Human interaction is going to shift to discords and group chats, invite-only. The open web and social media are going to be left for the agents lurking amongst the ruins. Everything public will be Moltbook.
It hasn’t fully hit BlueSky yet, but LinkedIn and X are just meaning-shaped comments by LLMs
“Handwriting is to typing like reading a book is to listening to an audiobook while simultaneously cooking dinner, watching the tv on silent, and texting with a friend. By virtue of what it is, it requires conscious effort in a way typing does not.“ — @mkonnikova.bsky.social
Well worth listening to. Will AI crush higher education?
Jimmy Alfonso Licon / The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast
@anecdotal.bsky.social & @bryan_caplan
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Good luck with the recovery.
Thank you.
I really appreciate your insights and all the work you put into these articles.🙏
Le Québec affiche l’un des meilleurs niveaux de bien-être www.ledevoir.com/economie/932...
How Technology Is Making Us Stupid an interview with @daisychristo.bsky.social
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“Students’ reluctance to perform controversial viewpoints in public settings may reflect a paradigm shift that meaningful engagement with controversial ideas requires privacy and reflection. AI may deliver all this far more fruitfully than the performative classroom discussions that FIRE champions”
All crimes?
Violent crimes, robbery…how about white collar crimes?
Would GW Bush, Cheney the US, invading Iraq be considered a crime?
@thebandb.bsky.social thoughts on this article?
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@schewpsych.bsky.social
Thoughts on this article?
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“...American cognitive psychologist Barbara Oakley…”
Isn’t professor Oakley an engineer?
I can imagine similar displays of sincerity in Russia and China.
How did we get here?
The exact wording of the prompt is not that important, it is the idea that you can use modern web-connected LLMs as solid first-pass fact checkers that is useful. As an author, I can choose to take or leave their advice, but it is helpful to have it.
Convincing arguments...
News misleads.
News is irrelevant.
News has no explanatory power.
News is toxic to your body.
News increases cognitive errors.
News inhibits thinking.
News works like a drug.
News wastes time.
News makes us passive.
News kills creativity.
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Why did they use 4o-mini?
How about the harm caused alcohol, gambling, cars, cigarettes, unhealthy fast food…
Is banning the solution?
Perhaps like opera, classical music, jazz, theatre, museums…reading books, will become, has become, perhaps always was, a “luxury activity”?
“The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise” - @daisychristo.bsky.social
Interesting
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⏳There are just so many hours in a day, something has to give.
“Displacement theory suggests that increasing time and attention spent on other forms of media (e.g., digital media and social media) may replace reading for personal interest!”
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The definition of insanity?
“…pivot back towards fossil fuels in a bid to revive its share price.”
“The objective world no doubt exists, but the world we experience is always an active construction, a kind of “controlled hallucination” in which the brain uses sensory signals to update and calibrate its best interpretation of what’s going on.” - @anilseth.bsky.social
“…three things happens when people use a machine to automate a task they would otherwise have done themselves:
- Their skill in the activity grows.
- Their skill in the activity atrophies.
- Their skill in the activity never develops”
- Nicholas Carr
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What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change
“Methane traps about 80 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide over 20 years. And methane emissions, which are driving an estimated 45 percent of human-caused warming, are rising rapidly.”
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Making Sense of Generative Learning activities with Logan Fiorella
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“All I’m asking is this: those in the media who have the reach and resources to find the qualified skeptics out there should do much more to highlight those voices and make them more prominent in public discourse about AI. “ - Freddie deBoer
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Thank you very much.
“ #ChatGPT and #Claude have got really quite good at writing. As they improve, will they make human writers, even highly skilled ones, as obsolete as typists?”
A conversation between @ianleslie.bsky.social and @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
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