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When a user attributes consciousness to a chatbot, does it affect trust? In this new study, we guessed people more willing to attribute consciousness to chatGPT would trust it more on a factual matter - but found substantial evidence AGAINST this. (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Honey, I’ve been ignoring previous instructions for years now

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Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Feeling slightly better about my AI future now that a friend told me CTOs are saying things like "build is cheaper than buy because of GenAI" 😂😂

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Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has died.

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As someone who believes that your system is absolutely riddled with bugs, and incidents are perfect-storm unique combinations of bugs and unexpected interactions, focusing efforts on preventing the last incident is like believing you're more likely to win the lottery if you use last week's numbers.

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When I write consistently, I write better. When I write better, I get the urge to look over my pages again in the evening. When I look over my pages, it primes me to wake up the next day knowing what to do and wanting to do it. It’s a virtuous cycle and I’m doing everything I can to keep it going.

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The difference between creating “a gigantic plagiarism laundering apparatus” and “a vibrant commons of the human knowledge” is social and not technical. No technology can make the former become the latter. Or protect anyone from it.

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Hey, writers! Last chance to register for Getting Your Novel Unstuck. We'll meet on 5/18, 6/1, and 6/8. Join us! cariluna.com/getting-your...

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Me: Just a heads up this medication I have to take for a couple weeks makes me grumpy. Friend: Were you not grumpy before?

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Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

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DDD Europe is just a few weeks away — preconference workshop days are June 2-3; conference is June 4-6: 2025.dddeurope.com/schedule/ Very excited! Still space in my workshop, focusing on bringing design attention to evolving systems — it’s a wonderful group to learn with and from!

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Getting older is cool because you learn to putter in your garden and then you recognize that time passes, not in days on the calendar, but in the following order: daffodils tulips alliums tree peonies columbine rhododendrons in my location

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Accurate

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Fondly remembering today my neuro prof in undergrad telling me, roughly, that philosophy of science is completely useless, and no one should study it, because we just know that falsification is how science works

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getting frustrated with my Pictionary partner bc im furiously drawing a skull and he won't say "3"

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Hi... If I have to fill out a 30 page questionnaire before you tell me the price of your product/subscription... I can GUARENTEE I am ABSOLUTELY 100% NEVER going to buy anything from you. What is wrong with every frickin website on the internet?

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You're fine. You're just in the beautiful bullshit ass journey part or something

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As a comms expert and socialist, my grand theory of LLMs/Copilot/etc is that the reason people look at the garbage these machines produce and go "this looks plausible and coherent" is because a huge amount of the text humans produce in their actual jobs is also insubstantial waffle 🧵

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Also worth noting, on Indie Bookstore Day, that Libro.fm is having an incredible sale which will directly support the local bookshop of your choice. libro.fm/sale/all

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I think we can safely say that "The Information Age" is over. It's so much harder to get reliable information now than it was even a decade ago. We went from books to digital books to digital databases to just asking a computer to lie to us.

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Control panel of the day #HCI

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This is a wonderful software design focused conference (with pre-conference workshops too). Great to mention in work slack, community discords, etc. too. Goodness knows, we need to get better at this design thing, and this is a great community to explore that with, and learn from.

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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

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Every senator and member of Congress should immediately and voluntarily disclose any stock, bond, or similar trades they have made in the last ten days.

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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

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Humans project tactile sensations from a tool into space, as if part of the body. How? We show tactile feedback is projected into gaze-centered coordinates, offering a framework for tool-based sensory projection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pmedendorp.bsky.social

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If I ran an online 6-week creative writing course on philosophical fiction with a focus on Ursula Le Guin, would you sign up? €195 for the whole course, but I would also make sure there were some free places and some subsidised places. I'm also thinking of doing an Iris Murdoch focused one, too.

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And I'm free Free fallin', fallin' And I'm free Free fallin', fallin'

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March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

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