thomascheney.bsky.social
Academic, (outer) Space Governance at Northumbria University. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Working on project 'Life the Ultimate Frontier'. He/him.
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hell thats basically the ad for gemini, turns a short concise email into lengthy word salad!
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yep
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and just in general I think a lot of things that went away with the general trust that modernity has allowed will return - personal networks will probably become vital because that trust will no longer be there so you'll need an in person introduction and recommendation from that person you trust
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so public notary for me i think
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my wifes already seeing an increase in demand for witnessed wet signatures in her job (EA to C-suite executive)
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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like i did a module on genocide at university and we explored plenty of offensive things but it was treated as an important intellectual endeavour not a shock and awe campaign
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this is the truly horrible thing about late term abortion scare mongering, a) its super rare and b) no one is getting to late term and terminating a pregnancy on a whim
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almost as bad as that show Nikita which was not about everyone's favourite shoe wielding general secretary of the communist party
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they write the first draft of history after all, and like most first drafts its usually not great
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(the black hole here, too, is how can you possibly evaluate the analysis that your LLM produces if you are not trained to interpret, analyze, historicize?) everything is amazing if you know nothing
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of course the treaty is the main thing but we aslo dont need to speculate about what cold war era western politicians and diplomats thought beyond the treaty text there are plenty of memos
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'Universities will not be able to submit the work of staff who have been made compulsorily redundant if it is published after they have been sacked. However, universities will...set their own approach to the submission of outputs from...those “who have been selected for voluntary redundancy..”.' 2/2
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also theres a fruitful line of work in critising the work of people who clearly havent actually read the source work theyre quoting (happens with John Locke all the bloody time)
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www.rcog.org.uk/news/rcog-ra...
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Did we spend decades assigning research-oriented written work just to add some ~variety? Or does it measure entirely different abilities that we also try to build in students over the course of a degree? If the latter, the 'answer' to AI cannot be 'let's just never do them again'.