of Management Journal.
- and yes, the two laggards are indeed harming my career prospects.
- i'm going to go through all the top-tier journals before i give up and go to a 2nd tier journal.
- so even 5 max would assume that all my papers are published in top-tier journals. that's true, but only because the struggling papers haven't been published yet as they are still working through the system =P
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- sure yeah you can normalize, change the numbers, whatever but---i suspect we require a large number of reviews for each paper published, on average.
- 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.
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View full threadIf intention is at all relevant to cruelty it's kind of irrelevant whether it's a good strategy, vs whether the perpetrator thinks its a good strategy. Unless cruelty is in the eye of the beholder and not the perp, I suppose. In which case I suppose it's entirely up to you, and I have no opinion.
- I guess in this case, I honestly find it hard to tell the difference between cruelty, stupidity, and an extremely radical anti-globalist agenda.
- If it's an essential component of a calculated strategy to achieve a goal, is it still cruel? Or just selfish?
- 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"
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- now i want to know about the bedford street hoax. smaller sure, but as the original i bet it was quite clever.
- 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
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View full threadthe answers are also in the lecture videos, available on moodle! and there are readings. i just ALSO tell them the answers in class, a bit more explicitly ("this will be on the exam").
- it's just a negotiation class. it's not hard as far as exams go. also, since the class is really about experiential learning, i'm trying to get rid of the exam. (assessments are controlled by admin)
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- i don't quite understand... which part freaked them out?
- 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 )
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- a document that just repeats "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy"
- 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)_/¯
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- the blue one is pretty good!
- yeah well "working pens" was not the deal today... i have my own special ones in my office but i keep forgetting to take them to the classroom. (no expo in UK, though!!!)
- still fun though
- 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.
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- Still scary, because it's glitchy today but it'll be real slick tomorrow. It'll get better at subtly inserting the information & perspectives it wants you to hold, rather than so clumsily attempting to bludgeon you with its politics.
- Truly impressive how much digital technologies enable autocrats to control and shape public discourse.
