Author Archives: brendano

It’s a human political belief model — based on Cyc! I’m not sure logic represents how people think all that well, but seeing the formalization of ideology is fascinating. And besides, the methodology of cognitive modelling is awesome. The link: … Continue reading →

This is a fun one: researchers trained capuchin monkeys to understand tokens as currency by letting them exchange them for food. Then they did all sorts of behavioral economics-y tests like finding consistency of preferences revealed in price shocks. The … Continue reading →

ArgMAS (argumentation in multi-agent systems) 2005Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA) 2005 Conferences in Edinburgh and the Netherlands, seems to make sense.

This is fairly funny, by good ol’ Jaron Lanier on that good ol’ topic, AI and philosophy: You can’t argue with a zombie Thanks to neurodudes.

What are good other resources on the internet for social science, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence (or computation more generally)? I’m looking for blog-like things in particular — stay updated on new research and the like. here’s the list so … Continue reading →

A common cognitive science view (H. Simon):Heuristics/biases are useful rules-of-thumb to approximate optimizing behavior given computational constraints. Consider the chess-playing heuristic “try not to lose your queen”. Since you can’t analyze all possible chess moves, it’s nice to have such … Continue reading →

does this look awesome or what? Imagine if you could computationally model the argumentation and communication in economic and political behavior. To say nothing of the AI applications too! PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA06) Organised … Continue reading →

Check it out! We’ve got conference papers, abstracts, a huge program, and a kick-ass blog/photosharing/wiki system Alexandra Samuel put together. This conference is going to be great! The conference home page ishttp://www.online-deliberation.net/conf2005/ and inside, the blog, and the blog’s welcome … Continue reading →

Is social science even worth doing when things like this get funded with hundreds of millions of federal dollars? Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead … Continue reading →

This is my idea based off of Bernheim and Rangel’s model of addict decision-making. It’s a really neat model; it manages to relax rationality to allow someone to do something they don’t want to do because they’re addicted to it. … Continue reading →