SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
SOTA
21.10.2025 13:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thursday Night Football starring Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort
17.10.2025 23:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The first in a (jam-packed) series of events on cultural AI this year from DTL. More incoming!
06.10.2025 16:22 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Digital Theory Lab at NYU will host Karen Hao for a book talk on Empire of AI on Monday, October 13, RSVP required here:
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Man if only cognitive maps were still functioning
01.10.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh amazing to hear! I hope itโs, well, generative
29.09.2025 01:44 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hi! Ty
28.09.2025 23:17 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Greg Olsen is so committed to the decision-theory bit: "Just because the outcome is good, doesn't mean the decision was correct."
Anyway, Carson Wentz.
It was! And they let it slip
24.09.2025 16:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Extremely good stuff from Leif here
24.09.2025 16:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0i was on Disintegrator podcast, a really awesome conversation
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
the political economy of bad thinking, a really great piece about the *hostile synergy* between B and X from Henry
24.09.2025 15:36 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The humanities long since in its Cringe Era
22.09.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Real different vibes man, good luck
18.09.2025 13:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm going to write on this, but the subtext is that the Nate Silver crowd have shifted hard away from political science, and hard towards the Silicon Valley mindset as a foundational source for purportedly better grounded knowledge. This by @beenwrekt.bsky.social and @leifw.bsky.social
16.09.2025 00:12 โ ๐ 100 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2extremely imporant one-two from Dan here:
"First, the communication of the polling results to policymakers is likely to be at least as difficult a problem as the election forecast presentation, probably much more so. Second, the technical problems with polling are going to be worse."
UChicago alumni: we are drafting a letter targeting a few of the more persuadable-seeming trustees urging them to change course on humanities funding. Please sign:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Explanation to follow ...
Find the lie (in this case)
02.09.2025 19:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0*Carr
02.09.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"automated language results from Goedel and Jackobson systems interacting together, without cognition. The incomplete and greedy combine to show us what language is in the absence of cognition and present a strong attractor for meaning."
โLeif Weatherby, Language Machines
loving @leifw.bsky.socialโs Language Machines so far. in particular:
โIt seems that mental illness, or at a minimum neurosis, should be a criterion for passing the Turing test, but it is equally unlikely that this view will ever be adopted by engineers or journalists.โ
Language Machines is in The Observer!
27.08.2025 15:02 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Finally got these two in the mail, been looking forward to reading both.
22.08.2025 13:52 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1๐
20.08.2025 00:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An almost universally acknowledged point that mysteriously disappears whenever conversation turns to AI
18.08.2025 16:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Text is part of the world
18.08.2025 16:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Superb survey of different approaches to the key theoretical question of the moment: What does it mean to call language models โcultural technologiesโ?
At any rate Iโm going to three (3) conferences and symposia this year connected to it! +
screenshot of text in terminal $ ai "write a sonnet about how people who only read the republic are confused about what plato thought" gpt-5-thinking | 27.58 s | $0.02026 | Tokens: 210 -> 2000 They take the city spoken as the law, And fix his thought in guardiansโ stern decree; As if one cave could hold the sun they saw, Or single myth could bind philosophy. He staged a city only in a speech, A city in the word, not in the street; Then later dialogues unbuild its reach, And mix the good with measure, tuned and sweet. They miss Parmenidesโ sharp counter-art, The Sophistโs net that loosens rigid kind, The Laws that cool the fire of the heart, A letter warning none should write the mind. Read one and swear the sum of him is known; He wrote in many masksโlet all be shown.
17.08.2025 16:46 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0