I don't think Lindley's paradox supports p-circling

https://vilgot-huhn.github.io/mywebsite/posts/20251206_p_circle_lindley/

#HackerNews #LindleysParadox #pCircling #DecisionMaking #CriticalThinking #AIResearch

"What psychological mechanisms allow us to pour hundreds of billions into artificial intelligence while 600 million people will live in extreme poverty by 2030? The answer lies in the architecture of human decision-making under conditions of abstraction, proximity bias, and manufactured urgency."

#CorneliaCWalther, Ph.D, 2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence/202511/the-psychology-of-collective-abandonment

#psychology #poverty #DecisionMaking

Yesterday, after four years, I earned my PhD in Health Science, Technology, and Management at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.

🎓 My dissertation explores topics such as adolescent vaccine hesitancy, the behavioral impact of clinical guidelines, the drivers of innovation in healthcare systems, and the digital transformation of health. All examined through the lens of applied behavioral science.

I am deeply grateful to my supervisor, Prof. Nicola Belle', for these four incredible, challenging, and inspiring years.
To Dario Menicagli, thank you for welcoming me into the HPV project and for your trust and support. And to the incredible HPVoice team: Folco Panizza, Virginia Casigliani, Elisa Betti, Prof. Lara Tavoschi, thank you for your energy, kindness, and for making research a shared adventure.

I also wish to thank the reviewers and the PhD Defense Committee for their constructive feedback, with particular thanks to Prof. Marco Tagliabue and Prof. Simone Guercini.

Here’s to new beginnings, new challenges, and the hope that our research can make even a small difference.

💭 “𝙒𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙗𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.”
— 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙡 𝙆𝙖𝙝𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙁𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙡𝙤𝙬

#PhD #BehavioralScience #DecisionMaking #HealthScience #VaccineHesitancy #HPV

Yesterday, after four years, I earned my PhD in Health Science, Technology, and Management at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.

🎓 My dissertation explores topics such as adolescent vaccine hesitancy, the behavioral impact of clinical guidelines, the drivers of innovation in healthcare systems, and the digital transformation of health. All examined through the lens of applied behavioral science.

I am deeply grateful to my supervisor, Prof. Nicola Belle', for these four incredible, challenging, and inspiring years.
To Dario Menicagli, thank you for welcoming me into the HPV project and for your trust and support. And to the incredible HPVoice team: Folco Panizza, Virginia Casigliani, Elisa Betti, Prof. Lara Tavoschi, thank you for your energy, kindness, and for making research a shared adventure.

I also wish to thank the reviewers and the PhD Defense Committee for their constructive feedback, with particular thanks to Prof. Marco Tagliabue and Prof. Simone Guercini.

Here’s to new beginnings, new challenges, and the hope that our research can make even a small difference.

💭 “𝙒𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙗𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.”
— 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙡 𝙆𝙖𝙝𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙁𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙡𝙤𝙬

#PhD #BehavioralScience #DecisionMaking #HealthScience #VaccineHesitancy #HPV

🧠 New paper by Safaai et al. (2025): parietal #cortex output populations show highly structured, task-dependent population geometry. Using multi-area recordings and circuit modeling, they show that #parietal populations display organized task-related patterns rather than uniform mixed coding, and that distinct output groups shape how decisions are routed to downstream targets:

🌍 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02095-x

#Neuroscience #NeuralCoding #ParietalCortex #PopulationDynamics #DecisionMaking

Today I'll be #livestreaming years of #research about tracing and improving #decisionMaking at 14:00 EST.

Here's the abstract and a way to get (free) access to the #Zoom call:

https://events.la.psu.edu/event/consortium-workshop-nick-byrd/

Thanks to #PennState #Psychology for the (somewhat) #openAccess presentation!

2/3
Governance concept for online communities [5]:

- exit (e.g. #HelloQuitX or fork a FOSS project)

vs

- #AffectiveVoice - consultation in #DecisionMaking

vs

- #EffectiveVoice - participation in #DecisionMaking

Corollary: providing the conceptual tools and empirical evidence about how online governance can evolve away from implicit feudalism and towards effective voice could have huge local and global sociopolitical benefits. Cyberspace has real sociopolitical power in the 2020s.

2/3
Governance concept for online communities [5]:

- exit (e.g. #HelloQuitX or fork a FOSS project)

vs

- #AffectiveVoice - consultation in #DecisionMaking

vs

- #EffectiveVoice - participation in #DecisionMaking

Corollary: providing the conceptual tools and empirical evidence about how online governance can evolve away from implicit feudalism and towards effective voice could have huge local and global sociopolitical benefits. Cyberspace has real sociopolitical power in the 2020s.