Christopher Chabris

@cfchabris

Cognitive scientist, professor, author 'Nobody's Fool' (bit.ly/3Wm7rCa) & 'The Invisible Gorilla,' essayist, chess master, poker player, game lover

Lewisburg, PA, USA

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Joined July 2009

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Christopher Chabris
@cfchabris
Jul 12, 2023
NOBODY'S FOOL, my second book co-authored with @ProfSimons, was published today by @BasicBooks! It's about how deception works—the patterns inherent in successful frauds and scams, and the cognitive science of how we respond to them. Much more info here: dansimons.com/NobodysFool.ht…
Christopher Chabris
@cfchabris
Aug 8
Is this development of persistent, distinctive, “AI mannerisms” caused by each model being trained excessively on LLM-generated text, concentrated on its own model family’s own output?
Jeremy Olson
@jerols
Aug 6
I'm so freakin sick of how Claude talks. It's not just annoying, it's infuriating. The honest evaluation: it's the precise mechanism driving my current headache. It's the load-bearing root cause of my daily stress. It's genuinely painful, and that matters.
Christopher Chabris
@cfchabris
Jul 31
I wish I had thought of this experiment
Tall Roman Statue
@TallRomanStatue
Jul 31
Replying to @RWMaloneMD
Added some other frens
Christopher Chabris
@cfchabris
Jul 31
We're still open to new applications!
Christopher Chabris
@cfchabris
Jul 8
POSTDOC HIRING: Our lab in the Dept. of Bioethics and Decision Sciences in the Geisinger College of Health Sciences is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Behavioral Science of Health-Related Beliefs, Judgment, and Decision-Making. Ideal for an experimental psychologist,
Christopher Chabris
@cfchabris
Jul 19
I would love to see the study in which a group of high school seniors applied for both
Quite Interesting
@qikipedia
Jul 19
It is easier for applicants to get into Harvard than to be accepted as a donor for fecal transplants.