Rasmus Birk

Works the other way around too.

“If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

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Have you considered that this ad is, in fact, scientifically illiterate? Heritability estimates are many things but they do *not* say that IQ is ‘X% genetic’.

Spotify wrapped aka the grim realisation of how much children’s music and audiobooks you’ve been subjected to in the past year

Even sadder to have missed this now!

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”

People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.

It feels like the more important issue here is not the (stupid) question itself, but instead the fantasy of the machine that is both pliant and conscious, and what sort of collective wish that fantasy might index.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Also this one, although it’s just libgen: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This is pretty much the conclusion in a few historical studies of psychology (I’m reducing some nuance here), eg by Danziger

I have so many questions about this and one is: he needs a manuscript to say this?!

Af helt oprigtigt nysgerrighed efter at have læst artiklen: hvor ser du kritikken? Det slår mig som ren mikrofonholderi uden ét eneste kritisk spørgsmål.

From Red Right Hand to Far Right Man, in this talk, I will...

maybe we can change your symposium next week, from the future of the medical humanities to the state of nick cave?

Yes… the Deleuzians

Cian Dorr giving us some grues and bleens in "To be F is to be G" (2016)

"Unlike continental nonsense, analytic philosophy is clear and intelligible"

It’s getting harder and harder to teach social psych lol

Surely this headline is for rage-engagement, right?

Wait, do twin studies come from *him*?!

Find someone that looks at you the way that universities look at AI

So, in the age of ChatGPT etc, do we now have to edit out emdashes from our papers if we don't want them to be (incorrectly) read as written by LLMs?

people arguing in your mentions that it's not ackshually funny in 3, 2,...

Institut for Kommunikation og Psykologi på Aalborg Universitet Kommunikation og Psykologi er et institut på Aalborg Universitet, hvor forskning og uddannelse handler om forholdet mellem mennesker, samfund, teknologi og viden.

I’d love a copy too! Rbirk@ikp.aau.dk

Unrelated, but I’ll never forget opening one of his books on acceleration and technology and being *shocked* that there was almost no recognition of the *whole* of the field of STS.

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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

Disappointing that she mentions the actual weekday and not just ‘n+1’

A ★★★★½ review of Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Martin Scorsese has had many projects over his long career as a director but if he's preoccupied by one single subject it is the extent to which crime and violence are constitutive parts of American i...

It’s pretty worthwhile reading the whole thing (I just looked it up): boxd.it/5dDdhT