Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield

Otherwise, great point

First rule of high school, if they aren't your friends they aren't "teasing" you. If you never learned that, well you're lucky. Teasing is every bully's favorite word. And "they were asking for it" is every bully's favorite phrase.

Oh, don't be deliberately obtuse. What you just said is what every person rooting for bullies says and if you can't hear how it sounds coming out of your mouth, maybe this site has cooked your brain a bit.

Not really criticism of your reply but stating it for the record. This isn't an article in the NYT, or a politician declaring support for military law. It's a generally nice guy making a dumb observation about his experience.

When there's a mob and there's someone saying something stupid but harmless, I generally think the mob is the problem.

Justin is actually on MSNBC every other night fighting the authoritarian takeover with facts and no doubt getting himself targeted by structural power, so I have no patience with armchair heroes thinking they are brave by mobbing someone.

That is pretty funny. I mean terribly sad but in a dry way.

Oh geez I was! Sorry because of my own history getting abused here for supposedly pro AI views I probably overindex the AI hate.

Yeah exactly

The scale of a whole site misrepresenting you that way and there's no way to fight back without making it worse just really sucks. You just sit there reminding yourself it will pass.

The thing I hated for reasons hard to explain when it happened to me on a smaller scale was all the "author of book on verification thinks AI tells the truth, he is very smart lol" posts. There was some abusive stuff but for some reason that particular lazy and repeated take got me so depressed

I also wish the people saying he deserved it would take a minute to ask if they've ever been at the bottom of one of these. I think people underestimate how upsetting it can be, because they think it's the same as when they got some mean replies.

And it's a bit of a tragedy because we're going to have a tidal wave of democracy destroying misinfo in the next years and I've developed some techniques with AI that people could use to figure out how to explain important things to others, but apparently the real fascism is AI assisted search

I skip talking about it here which is kind of sad because most of my followers followed me bc I got micro famous showing people how to fact check things with search, but if I share how to fact-check things with AI (which can be really good at that if you know how) I risk being the villain of the day

Like if all the quote tweets were that sort of thing this would be a much more enjoyable site

Well that's a fair point lol

Yeah, it'd be nice though if the price of ill expression that is pro AI on this site wasn't a dogpile. People get really vile.

Dogpiling is dogpiling, and for minor transgressions it's vile behavior and we shouldn't excuse it.

I wonder if he does know? It's a lazy post, but having been at the bottom of one of these I didn't know until then there's a whole well developed network on this site that works to produce their AI villain of the day dogpile. I don't think anyone deserves it, frankly.

I've been at the bottom of an anti AI dogpile on this site and the closest thing to it is when the antivaxxers came after me. I'm not saying most anti-ai people are like that, but there is a contingent on this site for whom these posts are their libs of TikTok. So I am glad you cut him a break.

I mean, is it well expressed? No. Does Justin deserve the Justine Sacco level of abuse he's going to get over the next 24 hours, abuse which is never leveled with that vitriol against AI critics? Also very much no.

Local man about to learn something unfortunate about posting about AI on Bluesky

Exactly

"If we just decide as faculty that the world will have newspapers instead of Facebook that will be the real solution." Etc.

It's just a weird example on a number of levels. But honestly I saw this back in 2010 when I was first arguing that we should teach infolit for social media -- why do that when we could just decide not to have social media at all?

Wanna know why Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel all LOVED Eliezer Yudkowsky, right up until they ignored him?

It’s because he was USEFUL to their efforts to attract funding and talent to their new companies.

If you think futurism is about accuracy, then you’re the sucker at the table.

Rome the complete first season

Ok, let's go...

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

It's an amazing script, too, lots of little twists and turns, all of them obvious in hindsight.

Get it in, track it down, follow up Three essential moves to using AI for verification and contextualization, with a bit of LLM-specific guidance

People always aske me "What does SIFT for AI look like?" Meaning, what is the minimal set of habits you need to teach students to use it effectively for exploration of claims online? It's taken a couple years to get here but this is a start at a response mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/get-it-in-...