Paul Portner

Is it like “An occasional sailor strolled by”? In his book, Morzycki has a nice intro about that, and references.

‘We’re Just Becoming a Weapon of the State’ Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, has made a point of welcoming dissent. A letter from his officials will test that.

Atlantic story about #BethesdaDeclaration is up...

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

In the Washington area, suburban Korean supermarkets

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

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