An arXiv paper finds that 25 large language models outperformed 13 senior researchers and 60 doctoral scholars individually on theory-building tasks in gender and race inequality research, though human theories…

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32562

...but this is precisely what llm bruteforces are not doing. theres no theorybuilding

New JMS PCP 💡 on Abductive Reasoning in Management Studies: Wickert, Fleming & Oswick, and Filatotchev et al. debate creativity vs rigour, and the risks of consensus without validation in theory building

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...*and* the flavor description on the first page of each class makes it pretty straightforward to choose a class without theorybuilding multiple classes a priori.

Oh, and I forgot to mention Pathbuilder! pathbuilder2e.com/app.html It's also got all the character options available for free, so it's really handy for theorybuilding characters and scrolling through to find cool options.

big tangent but I occasionally ponder if the vibe of "unfeminist" policing is partially because it's a movement where theorybuilding happens over house-parties as much as the academy, and anyone can be a theorist in that way, whereas other movements often have stronger cadre/rank-and-file separation

//oh, I don't play on Showdown at all, it's just way more convenient for stuff like theorybuilding (esp because of the recent games' nat dex cuts)

I really only still have it for that reason lmao-

I keep telling my coworkers to read Programming as Theorybuilding by Peter Naur from 1985

It generalises to non-programming pretty well with the idea just being this:

The thing you're making is not the value. The real value is the knowledge and understanding held by people able to make the thing

Live now! Framing my War and Equinox theorybuilding! Come tell me how your week has been and relax. :D

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Eronen will discuss the theory crisis in psychology and the need for constraints in theory construction. Join us to explore the challenges and opportunities in psychological theory building. Online meeting link: meet.google.com/mdy-ouba-rxe #Psychology #TheoryBuilding #CognitiveScience #Seminar