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Mike Burnham

@ml_burn

Incoming AP @tamupols, Postdoc @PUPolitics, dual Ph.D. @psupolisci & @CSoDA_PSU. Text analysis & deep learning, methods, American politics and accountability.

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If literacy rates are so poor then explain how everyone read and formed an opinion about that abundance book in less than 24 hours.

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Going to start turning all of my papers into board books. No child of mine is going to enter kindergarten without a research agenda.

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Look I'm obviously pretty pro AI, but this whole Ghibli thing should make clear how profoundly unfair this technology can be. The fact that someone's distinct contribution to the world can be commoditized against their wishes and with no compensation should give us pause.

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Occasionally, I get emails from high school students looking to do part time RA work. I find this depressing. This is not how I want my kids spending their time when they are 16.

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Some will interpret this as outsourcing your work to an LLM. It’s not any more than peer review is outsourcing your work. LLMs are a cheap way to get feedback on empirics and the models are good enough now that if it finds criticisms you should at least consider them.

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You want mandatory voting to improve the health of our democracy. But I want it so that I don't have to listen to debates about voter enthusiasm vs. appealing to the median.