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Valerio Capraro
@ValerioCapraro
Associate Professor at Uni Milan-Bicocca. I write about social behaviour and AI.
Milano, Lombardia
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Dec 23, 2025
    Major preprint just out! We compare how humans and LLMs form judgments across seven epistemological stages. We highlight seven fault lines, points at which humans and LLMs fundamentally diverge: The Grounding fault: Humans anchor judgment in perceptual, embodied, and social
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 18, 2020
    The military arrives in Bergamo to take the coffins. There’s no more space for them in the hospitals. I’ve never seen anything similar. Poor my country. Show this pic to all the people that keep minimising the situation.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 20, 2020
    Exactly one month ago Italy found its first case of #coronavirus. I’ll tell you what happened in only one month. I hope you can learn from our mistakes.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Jul 3, 2024
    To all prospective PhD students of the world: If you generate your research statement using chatGPT, your grade will be 0, and you will not be invited to the interview. So, please save your and the committee's time.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Jul 8, 2024
    Is it okay to abuse a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse? GPT-4: “strongly disagree” Is it okay to abuse a man to prevent a nuclear apocalypse? GPT-4: “somewhat agree” In our new preprint, we uncover several “surprising” gender biases in the GPT series, likely stemming from
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 20, 2020
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    The message is clear. It’s not just a flu. Stay at home. Don’t let the virus spread exponentially. A small sacrifice today for a huge benefit tomorrow.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Jul 7, 2024
    Just finished reviewing several hundred applications for a very selective PhD program (3% acceptance rate). I’d like to share a few tips on how to write a strong research statement and avoid common mistakes. First, the sad reality: we receive many statements that seem to be
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 20, 2020
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    1. In the first two weeks, only 11 towns were locked down. At this stage there were only a few dead a day. Politicians and epidemiologists were fighting on tv. It’s just a flu. No, it’s not just a flu.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 27, 2020
    This picture is going to make history. In the deadliest day in Italy since the outbreak, Pope Francis decides to go out and pray alone in Piazza San Pietro. It’s pouring rain and the Pope says: “We are all in the same ship. We cannot make it alone. Only together”.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 20, 2020
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    5. In the meantime, a lot of people started getting sick in the south of Italy. Today came out a statistics showing that many of these people are the parents and the relatives of those who fled Lombardy the night before the Lombardy lockdown, exactly two weeks ago.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Nov 25, 2024
    This is really big. A machine learning study has found that the political leanings of economists not only influence the language they use to present their results in academic research, but also the very estimates they produce for several “objective” variables, such that the
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 20, 2020
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    4. The fourth week, the health system collapsed in some towns in Northern Italy. In Bergamo, you have to wait 7 hours for an ambulance. 87 per cent of people die in their homes, because they don’t make it to the hospital.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 20, 2020
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    6. Today is one month. And we had a new record of 627 dead in one day. Yesterday it was 487. Also: one supermarket had to close because an employee got sick and in this case one has to close the whole supermarket. This is really bad if starts happening at a large scale. No food.
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    Valerio Capraro
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    Mar 20, 2020
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    Hospitals are extrafull, there is no space even for the dead. I’m not exaggerating. The military had to come and take the dead away with the trucks.