Krista K. Thomason

Right after 9/11 a version of Count of Monte Cristo came out, but because everyone was convinced that the entire country was suffering too much trauma, they changed the ending to a happy one.

Old tweet from @shelfcomedy: me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying

The morning so far

Thanks, Paul! Anger is indeed featured in the book.

this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang

The Emotions Behind AI Even experts disagree about the impacts AI will have on our lives. The debate has less to do with how the technology works and more to do with how we feel about it.

I wrote about how AI discourse is mostly about feelings. Come for the Rorschach test, stay for the 17th century microscope debate
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...

Just to be clear: Kristi is a dear friend of mine. But, if you honestly think that you know everything there is to know about the A&M situation, God help you. You've never been department chair.

If you haven't checked out the new edited volume that @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com has put together, you should! Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny

Just a quick reminder to all the undergrads out there: your former professors love hearing from you! I heard from two of my alumni today and I just love it.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

I am particularly proud of this snippet that they pulled

A Focus on Trust Benjamin Kuipers ’70 explores ethics for robots and other AIs that could potentially be members of human society.

I was interviewed by the Swarthmore Bulletin about AI. magazine.swarthmore.edu/issue/fall-2...

"Do you have time to....?"
No. I'm chair. I don't have time to do anything. I have negative time. I'm in time debt.

Thanks, Luke!

Screenshot of David Simon interview SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Big ups to @lucyrandall802.bsky.social who 100% saved me from writing a terrible conclusion in my second book.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

A SKELTAN REACHIN FOR A PLATE OF PICKLE'S : "IF YOUR NOT GOING TO EAT YOUR PICKLES CAN I HAVE THEM??????" - IN THIS ROASTED TERD OF A WORLD YOUR EITHER THE ONE GIVIN UP THE PICKLES OR YOUR THE ONE EATEN THEM - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Look at this great video promo @cliffordsosis.bsky.social made!

#Philsky Check out this great volume edited by @cliffordsosis.bsky.social. It's full of weird philosophy, including a chapter by me where I defend Kant's views about lying. Use the discount code 25SMA3 to get 20%off!

Frederick Douglass literally risked his life to learn how to read and you turkeys are asking AI to summarize a news article for you because you can't be bothered???

a drawing of Milhouse from the Simpsons but in the style of the Bauhaus movement captioned everything's coming up Milhaus

I will never apologize for a post

Can conversing with AI cause delusions and psychosis? A spate of shocking breakdowns and even deaths involving AI chatbots is fuelling panic over ‘AI psychosis’ and new safety features. It’s not quite that simple, say experts

The Standard interviewed me about people being driven insane by ChatGPT. This is my new thing.
www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ch...

Why Are We Looking for a Friend in ChatGPT? OpenAI added new mental health guardrails to the latest ChatGPT model, yet users demanded the friendly version back. People want the convenience of a friend without the work.

After ChatGPT users demanded to have the "friendly" version reinstated, I decided it was time to think a little bit about why we're looking for friendship in a chatbot in the first place
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...

We have a communal pot, bought with department discretionary funds. We can buy coffee as an office supply, but sometimes people bring in a bag to share. The coffee drinkers take turns making pots. It's a good system.

I have already become a "bring back the Enlightenment" guy.

How dare you.

Going back to my roots*

*writing my papers in Garamond

Why Are We Looking for a Friend in ChatGPT? OpenAI added new mental health guardrails to the latest ChatGPT model, yet users demanded the friendly version back. People want the convenience of a friend without the work.

After ChatGPT users demanded to have the "friendly" version reinstated, I decided it was time to think a little bit about why we're looking for friendship in a chatbot in the first place
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...

The downfall has been foretold by many signs, but surely one of them is displaying the estimated reading time of news articles.

An image of Hasok Chang with glowing red lazer eyes

Phlogiston didn't fail, it was failed.