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Philosopher, psychologist, and neuroscientist studying vision, mental imagery, introspection, and consciousness in general. As S.S. Stevens said, "there are numerous pitfalls in this business." https://www.subjectivitylab.org 2026: Northeastern --> Duke

Jorge Morales

As everything these days, the 4x+ increase in recommended payments must be driven by the AI craze. Cool cool cool.

Agreed, this is unsustainable. We are actively exploring alternatives. What's worse is that we collected data the day before and after the change with wildly different levels of data quality. Which would suggest @joinprolific.bsky.social is actively manipulating the audience for your study

Jorge Morales

Ok so they are definitely doing some kind dynamic pricing. This is from a different workspace our lab uses. Not sure if it’s the workspace or the filters. But either way, @joinprolific.bsky.social will basically eliminate psychological research from their platform with this nonsense.

WTF?! This is clearly unsustainable for academia. Also, are they using some kind of dynamic pricing?

Jorge Morales

who wants to come work with us, on whether AIs can introspect? e.g. something similar to this - transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introsp... - but maybe especially in the perceptual domain? we just got some new funds to collaborate with our friends at Yale (on foundational models for fMRI data), & ...

After noticing another (significant!) drop in data quality this morning, I saw that Prolific is now recommending that participants be paid $48/hr

Vlad Ayzenberg

Jorge Morales

Krissy just spent $10 on a bag of cherries, got them home and half were rotten. That's 2026 for you: Everything's expensive and nothing is good.

also payment rates are locked by (a) grant funds (from the budget written years ago) & (b) the IRB/ethics protocol that allows us to run a study so like... what's the end goal here? somewhere btwn uber surge pricing & "you searched for this flight 3x so now we make it more expensive w/o incognito" ?

1mo