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submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I regret to inform you that Stephen Pinker is back on his bullshit

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Steven Pinker has got to be pound for pound the worst public intellectual we have

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

incredible lack of self-awareness from Pinker here

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

There’s the weaponization of open science y’all. Basically ripped from @cos.io’s website. The ROI for leaders speaking up is the highest it will be now, and only decline over time as these policies take shape and grow teeth.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Very upsetting to see. The gov't is weaponizing the reform movement as a way to strangle scientific progress on racism, climate, vaccines, crime, anything they don't like. A lot of folks warned about this exact possibility for years and the need to take it seriously and were treated like crackpots.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Business dudes have been suckered by “yo, this computer thinks” since the 1950s.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Hey @themacdonald.bsky.social do you get off by harassing Grandmas in war zones?

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Seeing threads about Google Veo 3, and seriously puzzled about how people cannot see these videos are all extremely fake, stochastic patchwork. Everyone so "impressed" again, yet these systems still have no clue what ‘hands’ are.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

>would kill the AI industry imagine thinking that this would be a bad thing.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

i have been hesitant to participate in the “AI for Good” Summit, that takes place in Geneva annually. but this year, i have been given a keynote (not a panel or similar participation) so, i said yes. here’s the first draft of my talk

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Telling people "so I asked chatgpt..." should be as embarrassing and shameful as telling them "so I slurped down a bowl full of steaming liquid human shit." The only proper reaction is disgust and revulsion.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Whatever hype you are reading now about powerful people will almost certainly turn out to be bullshit

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

AI agents don't read, but I do. And call me a radical, but I don't dream of a future where society replaces actual critical analysis of the tech industry with the tech industry's own AI products

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

A key quote from the article " @irisvanrooij.bsky.social sees tools like ChatGPT as disastrous for academic development. ‘Your own brain is turned off. The purpose of a university is to learn to think independently and critically.’ " 👏🏼🗣️

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Apropos of six book talks in six days with @alexhanna.bsky.social some students helped me today to come up with names for the days of the week the second time around when you didn't get a weekend: Monsterday Twosday Againsday Furthersday Friedday

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

“Effective immediately, Signal for Windows will by default block the ability of Windows to screenshot the app.”

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Several people have responded with "I use it all the time, it bullshits less nowadays if used correctly." Does it? Or has prolonged exposure to its flood of bullshit made you worse at perceiving the bullshit?

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

“In her order Wednesday, U.S. Senior District Judge Anne Conway rejected some of the defendants’ free speech claims, saying she’s ‘not prepared’ to hold that the chatbots’ output constitutes speech ‘at this stage.’”

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

hi i'm ben your ai chatbot

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

I've felt for a while that a mainstream method, reverse engineering, in cognitive science & AI is incompatible w computationalism‼️ So I wrote "Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering" w the wonderful Natalia S. & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social to elaborate: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25289/ 1/n

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

sifting through submitted papers (bidding) for a top ml conference & struck by how many papers are on audits/evaluation. this type of work would have remained at the fringe a few years ago. i only looked at titles ofc, it doesn’t mean any of this work can contribute to any meaningful accountability

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"90% of medieval English altars contained hidden stone phalluses" factoid actually just statistical error. Most medieval English altars were destroyed in 1552. Phalloi Georg, who lives in a cave and has an altar with over 100,000 stone phalluses, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I simply do not tire of looking at this

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

Marcy Rheintgen is 20 years old—she’s facing 11 months in prison for washing her hands in the correct bathroom; she was arrested and spent time in a men’s prison, for washing her hands in the correct bathroom. Here she is in her own words: www.instagram.com/reel/DJKGqoy...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment