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For a year or two recently I used medium for my non-academic writing. I probably had a handful of different posts on there. Before that I had a wordpress, and before that (back in the dim and distant past) I had a livejournal. I wrote some stories I was half proud of, at the time. I’m sad I can’t find them anywhere. Maybe I’ll find and repost those medium posts, at least. Some of them give an insight into who I am and the projects I’ve done till now.
portfolio
Books translated
Non-academic Russian to English texts
Freelance editing
Non-academic, non-financial projects for Sandermoen Publishing
publications
Inferring epistemic intention in simulated physical microworlds
Published in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022
We explore whether people can recognise the epistemic goal or intention of active learners interacting with simulated physical objects.
Recommended citation: Stephanie Droop & Neil R. Bramley. (2022). "Inferring epistemic intention in simulated physical microworlds." Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Extending counterfactual reasoning models to capture unconstrained social explanations
Published in ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning) Workshop on Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines, Honolulu 2023, 2023
We extend a counterfactual account of explanation to capture how people generate free explanations for someone’s behaviour across a set of scenarios.
Recommended citation: Stephanie Droop & Neil R. Bramley. (2023). "Extending counterfactual reasoning models to capture unconstrained social explanations." Proceedings of ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning) Workshop on Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines, Honolulu 2023.
Selective imitation on the basis of reward function similarity
Published in Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
We explore the hypothesis that decisions about who to learn from involve inferences about other agents’ reward functions.
Recommended citation: Max Taylor-Davies, Stephanie Droop & Christopher G. Lucas. (2023). "Selective imitation on the basis of reward function similarity." Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Inverting the Turing test to track changing intuitions about artificial minds
Published in Arxiv (for now), 2024
We found people systematically overestimate the use of personal questions in a Turing test. However, people are sensitive to brusque, cynical tone, slang and perceived idiosyncrasy as cues to natural human output.
Recommended citation: Stephanie Droop, Cansu Oranc, Neil R. Bramley, Azzurra Ruggeri. (2024). "Inverting the Turing test to track changing intuitions about artificial minds." Arxiv, pending publication .
talks
Cogsci 2022
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This was my first conference talk. You can see a recording here. I was overjoyed it was mid-morning on the first day, when everyone was enthusiastic and wide-awake. The room was packed but long and narrow, so not the most conducive to engagement. I got their interest by running up the aisle before I started and waving hi, “to see who I’m talking to”. People liked that and put away their phones. Afterwards, I got a lot of questions from respected bigwigs in the field who noted the lack of models and were all itching to suggest their own approaches.
teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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