andrewbuzzell.bsky.social
@uwo postdoc. social epistemology/technology/ethics
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yes!
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it would be interesting if running could support a high quality independent and audience funded outlet like cyclists have in @escapecollective.bsky.social
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cite is from a natpost "review".
found this masterclass in misleading citation in the speccie:
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so we are somewhere in between embrace and extend but a bit before extinguish
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace...
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that's super interesting! is it possible to share a bit more about this, i'd love to use it as an example in my class?
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and the new "i'm feeling lucky" standard
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Apparently, Russian propaganda directly worked to secure the election of a specific candidate in the U.S. elections in 2024.
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it’s like a hack-and-leak but from the inside out.
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wow nice photo too!
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100%, just like the old google. (leaving to one side llms aren’t info retrieval systems). and the ux will devolve in the same way for the same reasons.
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one thing i puzzle over - where will the new sources come from?
"OpenAI says that Deep Research is trained to select solid, reputable sources"
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reminiscent of the effort aimed at the syria civil defence, which used youtube/twitter very effectively. much of what we know about how that worked was from the streaming api, which no longer exists. that this is still "dark magic" all these years later is such a failing.
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a betrayal of the distinguished tradition of subprime mortgage-backed security safety and radium health & beauty safety!
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i think you are right. somewhere in the mix of "what is special about the potential social risk of ai" is the affordances we are giving it as a regulative technology. l'etat c'est moi, translated to machine.
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4/ The biggest surprise? Media indoctrination and civil liberties repression are the most predictive of autocratic survival. These findings have big implications for “information autocracies” in the digital age.
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reminded me of the “human encyclopedia” from frasier
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this sounds amazing! do you have a syllabus you could share?
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super interesting! i wonder if the persuasive effect is parasitic on something like an automation bias - that there is some trust being bootstrapped by the setting's interface?
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100%
epistemic paternalism sounds great when you like the paternalist
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i think you are correct wrt to information. but i think mis/dis info talk often masks worries about propaganda and various concerns about deceptive influence. these are much harder to articulate in a neutral way, whereas mis/dis info talk perhaps appeals as "debugging" the infosphere.
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ha amusing query. i have a transcript from a cbc radio program about mysticism in canadian art that i've been schlepping from machine to machine since 2002
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you know this one already but i teach this in an interdisciplinary ai ethics seminar and it gets great engagement: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...