Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.
"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world"
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Note there is nothing in this piece about the benefit to students. "Success" is defined in this piece as capacity to further the program of commercial capture of education & revenue-generation through distance-learning. An example here and then a laughable follow-up in my next post.
AI is so seductive to the managerial class that dominates universities because it's the perfect example of an education-like service. It can be molded into any shape desired and doesn't come with any skilled labor. If you don't care about core elements of actual education, then what could be better?
If it were up to the top level admins, there'd be no education at all, and instead just the provision of education-like services
“Our instinct at the firm is, every time we hear about another attack, we need to see the chat logs because there’s [a good chance] that AI was deeply involved…”
Never have I ever had a fulltime, indefinite-term job. Not once!
So I always face the dilemma of the freelancer: can I afford to skip this particular, well-paying gig today? I've worked a ton lately and am okay, but what if the work dries up next week?
Must be amazing to just like "have a job"
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."
I think what's most telling of the quality of the writing and research is that it sends ideas for new ways to think about all sorts of things spinning through my mind; really the very best thing a book can do for you
I'm ~2/3 of the way through this and I will have lots to say when I review it for writing.ie. The chapter on Orkney is brilliant; the narrative of different forms of energy under Thatcher and neoliberalism is really instructive. My favorite so far though is the chapter on resistance to wind energy
A great book!
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
As if the staggering cost of the largest infrastructural investment in history is justified by translating "simple" texts
📣 New Research just published.
Adoption of EVs, solar PV, and heat pumps in Ireland is driven by affluence. Current grants favour high-income groups, risking a "green divide." Policies must focus on equity and lower upfront costs.
Open access: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Almost feels like the Iranians are directly responding to US news and media and markets with this - as if they saw the conspicuous underreaction too and thought “no, we need to demonstrate how easy this is for us”
This is right - when people eagerly talk about technical dimensions of AI research, but not about the moral wrongs that its practice entails, I think of Bernard Williams' observation that Utilitarians preferred technical complexity to moral ambiguity.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
So a single solar panel produces about *100 times more useful energy* than a tank of petrol.
Same energy tbh
Something that's truly being lost with AI is pride in one's work. Look at his banner: I cannot imagine sucking at my job so much, having so little care, that I would put something like this out as part of my trade. This is embarrassing for everyone involved and suggests total incompetence throughout
the most dead-eyed soulless capitalists can read fossil fuels’ writing on the wall and are investing in clean energy. the problem is there are more people exist who romanticize fossil fuels because coal miners and roughnecks are men
Israeli attacks on four oil facilities in #Tehran this weekend have exposed millions of Iranians to harm.
In this post we explore the attacks and unpack their health and environmental consequences: ceobs.org/black-rain-t... 1/3 #IranIsreal #Iran #IntLaw
One more way that the institutionalized elements of American politics are just an enormous, dysfunctional mess
Finis Dunaway kind of did this!
Kind of.
Someone could write an essay on how our Green Party, led by con artists who seem to appear only every 4 years, reflects the deeply individualist ideology of American politics, an outlook fundamentally at odds with what a Green Party is supposed to represent: a politics centered on the collective
Yep! Supplements and self-care instead of vaccines and public health.
I keep hearing from admins and even students that the best thing I can do is "model responsible AI use," but it's actually pretty simple: it's this.
As we have long suspected, the NYT is committed to not understanding anything about writing’s critical connection to human agency.
Or perhaps should I say, “Commitments were made to misunderstand the point of cognition and communication (leaving hundreds dead)”
Trump has already achieved a revolution. The question is not whether we restore the Constitution of 1787, it’s whether we keep the Trump Revolution of 2025. Restoration is not an option. It’s Revolution or Counter-Revolution.
