@dryohanjohn.bsky.social i saw you video w Paul Cisek again on Youtube -- hopefully in the coming weeks will have more to say to you about it.
BTW, have you written anything about complexity and symmetry breaking? (or would recommend one out of the many things you've written? )
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
Broken symmetries / frozen accidents: Anderson's idea, central to Krakauer's framework. Complex systems are the product of accumulated historical contingencies that break the symmetries physics depends on.Each broken symmetry creates a new degree of freedom that can't be derived from the level below
“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...
It is challenging to soberly make and tend to this space, but I believe it is what, in the mezzo-macro, intermediary, bridging sense, is required.
The correct attitude at this time has to be something akin to the better parts of #Hamilton.
We need to cultivate and empower the sense in others that the responsible creation of 'a more perfect union' is in the balance, if not actually is tenable.
Having nuance and sobriety about both of these things is much more rare than it should be. But there is sympathy to be had some, since the actual preparation we've all had about this is paltry. #AI #AIBubble #technology
particularly appealing to those 'very concerned' about AI (the big money centers) shapes -- *how we talk about various fields of study* -- and, downstream, how it is reported by the media. Two things can be true at the same time: Big AI Lab's LLMs are dramatically different than they were last year
A quick thought today re AI Bubble and other popular items: I'm not sure how much folks outside of the "fighting for funding as a nonprofit" space (no less startups proper) realize how much hoop-jumping is happening (read: required / heavily incentivized) to make whatever you are doing AI related,
From the great Cal Newport: "In 2016 my main concern was helping people find enough free time for deep work. Today I think we’re rapidly losing the ability to think deeply at all."
He calls for a national wellness movement arounds screens, the same way as we popularized exercise in the 60s:
Wrote about the legal innovation, the #McLuhan connection, and what it means for anyone building systems that shape behavior: blog.jesparent.com/p/design-is-... #meta #youtube
That principle is already extending: Character.AI settled chatbot suits in January, and as of this morning, the same legal theory is being applied to sports betting apps.
www.sportico.com/law/analysis... #sportico
Two social media #verdict s in 48 hours. $381M combined. Everyone's reaching for Big Tobacco, and the structural parallels are real.
But the precedent carries. A jury ruled that platform design can be defective, independent of what users do with it. #meta #youtube #instagram
Wrote about the legal innovation, the McLuhan connection, and what it means for anyone building systems that shape behavior:
blog.jesparent.com/p/design-is-... #mediumismessage #youtube #meta #verdict
Wrote about the legal innovation, the McLuhan connection, and what it means for anyone building systems that shape behavior: blog.jesparent.com/p/design-is-...
taking a tour of Ethan's posts I liked...
Still thinking about this: @emollick.bsky.social
"Coca Cola, Sometimes War"
#music #rammstein
youtu.be/Rr8ljRgcJNM?...
Guess we’re going to have to defend ourselves from the governments lack of giving a care.
A lot of AI/ML relies on sampling from large datasets. These samples need to be relatively unbiased in order to get good performance. Animals learn continually from highly correlated — and therefore biased — behavioral episodes. Is there work exploring how brains circumvent the issue of bias?
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"As AI-augmented research proliferates, the scope of scientific inquiry is contracting."
www.ft.com/content/0c63... [paywalled]
the institutions governing AI were built for a different century. that's not a metaphor.
meanwhile xAI's grok, which has generated millions of deepfakes and was raided by french prosecutors, is already on classified networks under the exact "all lawful use" terms the pentagon wants.
you can't be both too dangerous to work with and too essential to lose. the contradiction tells you the dispute isn't really about legality. it's about control.
anthropic's deadline is 5:01 PM today.
the pentagon is using a korean war statute designed for steel mills to try to compel an AI company to drop its safety guardrails while simultaneously threatening to label that same company a supply chain risk
Beyond education at large, there's already been in lots of Envision-related conversation about how technology is impacting knowledge generation, AI & careers, and being agile in a world where traditional structures and businesses are being disrupted.
#princeton #princetonenvision
Join us this weekend at Envision @ Princeton! I'll be a part of the Future of AI in Education Panel alongside excellent squad of Tammy Kwan, Amber Berry, and Morgan Mifflin!
@jopro-org.bsky.social @orthogonal-lab.bsky.social #AI #EdTech #Education #AIworkforce
