Thank you, thank you.
Who needs wikipedia when you have grokipedia? “He completed a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cincinnati in 2025...In her late teens, Mel Andrews balanced early military service with professional lifeguarding roles.” grokipedia.com/page/mel_and...
rerarch.
whole administration has a deeply committed “something you pay for at a gas station and don’t tell your wife about” aesthetic to it
…and on American dime, no less…
Exquisite “bumper sticker I could buy at an Indiana truckstop” design on this coinage.
I just… I feel like there’s a certain powerful “I believe myself to be an idiot baby incapable of doing anything myself” mentality that goes along with entrusting anything weighty to LLMs…
When I apply for professorships I like to leave a little typo or two in my materials as a kind of bounty and if the committee finds it they get to hire me. My own little game show where I am the prize ♡
ha!
Human history is in fact teleological but its purpose is to reinvent cybernetic socialism every fifty years ad infinitum only more idiotic each time.
sorry but James was definitely taking mescaline long before Sartre or M-P.
but usually they have questions like “what, in your opinion, is the best color of sock”
The current direction of AI labs is “we’re building something that’s going to replace you and we have no plan to make sure you’re going to land in a better place, but we’ll make billions.”
The logical reaction is, “shut it down.” Labs need to get serious on addressing labor impacts.
Agreed. But flagrant misrepresentation was likely the point. And it succeeded at that.
Ted Chiang responds to the article going around that asks if the left is missing out on AI: “I don’t know. Is the left missing out on ICE?”
Thrilled to be at NYU this week and to speak at this workshop on Cultural AI.
Living on to reckon with another generation of Churchlands!
Went into a workshop at Stanford on the neural manifold hypothesis ready to disabuse neuroscientists of their platonic fantasies and left much more open-minded with regards to both their ontic status and explanatory power.
I, for one, embrace our new indecipherable Joycean child overlords
I am thrilled to join this workshop at NYU next week. Follow links to register.
a lemon? it’s a sort of oblong, yellow citrus fruit
yet I settled for a lemonless existence
First time in Berkeley since nearly coming here for my PhD. A return to the land of giant lemons.
Wonderful work.
Just us at AIP in Washington, DC, on Friday, March 20, as we welcome philosopher and historian Elise Crull for our first Lyne Starling Trimble public event of the year: "Hertha Sponer and the Path from Electron Diffraction to Wave/Particle Duality"
RSVP today: www.aip.org/history/elis...
If you wrote “AI-generated papers are DDoSing journals” I commend you. Also please reach out I would like to chat and possibly invite you to a workshop publicationethics.org/guidance/cas...
have you tried sandwich
If you would like to know what @balloonleap.bsky.social and I think about the relationship between generative AI chatbots and the teaching of writing, we have an article for you to read! 1/
#writingstudies #genai+writing #teamrhetoric
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What's missing? The public. Decisions about whether AI can surveil American citizens or autonomously deploy lethal force are being settled in a contract dispute. No Congress. No democratic deliberation. No accountability. We've outsourced questions about the use of force to a corporate negotiation.
In my imagination people bet on the outcomes of bingo games but I may be wrong about this.
