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Are you arguing that "mental images" aren't real because they don't involve muscle tensions? On your view, if images are correlated with subtle contractions of eye muscles, would that support the claim that they are "real and experienced" without appeal to language games?
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bsky.app/profile/erip...
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1000 in the rain in Maplewood, NJ
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TIL there's a twitch schedule.
It requires a minimum weekly stream, it won't tolerate our rebellious once-a-month routine.
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See also www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaT...
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Should be a broligarch by now
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Called it
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But perhaps it's okay for the services to suggest different cheeses to different language communities. It's easy to imagine either community would be upset if shown the other's list. But does this reasoning also justify the different responses re: bombs and creation in Arabic? Good questions!
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The fact that gen AI has different cheese preferences in different languages is a great example for thinking through bias in machine learning. My student's initial reaction was that the services ought to provide consistent results regardless of language.
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The students showed me these findings, and we tried brainstorming other potential differences across languages. I suggested asking for the best cheeses. Sure enough, if you ask gen AI for the best cheeses, they give completely different answers when you ask in English vs French.
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Looking for other differences between languages, they found that asking Gemini for information on building a bomb received a quick denial in English and Spanish. The French response includes emergency services. The Arabic response goes into why bombs are bad and encourages peaceful alternatives.
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Bill Bechtel's "Why do biologists use so many diagrams" snuck into my phil mind syllabus one year amidst his other papers on organization and mechanism. The paper is mostly about science communication, barely fits the course, but my students love it. core.ac.uk/download/pdf...
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At a teaching workshop last week, someone said that we shouldn't tell jokes in class because they might be taken the wrong way.
But surely this rule doesn't apply to *good* jokes.
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I've spent most of the day building out the lore and backstory for these corporations.
The backstory is completely irrelevant for the assignment, but it makes me feel better about having students play through the scenario.
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Putting all our eggplants in one basket.
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Surely it depends on the spell
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"we exist" the way bedbugs and herpes exist