Muhammad Velji

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

Look, I'm not saying I told you so, but I was right

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious

“An artificial intelligence system apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

very Trump of him

Bless you Caleb. Thank you for sharing!

Muhammad Velji, Extended Relational Autonomy: Affordances, the Meso-Level and the Internalist-Externalist Debate - PhilPapers Catriona Mackenzie in a recent essay, Relational Equality and the Debate Between Externalists and Internalist Theories of Relational Autonomy (2022), takes a look back at an intractable debate within ...

Are you interested in affordances? What about Iris Marion Young's "Throwing Like a Girl"? What about autonomy? I'm super happy to have this paper accepted by Ergo. It's sort of the centre piece in the new direction my work is headed
philpapers.org/rec/VELERA-2

Open AI turning everyone into an accelerationist!

I honestly just downloaded your Ergo paper this morning and I'm going to read it on the train home to Montreal. (Happy Canadian thanksgiving btw haha)

Muhammad Velji, Extended Relational Autonomy: Affordances, the Meso-Level and the Internalist-Externalist Debate - PhilPapers Catriona Mackenzie in a recent essay, Relational Equality and the Debate Between Externalists and Internalist Theories of Relational Autonomy (2022), takes a look back at an intractable debate within ...

philpapers.org/rec/VELERA-2

More papers on affordances = more fun!

Buddy we are publication twinsies, just got a huge acceptance from an R & R today!!

YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic Spanish Joint

Close to a perfect song. I pretty much put it on whenever it rains. RIP D'Angelo www.youtube.com/watch?v=clXS...

good kid maad city at 12, biggie doesn't break the top 10, illmatic at 5? The pitchfork top 100 rap albums list is a joke

also phone numbers demonstrate the magic of chunking. 123-4567 is just 2 numbers then over time a single number to me, but if I wrote it like this 12-3-456-7 I'd have a hard time remembering the numbers

It's the same with me, their numbers are also habitually embedded in me. Like I think I could type their numbers on a button phone without looking just through muscle memory. But the kids are also right, I don't know anybody's phone number anymore

Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com

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.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I like how Southwestern is pretending in its commercials like paying for assigned seating is a good thing. Just the enshitiffication of everything sigh

I ask: where is Beakman in all of this! What is he doing?

Every time my partner says she's off to the gym I always say, "Guym, what's a guym?" Reading it really doesn't do this joke justice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFrP...

useless

It feels like Cass Sunstein of all people should have seen coming how Chotiner "nudged" him into this embarrassing reaction to being asked why he's friends with Kissinger.

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...

Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%

Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%

“Why does transit seem to be in an endless emergency? Why is it so easy to assume that transit’s financial situation is hopeless? Because we have constructed our transportation funding streams to make transit’s costs visible, while the costs of car dependence are mostly concealed.”

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

I've seen more jobs in Continental philosophy posted by the first week of Sept than all of last year... what's going on?? (I'm not complaining, more please!)

I will never stop banging on about this proposal by Jennifer Whittig. Tenure should be based on your 4 best pieces of writing. This would focus on quality not quantity also help solve the journal crisis and publishing arms war for junior scholars that fuels the crisis.
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ha ha (respectfully)

If he's a vocal advocate of the CAQ, he seems to literally be the only person in Quebec who is. (I feel like the public prayer law is a desperate attempt of a dying party): bsky.app/profile/cana...

Limite du nombre d’étudiants étrangers | « On demande l’abolition des quotas », dit le recteur de l’UQAM L’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) a enregistré une chute « dramatique » des demandes d’admission provenant de l’international cet automne. Elle demande l’abolition des quotas mis en place par l...

Stephane Pallage, vocal advocate of the CAQ government gutting funding to other universities that attract international students: I never thought the face-eating leopards party...

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