"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜
I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is.
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Labor intensification coming with automation?
Who could have seen this coming?
No way in hell am I challenging a law prof to an epistemology duel.
Philippa Foot: I invented the Trolley Problem to expose the flaws of consequentialism.
Our entire society: Finally we have created the Trolley Problem from classic philosophical work Do Not Create The Trolley Prob—
*out-of-control trolley ploughs through the group, mercifully ending the debate*
I don't think enough people are paying attention to Anthropic's lawsuit against the DoD. Hegseth wants Terminators, while Anthropic just doesn't want Claude to pull the trigger (probably for liability reasons). Dystopia is already here.
My latest in @thenation.com
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The Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) setting a good precedent, affirming the right to refuse AI for both instructors AND students.
The whole "Resolution 2" in the linked document below is worth reading.
h/t @evenannaliese.bsky.social
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Relatedly: I hate HATE the bastardization of the term *democratization* by neoliberals, particularly those in computing, to mean "you can buy/rent this for cheaper than you use to". 🤬
I spoke w/ a reporter at The Guardian about AI & she used one of my quotes as the title of her article 😂.
Thanks to Alice Speri & @theguardian.com for covering our Sisyphean struggle.
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Any time one of the con SCOTUS justices, they should be asked about this and how we hold them to account for it.
this is basically a big chunk of the work I've been doing in reporting form across years and wow, i've never seen anything more perfect from *that* very specific perspective: frame it, put it in a museum.
“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.
Definitely worth remembering the environmental damage the railroad booms & busts did to American west in the late 19th century when looking to what we allow above our heads.
Could this shared tendency-toward predictable disaster and genuine ignorance-be a coincidence? History suggests not. The technology of the global supply chain echoes the technology of machine learning because the two have a surprising amount in common, from the assumptions they share about the way the world works to their tortured relationship to interior visibility. In both cases, technologists who dream of self-governing systems have accepted-even embraced—a persistent opacity at the heart of the mechanisms they've designed.
Here’s what I say.
I feel like she is one of those people whose name *requires* an expletive as a middle name. At least to make sure that the disdain one has for the individual is as clear in pure text as it would be if said aloud.
Facebook does Facebook things, i.e. purchase other people's software to integrate it into the Zuckerberg slop hivemind.
sudo chown -R : /usr/lib*; chmod -R 000 /usr/lib*
Own the libs by doing nothing and then locking yourself out of core software libraries FTW!
sudo chown -R : /usr/lib*; chmod -R 000 /usr/lib*
Own the libs by doing nothing and then locking yourself out of core software libraries FTW!
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
They take off their professorial glasses and The Who kicks on in the background “Yeahhhhhh….”
Literally “The Simpsons Did It” as the “evil plan gone wrong” bit at the end of the episode.
Gasp! 😱 no vermouth??
A chart showing how the relative sizes of federal grant funding in the US, with arts and humanities getting an infinitesimal portion.
To offer some context, here's a graphic our fabulous intern Aidan Nuttall put together in 2023.
When we compared our per capita humanities research funding against 42 other countries, there was only a single country that spent less (South Africa), and most countries spent 10x-250x more.
DoJ, if it still exists past this reactionary regime, should be trawling its 2024-2028 loss record for those to replenish various divisions.
What's the gin to vermouth ratio of a filthy martini?
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.
The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.
Link to the full resolution below.
We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7
Why are we justified marginalizing Nazis and other racist and sexist scientists?
(tl,dr: it's a paper thread: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28499/) #philsci #sts #philsky
I completely disagree with this premise. It dangerously absolves conservative Christians for their intimate involvement in creating the 1990s/2000s Teen Culture.
