Profile avatar
benradford.bsky.social
Asst. Professor @ UNCC. Computational social science. Machine learning, Bayesian stats, political conflict, forecasting, cybersecurity, international relations. Signal: brr.37 https://www.pandas-lab.com www.benradford.com
8 posts 583 followers 809 following
Getting Started
Posts 8 Comments 4

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

submitted 8 hours ago • 40 comments

Even if AGI was the solution to government, the guy preparing us for it has claimed for decades now that his companies are months away from full self driving cars and colonies on Mars

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Silicon Valley oligarchs who gained power and are now dismantling the govt are basically millenarian cultists, convinced the world is about to end—via AGI—and acting accordingly in advance. Smart piece. But if it turns out the world doesn't actually end in a year or two? Oops. Very serious oops.

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Every day I think to myself "surely we've hit peak stupidity" and yet

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping: www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

What is the process by which university accrediting bodies would revoke accreditation?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Ugh do I hate copyright law or AI companies more?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It’s finally here—just got my first author's copies of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular"! Excited for more folks to check it out. And hey, even if my evidence and arguments don’t win you over, at least the cover will look great in any room.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments