PNAS
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Looks interesting @davidgunkel.bsky.social - published version here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... What does it even mean for a model or system to be "average", "neutral", or whatever? We aren't. Maybe it's an impossibility. But at least we can question ourselves and others about it.
10.03.2026 16:33
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🚨New Preprint🚨
*Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models*
We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways.
Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail
osf.io/preprints/ps...
13.12.2024 14:54
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I think, as described, Dennett's veers further towards self-prompt generation...?
09.03.2026 16:04
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120 characters? That's less than an old text message, a fledgeling Tweet.
09.03.2026 15:37
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."
But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.
They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.
07.03.2026 20:34
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Wittfogel eat your heart out
06.03.2026 15:47
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If he's not doing anything useful at the moment, getting this properly sorted could be an ideal job (or hobby) for J R-M?
09.03.2026 15:01
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Someone's gotta do it.
09.03.2026 14:57
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Good exercise to see how joined-up UK govt records are on EU legislation
tl;dr errrm
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09.03.2026 14:33
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Or could it be a portable Large Language Model? They can be quite deadly too.
09.03.2026 14:15
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That makes the chart even better! Which are a bigger danger to humans? Tractors... cows... uh, endangered species?
09.03.2026 14:13
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10cc - Godley And Creme - Consequences News Item
YouTube video by Roy Beaufoy
That's not a Gizmo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyT6...
09.03.2026 12:40
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Good point, here's US: defenders.org/sites/defaul... UK is 4 or 5 annually.
09.03.2026 12:35
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A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
09.03.2026 09:59
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But can't I be a contrarian and doubt myself?
09.03.2026 12:23
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It's funny that they're saying there's no Asians here, when for a long time all the trending words of a morning (GMT+8-10) were Japanese
09.03.2026 12:08
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UK must be prepared for a price shock from the Iran war | Heather Stewart
Governments are having to wake up to the fact they will have to take a closer interest in supply chains for essentials
This week’s column - here we go again with another cost shock; as they become more common, given fractured geopolitics + climate crisis, we’re going to have to find new approaches besides whacking up interest rates:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
08.03.2026 14:29
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OSF
New preprint with @alexlepauvre.bsky.social, @standehaene.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni (@predictivebrainlab.bsky.social) on the temporal dynamics of conscious access:
Discrete episodes of conscious access revealed by the psychological refractory period
osf.io/preprints/ps...
04.03.2026 07:54
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L'Atalante is a great film, though.
09.03.2026 10:54
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At least they're not all as evil as Putin but some are not as far as they pretend to be, Trump of course in particular.
09.03.2026 10:52
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As an occasional visitor to Oxford, the cyclists can be quite annoying if you're not used to them. Although to be fair, where I live, pavement cyclists are on the rise, so I should really be getting more used to them swishing around me. Still, better than cars I suppose!
09.03.2026 10:23
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But it is! Next stop, everyone in Oxford will be forced to wear commie boiler suits and sing Party songs on these battery-operated buses, which will be the only way anyone can leave their so-called 15-minute zones. Anyone found not singing (on the surveillance CCTV) will be forcibly re-educated. 😉
09.03.2026 10:18
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03.03.2026 15:53
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Yes, I now buy my plastic bags in bulk online to avoid this. Works out at more per bag but... I have complete bag sovereignty.
09.03.2026 10:08
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Yes, if anything it's misunderstanding the way language works: the difference between ordinary language symbol use and symbolic logic. Words often invoke a range of meanings and we solve the puzzles in light of them. There's a mismatch between our and the puzzle-setters' expectations of each other.
09.03.2026 10:02
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Given all that leading info about her (must be kinda relevant), which do I think is more likely?
1) she's a bank teller (okaay... but, looking at the option below, seems we're less sure whether she's an active feminist or not);
2) she's a bank teller who is also an active feminist.
I'm going with 2!
09.03.2026 09:51
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That would also be a reasonable match. Both answers remain possible. It's not eXclusive OR!
09.03.2026 09:33
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Revived thread in time of LLMs: x.com/i/status/181...
09.03.2026 09:32
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