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“'If that bot were a person they’d be charged with a principal in first degree murder,' Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said...
The shooter sought advice from ChatGPT on what weapon to use, what ammo to fire, and where he could find the most people to kill on campus, Uthmeier said."
this is absurdly cool
1918 says hi
“Whenever a study participant opened their mouth to speak, Paul, Victor, and Tiago came face-to-face with the fundamentally fragile conditions of their data, which could be delegitimized by anything from a single written letter to the demands of normative masculinity.”
abolish all wiretapping spaghetti pucks immediately
"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
All international orders depend on systematic ignorance production. That’s what I argue in my fresh-out-of-the-oven @iajournal.bsky.social article.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
"When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment." This is really good and very much worth reading.
New Beef
Has he called for 'banning' funding from AIPAC? I'm not sure and have seen no evidence so far.
Opposing AIPAC is good and fine, as is whatever your position is.
hmm, interesting, but curious the context and actual quote.
AIPAC as an organization is a toxic and corrosive force in our politics, obviously, but equal and free speech protections are crucial, obviously too.
Where has he called for "banning" such funding? Curious about the citation.
Today, Palantir posted their manifesto to millions. I published an analysis of exactly this text in @sciasculture.bsky.social, arguing it functions not as political theory but as a corporate manifesto for the nationalist-militarist faction of the tech oligarchy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I, too, own a machine that can traverse 13 miles faster than I can on foot...
"Shock Block Doctrine." And what is so effective about this labile and protean philosophy is how seamlessly it has partnered with academia to defuse dissent. For example, using philathropy to fund research that produces an alternative set of facts and engender doubt--as with climate science denial. We see this happening everywhere with respect to AI and arts and culture, whether it's Refik Anadol being supported by the UN to create an Al-installation "raising awareness" of climate crisis, or the Schmidt Foundation funding an AI post-doc at the Met to every university rushing to set up an AI and Humanities Lab. Some of this work is for the purposes of data extraction and model traning; but much of it is intended simply to get into the public's field of vision and to diffuse ideas about the potentials of AI, even if those potentials have never materialized. The purpose, as Mirowski shows, is extreme agnotology, shocking the system with so much conflicting information as to immobilize people in a perpetual state of doubt. And he marvels that so few academics have figured this out. But he points to
My comments with respect to AI and agnotology from this talk I gave this past week. cdh.princeton.edu/events/sonja...
Pope Leo gets it.
Watching this NIH / MAHA strategy meeting and… it’s pretty wild.
Large scale social murder for profit.
SCOOP: Trump is trying to disguise a sociopathic idea as a garden variety neo-con slogan ('trade over aid'). In fact they are proposing U.S. corporations exploit poor countries as a trough they can eat from, subsidized by public funds, while eliminating lifesaving aid. Gift link: wapo.st/4tg4zI4
organizers be like
This video has been watched more than 40 million times in less than 24 hours. The people want to tax the rich.
maybe be a somewhat kinda normal nominee challenge?
"The idea that billionaires should pay higher tax rates than working people is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship–& where those billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible"
Tax the billionaires to invest in our public health.
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
this is the way.
