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AI-Powered Simulation and Human Behavioral Research Are Almost Certainly Complements
Either/or is not the right way to think about using AI simulations
Sep 30
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John Horton
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Disarming the Slop Cannon (ironically, with AI)
Using Expected Parrot to spin up bespoke AI interview + analysis workflows to flag “authors” who can’t explain their own work
Sep 17
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John Horton
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A Fake Pharmacy Scenario: From AI to Humans and Back Again (in under 2 hours, using 71¢ worth of tokens)
Using Expected Parrot to riff on a recent WSJ article on how CVS is using digital twins
Sep 16
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John Horton
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AI Thinks this Post is Terrible (but I’m writing it anyway)
Using Expected Parrot to propose and prioritize blogging topics
Sep 15
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John Horton
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July 2026
[Nerd Stuff]: Research Surveys should be Version-controlled files
And with Expected Parrot, they are!
Jul 31
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John Horton
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We can do that! Best Practices for Dealing with Randomness in Language Model Outputs
How Expected Parrot embodies many best practices out of the box
Jul 29
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John Horton
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Twitter Proposes; Prolific Disposes - Part I
Using Expected Parrot to test "promising" Ideas with real humans
Jul 23
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John Horton
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Marginal Ideas
Using Expected Parrot to find clusters of opportunities
Jul 22
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John Horton
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Amir Sariri
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Your Ideas Are Terrible---Find Out Cheaply, in Private
Using Expected Parrot for "pre-mortem" simulations
Published on Expected Parrot
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Jul 17
Your Ideas Are Terrible---Find Out Cheaply, in Private
Using Expected Parrot for "pre-mortem" simulations
Jul 17
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John Horton
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A Patriotic Experiment in AI-Powered Research
Expected Parrot can be used for reproducible data labeling.
Jul 16
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John Horton
Test Your Survey on Synthetic Respondents Before You Waste a Single Real One
How to do this easily with Expected Parrot
Jul 15
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John Horton
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