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lewischuang.bsky.social
Professor for Humans & Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology 🇩🇪 • Quant with Qual-envy • Work-in-Progress • Views are my own
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😍 #TUC represent!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

1/ Can AI be conscious? My Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article on ‘Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is the way. Although, most academic institutions have gotten too big and dependent on federal funding to be able to afford academic freedom.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is my PhD thesis I did not ask for this I did not consent to this I did not approve of this I was not compensated for this I would not have advised this I do not like this And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

I'm watching Rain Man and it opens with Tom Cruise is trouble because his Lamborghini imports, built according to EU standards, cannot pass EPA standards. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

New job in the Department of Psychology at Durham University, UK 🔹️ Successful applicants normally within 8 years of completing PhD or close to submitting 🔹️ 36 month contract 🔹️ Closing date: 22nd May 2025 🔹️ More info: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychJobs

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

As a foreign student, I did not have the finances (after paying tuition) to visit my family during my entire studies. Having my immigration status revoked willy-nilly would have ruined my future.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I read it…

submitted 62 days ago • 671 comments

*there are “1,360 children without confirmed reunifications”* www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

If any journalists are writing about the recent NSF cancellations, I can give you a good example of a grant that was framed as AI workforce development (and is not about misinformation) that seems as if it was cancelled due to a control-F for the word misinformation.

submitted 65 days ago • 9 comments

All kinds of woke. And wonderful.

submitted 66 days ago • 20 comments

If a father ate his child's chocolate egg, but there was no child around to witness it, did he really eat the chocolate egg?

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

This pub uses Gen AI for its kids menu. I'm not sure if they are disrespecting anyone's intellectual creation in doing so. It's simply late stage capitalism. We'll need to find other ways to express ourselves.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Reading [How Democracies Die](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Dem...), written in 2018, and wonder if, like me, no one else bothered to read it until now. If the signs were so clear, why are we still so doomed to be human?

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

❓ Do public universities in the US have academic freedom & the right to self-governance? Or, are private Ivy Leagues special? In Germany, this is protected by the basic law (5.3). "Arts and sciences, research and teaching shall be free..." www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

The support of fascists in democracies is a failure of higher education.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Universities that do their jobs upset fascist authoritarian governments. We do not serve to produce useful employees. We serve to create active participants of society. #tucgether www.tu-chemnitz.de/tu/presseste...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 71 days ago • 590 comments

I used to wonder how any government could send its citizens to concentration camps without anyone caring.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Come work with Teresa Hirzle and me in a fully-funded PhD fellowship on extended reality and behavior change. The full add is at employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16..., the application deadline is May 12th, and we will both be at #chi2025 to discuss. If you are not, feel free to reach out in other ways.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

This semester, I find myself teaching 19 year olds, who scored well enough in exams to get into university, who are unable to download a file from a web page, or how to open a file from within a text editor. In pursuing usability, we might have unintentionally changed technology into magic.

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

Today, Philipp Fabritius taught his first tutorials (3x90 mins) on Creative Coding && submitted his second conference paper for Mensch und Computer since starting in my professorship. Welcome to 🔥🔥🔥. We 🫶 you too.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments