Jacques Rousseau

AI, education, and a generation of zombies GenAI will result in many people who are currently in schools or universities outsourcing their cognition to software, and never learning to think or innovate.

General pessimism on education and AI.
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Humanists pass global declaration on AI and human values Representatives of the global humanist community collectively resolved to pass The Luxembourg Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values at the 2025 general assembly of Humanists Internat...

A sensible set of principles, even as we'll be floundering to figure out the implications and mitigations regarding AI for the foreseeable future.

David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89 The author of more than two dozen books is best known for his trio set in a fictionalised version of the University of Birmingham, where he worked from 1960 to 1987

These books (the trilogy, I mean) were a delight to read at the time. It's sometimes been less pleasant to live in them.

Purple cows, Cabanac and the Democratic Alliance Responses to John Steenhuisen’s appointment of Roman Cabanac to the Ministry of Agriculture are spending too much time on the candidate, rather than the decision.

While I can't do the whole outrage thing, this was not a good idea. www.synapses.co.za/purple-cows-...

While the vast majority of members of UCT's Senate would be appalled at events in Gaza, an academic boycott is a pointless and irresponsible response.
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A Valentine story.

‘Duo euthanasia’: In the Netherlands, a famous couple chooses to die together

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