"Lame has authorised the development of an AI “digital twin”, a regulated artificial intelligence version of himself that can produce content autonomously, in multiple languages and formats."
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Football manager gets sacked for relying on ChatGPT for strategy and team selection.
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My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
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TIL, competitive spreadsheeting is a thing!
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The Palantir takeover happening in the US and UK is astonishing!
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Karp went to do a PhD in neoclassical social theory in Frankfurt. As a Jew, Steinberger says, Karp “wanted to understand how Germany, a pillar of European civilisation, had descended into barbarism.”
Palantir’s founding mission was “defending the west” 🙄
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#Antropic #AI model resorts to blackmail to avoid being shut down in a stress test.
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The #AI bubble makes the BBC front page.
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Only godless heathens worry about #AI's impact!!! 🙄
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It's board meetings all the way down!
So LensKart is about to offer an $8B IPO in India and it's hyping up its claims of #AI based eye testing. Perhaps understandable that he'd want to bandwagon. But alarmingly, there's little mention of either research-based evidence or regulatory approval.
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"This year 38m farmers received forecasts powered by #AI. Rather than simulateing exactly what is going on in the atmosphere, they make predictions by comparing patterns they see in weather data with previous, similar patterns in the historical weather records."
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#India is moving towards legislation for the regulation of #AI generated content. All AI content must be clearly labeled.
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An entirely #AI rendered Mahabharata.
www.telegraphindia.com/entertainmen...
Cool reflection on the interpretive circularity of models & texts.
We tend to imagine that models tell us about the relations between texts, and differ only by accuracy.
But you can also turn this around and use texts to explore the relations between different models / interpretive approaches.
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Cow farts and the economics of #chip production.
The #AI realignment of labor relations is going to be long and difficult.
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Formalism was the best ism.
City comedy is where it's at, though. Asking students to adapt the concerns of City Comedy into a modern setting is such a fun exercise.
Been in the works for a while, but delighted it's finally out in the world, especially in the current political environment. I contributed an essay on the demonization of migrants in early modern England, a phenomenon that bears dispiriting similarities to our time.
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How the Public Sees Philosophy:
Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic | by Vít Gvoždiak & Martin Zach dailynous.com/2025/09/03/h... #philosophy #public #philsky
Break it Down Again; Stand by Me; Shine on You Crazy Diamond; Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.
3/ All that talk of wanting to create an alliance with the non-college working class but accidentally waking up in bed with senior managers rings hollow. When a university rushes to fire cafeteria workers to protect the endowment, it creates a guide map showing fascists exactly where to squeeze.
2/ When it became normal to have tens of billions of dollars in endowments to run universities (and rankings basically became directly correlated with endowment size). Trump is only the visible symptom that knows how to exploit a longstanding malaise. It was a conscious self-serving ride to hell.
