Derek Harter

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

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Are we at "The Pivot" in 2025?

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YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

@kurzgesagt.org has an excellent new video on how AI slop is killing us all. I highely recommend supporting kurzgesagt and checkout out their content like I do.

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'Red Flag': Analysts Sound Major Alarms As AI Bubble Now 'Bigger' Than Subprime | Common Dreams Analysts warn of AI bubble 17x larger than dot-com bubble. Could trigger global recession. Experts express concern over AI industry's financial risks.

NO BAILOUTS!!! Let them eat beans.

A lot of things are being said every day about AI and education by everyone from teachers to pundits to people who are marketing AI. Over at The Important Work, we've got teachers--and occasionally students--writing about their own experiences in actual classrooms. Our latest: what AI misses when/1

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

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The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence “Can machines think?” So asked Alan Turing in his 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” Turing quickly noted that, given the difficulty of defining thinking, the question is “too meaning...

In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Turing test, I'm re-upping my short essay, "The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence".

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Cartoon of a cranky woman breaking a stick.

My old fashioned stance is that computer science should be about the science, not chasing the latest shiny trend. For instance analysis and design of algorithms or modeling finite state machines will always remain relevant.

Feel very sympathetic towards this article 🧪
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The crux of my raging hatred is not that I hate LLMs or the generative AI craze. I had my fun with Copilot before I decided that it was making me stupider - it's impressive, but not actually suitable for anything more than churning out boilerplate. Nothing wrong with that, but it did not end up being the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be, because programming is designing and these tools aren't good enough (yet) to assist me with this seriously. No, what I hate is the people who have latched onto it, like so many trailing leeches, bloated with blood and wriggling blindly. Before it was unpopular, they were the ones that loved discussing the potential of blockchain for the business. They were the ones who breathlessly discussed the potential of 'quantum' when I last attended a conference, despite clearly not having any idea what the fuck that even means. As I write this, I have just realized that I have an image that describes the link between these fields perfectly.

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Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

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Fighting Fire With Fire From Austin to Albany, This Is the Counterpunch We’ve Been Waiting For

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When I was in the 5th grade I changed schools, and it sucked.

Not just “miss my friends” sucked — I mean rip‑your‑world‑out‑by‑the‑roots, drop‑you‑in‑hostile‑territory sucked. Overnight, my whole life got thrown in a moving truck

About That Stock Market Policy has gone mad; why aren’t stocks down?

AI winter is coming. And then there will be a depression. (NB: that's Charlie Stross, not Krugman.)

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YouTube video by Road Less Marveled May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

Youth is wasted on the olds.

The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History This post celebrates influential papers that shaped technology and communication. Their foundational concepts inspire continued innovation, highlighting the importance of understanding our roots fo…

The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History

A cartoon reflecting women in red robes, hanging their heads under white caps, standing in line to enter a voting booth. On the other side of the voting booth women are exiting wearing heels and dresses and pant suits, having cast their handmaid’s tale garb aside, leaving them on the ground outside the voting booth

By the great Mike Luckovich

Kamala Harris, walking through the Capitol Rotunda

Over on Whatever, I've done what the owners of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times would not: Endorsed Kamala Harris for President of the United States. Come read why I think she's not only the right choice, but the only choice, for president this year:

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The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers Won't You Be My Neighbor

Hellyeah

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Coutchfuck club. The first rule of coutchfuck club is...

Hi just noticed the follow back and wanted to say: big fan ever since finding Daemon/Freedom and devouring them. And definitely were spot on about dangers of monocultures in tech.

Big recommend to everyone who hasn't read Suarez to pick up his books today.