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Nicholas A. Christakis Profile picture
@NAChristakis
Aug 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
The selective suspension of this student for posting a photo of a mask-less crowd in a Georgia high school is preposterous and pretextual. The officials should now be ashamed of themselves on two accounts. 1/ cnn.com/2020/08/07/us/…
This effort to suppress bad news about the realities within our our schools as they re-open is evocative of the absurd efforts to do the same for our hospitals at the outset of the COVID19 pandemic. We will not beat this pandemic with denial and lies. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… 2/
The truth is a casualty of epidemics, alas, as I discuss (among many other topics) in #ApollosArrow, my new book out in October, on the COVID19 pandemic: amazon.com/Apollos-Arrow-… 3/
Given the wide publicity of this student's absurd suspension, the school has relented. Good. Here she is:

And all this reminds me of Tinker v. Des Moines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v.…

Free speech does not stop at the schoolhouse gate. Quite the contrary. 4/
An outbreak now reported at the school: nine cases of COVID-19 reported at North Paulding High School ajc.com/education/9-ca… 5/

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Dec 12, 2023
How will AI affect the way we treat each other?

In "hybrid systems" of humans and machines, how will AI (whether simple or complex) affect not just human-machine interactions, but human-human interactions in the presence of machines?

Will AI change human ethical behavior? 1/
In new work in @PNASNews, we showcase a novel cyber-physical system of people driving cars via the internet in an experimental diorama. This system allows us to explore how forms of AI affect existing human norms of cooperation and coordination. 2/ pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
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Hiro Shirado (), @shn_kasa, and I tested how AI might affect norms of reciprocity using a novel cyber-physical lab experiment where online subjects (N=300 in 150 dyads) drove robotic vehicles remotely in a game of CHICKEN. #HNL 3/ shirado.net
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Nov 26, 2023
If you hide people's wealth, you can make the economic gradient in happiness go away, in part by making poor people relatively happier.

New (somewhat dispiriting) experiments spearheaded by @Nishi_Akihiro in @NatMentHealth #HNL 1/ nature.com/articles/s4422…
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A lot of the economic gradient in subjective well being (SWB) with respect to wealth has to do with the invidious comparisons people can make with those around them. 2/
One classic study reported that most people prefer to choose A (current yearly income is $50,000 and others earn $25,000) over B (current yearly income is $100,000 and others earn $200,000).

People would rather be relatively rich and absolutely poor!

3/sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Oct 24, 2023
Laundering of claims: This @CNN link () says that 2,00 children have died in Gaza recently, and attributes info to an 'aid agency,' namely @SavetheChildren, and provides an embedded link you can click to for possible independent data. But....cnn.com/2023/10/24/mid…
When you click on link, you go to an article which reports that 'at least 2,000 children killed in Gaza' (which might be true and would be awful – the situation in Gaza is horrific, for sure!): But the article provides an embedded link for its source....savethechildren.net/news/least-200…
And the source of the Save the Children article which was the source of the CNN article is this article, per its embedded link: . And that article doesn't mention 2,000 children and is info from Hamas, which cannot be deemed independent or honest.dw.com/en/israel-hama…
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Mar 22, 2023
Fantastic letter from Dean Jenny Martinez of @Stanford @StanfordLaw defending fundamental principles of a university and addressing the wrong-headed means of protest employed by lawyers-in training at her school a few weeks ago. Bravo. law.stanford.edu/wp-content/upl…
I wish Presidents and Deans at universities had been able to forthrightly do such a thing for the past ten years.
"We cannot function as a law school from the premise that animated the disruption of Judge Duncan -- that speakers, texts, or ideas believed by some to be harmful inflict a new impermissible harm justifying a heckler’s veto simply because they are present on campus."
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Mar 18, 2023
Super-cool @PNASNews study examines historical changes in decision-making by professional Go players from 1950 to 2021, focusing on changes in game play after the advent of superhuman AI (i.e., AlphaGo). pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10… 1/
Human players in human-human matches began to make significantly better decisions in Go following the advent of superhuman AI. Players’ strategies across time changed to reflect more novelty (in the first 60 moves of a game). 2/
The development of superhuman AI programs may prompt human players to break away from traditional strategies and induced them to explore novel moves, which in turn may have improved their decision-making or even enjoyment of the game. 3/
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Mar 15, 2023
It's been exactly 3 years since I pinned this thread of threads re #COVID19. The early threads prompted me to write #ApollosArrow which has stood the test of time, I think (amazon.com/Apollos-Arrow-…).

And, as forecast, the pandemic is ending. I'm unpinning the thread—on schedule.
*subject to the low-likelihood emergence of a novel strain of the virus that fully evades our vaccines or that is much deadlier. ;-)
This piece in the @WSJ (wsj.com/articles/the-l…), published on October 16, 2020, laid out the likely course of the pandemic, and we are still on track. We are now late into the "intermediate phase" and will put the pandemic fully behind us in 2024. #ApollosArrow
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