Gavin Mueller

Thanks!

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Before AI skeptics, Luddites raged against the machine...literally The word “Luddite” has become shorthand for technophobe, but the original rebels of the Industrial Revolution were actually battling a more insidious foe.

i'm quoted in this National Geographic article www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

I think I’ve settled on the readings for the week on “subjectivity” for the fall MA module on New Media Theory

Among the least surprising admissions I’ve read

Time to take the kids to the Pride boat parade 🥳

FOMO is the recommendation algorithm approach to life

when you're muddling through dutch with another expat and you realize you both speak english much better

they want to privatize it. they want to stop government and university research for the general interest because it competes with the increasingly bizarre priorities of illiterate billionaires. next generation will do postdocs on how to do sex crimes on the moon and how to put ads in your blood

Can someone "disrupt" Adobe's lock on PDFs? AI popups are terrible, and the SaaS tethering is evil, but their software lacks basic functionality. I was on their forums trying to figure out if you can get rid of all the highlighting on a PDF and the solution was to convert it to a DOC and then back

The extimate core of understanding: absolute metaphors, psychosis and large language models - AI & SOCIETY This paper delves into the striking parallels between the linguistic patterns of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the concepts of psychosis in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lacanian theory, with its focus on the formal and logical underpinnings of psychosis, provides a compelling lens to juxtapose human cognition and AI mechanisms. LLMs, such as GPT-4, appear to replicate the intricate metaphorical and metonymical frameworks inherent in human language. Although grounded in mathematical logic and probabilistic analysis, the outputs of LLMs echo the nuanced linguistic associations found in metaphor and metonymy, suggesting a mirroring of human linguistic structures. A pivotal point in this discourse is the exploration of “absolute metaphors”—core gaps in reasoning discernible in both AI models and human thought processes and central to the Lacanian conceptualization of psychosis. Despite the traditional divide between AI research and continental philosophy, this analysis embarks on an innovative journey, utilizing Lacanian philosophy to unravel the logic of AI, using concepts established in the continental discourse on logic, rather than the analytical tradition.

this paper goes crazy: chatGPT is psychotic (in lacanian terms) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is where you have to pick up packages sent to you via UPS in Amsterdam

")'; `Im a mongol -- will you come and play with me?`; Sero is beautiful."
- The Perfect Crime

Flying into Amsterdam on a sunny day inevitably makes me want to play SimCity 2000

Only when absolutely necessary (my son’s gymnastics class is in Nieuw-West)

If it was inside the A10 I’d have gone

As someone with multiple degrees in cultural studies, I am very excited to go to Birmingham today

Honestly? He killed it. He should be MCing everything in this country

Delighted to announce that the train simulator ride at the Netherlands Rail Museum is introduced by Rutger Hauer

YouTube video by Ninajirachi Ninajirachi - Infohazard (Official Video)

no one is doing it like her www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Zd...

big motivation was to get them to read in english bc they won't learn to do that in school for a while. but also we didn't try to force it too much. and even 5 minutes of phonics can lock some basics down

Also sometimes just sitting around with a pen and paper casually, asking about various words and sounds and taking turns writing. It can be a fun conversation instead of a formal lesson. Things can gel quickly

Started at around 4, they have to know the letters first. Can spend as little as 5 min on it in the evening, depending on their interest, and if they really resisted, didn’t push. Lots of modeling as well. bsky.app/profile/did:...

ah the one comic he likes is Garfield -- local library has a bunch of em (only in dutch though)

weirdly they don't like comics (donald duck is huge in NL). we have this old-school series of phonics book called Primary Phonics. now the youngest is on to Mo Willems books, which include more sight words. oldest took a while get into YA novels, Dory Fantasmagory cracked it for him

It’s nice to feel like you’ve contributed an unambiguous good into the world

I’ve done it with both my kids, and I used to do it as a job. My daughter was more resistant than my son, but we were patient and now she’s into it

If you’ve never done it before, I recommend teaching someone to read. It’s not that hard and can be interesting, plus you feel massive gratification when they take off

Further evidence that libertarian political ideas are at the level of an eight-year-old boy

“I want to make my own country on a raft” — my son, spontaneously inventing seasteading