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Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine | researching and teaching IPE, financial politics, global inequality | fan of plants, birds, snacks, sci-fi, quilting | she/her
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ICE victims are currently imprisoned in the basement of a DTLA federal building.
Access is tightly controlled, and folks seeking to meet with their family members, friends, or clients have to wait in a fly-infested, dark, and seatless concrete hallway exposed to heat and other elements.
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First up, very very close to my heart rn, CHILD CARE PRICES 💀
They're up once again and outpacing inflation. In almost every state, child care for two kids costs more than a mortgage and rent. In 41 states, infant care exceeds in-state college tuition.
19thnews.org/2025/06/chil...
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Relatedly:
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An essential part of cringe, in addition to the misogyny, is the assumption that the speaker/actor thinks they are accomplishing more than they are through a political act. But, like, no individual political act accomplishes much of anything and few participants in mass politics say otherwise!
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And all the more embarrassing if that participation involves feminine-coded expression! (Knit hats, handmade signs, quilts)
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I generally enjoy The Onion and I too find various forms of political engagement cringe (e.g., the inane nicknames for Trump), but I am intrigued by my impulse to label some things cringe and how that lines up with broader social trends. To me, The Onion ad is cringe.
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Yes, and it seems to assume feminine-coded political participation is at best performative, as opposed to an unspecified "real" engagement with politics. The Onion ad is intriguing because it's clearly performative but I would guess its readership skews male which insulates it from being cringe.
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Indeed, it's all the more reason to insist on (smart) public regulation, rather than relying on the industry to self-regulate via this kind of voluntary stress-testing via red teaming.
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And yes, we should be cautious about negative hype from the AI industry and its potential to allow big AI firms to shape regulation in ways that are favorable to their corporate interests, but just because it's sometimes to firms' advantage to emphasize AI risks does not mean we should ignore them.
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Longer write-up of the Anthropic study here: www.anthropic.com/research/age...
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(The paper does specify the LLM group used ChatGPT-4o, though.)
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Ah, thanks! I figured it was something like that.
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Is the intention to prevent the full paper from being used without compensation/citation in LLM training data? To catch out LLMs referencing the paper by including some odd bit of stray or incorrect information?
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That's right. Here's a good simple example that illustrates what they're up to.
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Hempel's raven paradox is in its training data, the logically equivalent "crow paradox" of course is not. The LLM is not reasoning; it's doing very fancy word association.
(People know this, but because it's so good at the very fancy word association, they often forget.)
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Geofencing, maybe? But that's easily evaded with a VPN.
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You could label the coasters "overdraft protection."
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*correctly in terms of accuracy, not ethics, obviously
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I hope so, but the basic structure of a modified unholy trinity (monetary sovereignty/currency stability/markets open to USD stablecoins) seems quite plausible to me.
(in addition to the more familiar stablecoin risks: liquidity risk, bank runs, convertibility issues, ambiguous backstopping, etc.)
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Huge congratulations to Drs. Nahreen Aref and Alisson Rowland, two of UCI Political Science's newest PhDs, both of whom I successfully co-hooded and hooded without mishap last night 🎉🎉🎉