My AI thinks Civics is Black Studies Is there really a civics-sized hole in university curricula?

On redundancy in higher education
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My AI thinks Civics is Black Studies Is there really a civics-sized hole in university curricula?

On redundancy in higher education
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/my-ai-thin...

The most dangerous student on campus Let's hear from the repeat customers

Hint: it's not a first gen student but a second- or third- gen student whose parents know things are going downhill...
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-most-d...

Automatic for the people Rand, Pound, and second-hand prose

If anyone is interested, Ayn Rand would hate AI. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/automatic-...

Automatic for the people Rand, Pound, and second-hand prose

If anyone is interested, Ayn Rand would hate AI. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/automatic-...

Milgram's subjects were never aligned Machine learning shocks

It turns out the obedient participants who inflicted the most shocks weren’t so obedient. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

For the love of God, learn to paragraph LLMs' wrongs redressed

Kids who only read on screens may never learn how a paragraph works and never really learn to read. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/for-the-lo...

What should a university AI czar do? Advice for a flourishing future

Career services will use AI to match the keywords on every graduate’s resume to the keywords on ghost job ads. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/what-shoul...

For the love of God, learn to paragraph LLMs' wrongs unredressed

People who have read more internet prose than long-form journalism or books on the printed page may no longer expect paragraphs to carry meaning at all. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/for-the-lo...

@beaconpress.bsky.social I don't know your books well but there is quite a conversation over at Substack about writers infamous for LLM-writing publishing with Beacon.

Metannoying Your brain on "not X but Y"

I've gotten more notes in the past week thanking my for this explanation of why LLM prose actually makes your brain hurt. It does!
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/metannoying

The AI campus gender wars ahead A call to cancel first-year writing

What happens when young male freshmen, increasingly conservative & highly optimistic about generative AI, are placed in classrooms with non-tenure-track, overwhelmingly female, politically progressive first-year writing faculty hostile to AI?
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-ai-cam...

Why did it take a NYTimes investigation? How a statewide political curriculum dampens serious scholarship

It's the question of the day: hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/why-did-it...

For the love of God, learn to paragraph LLMs' wrongs unredressed

People who have read more internet prose than long-form journalism or books on the printed page may no longer expect paragraphs to carry meaning at all. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/for-the-lo...

Metannoying - Pittsburgh Review of Books In 1994, the College Board removed antonym questions from the SAT. Many of you don’t remember this. I do, because my former Johns Hopkins

“But LLMs are not Shakespeare (yet) and there’s no rhetorical reason for it and worse, there’s no limiting function, which is why you can get 'not x but y' every other paragraph.” —Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social pghrev.com/metannoying/

Why did it take a NYTimes investigation? How a statewide political curriculum dampens serious scholarship

It's the question of the day: hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/why-did-it...

The AI campus gender wars ahead A call to cancel first-year writing

What happens when young male freshmen, increasingly conservative & highly optimistic about generative AI, are placed in classrooms with non-tenure-track, overwhelmingly female, politically progressive first-year writing faculty hostile to AI?
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-ai-cam...

Your LLM needs a grandmother A response to Acemoglu, Kong, and Ozdaglar

In fact people who have been around a while know a thing or two. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

The Great Syllabus Stagnation What Hayek tells us about the coming higher ed collapse

More on keeping innovation out of higher Ed. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

The dark ocean and swelling waters were nothing

Metannoying Your brain on "not X but Y"

I've gotten more notes in the past week thanking my for this explanation of why LLM prose actually makes your brain hurt. It does!
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/metannoying

Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

Such an important story. theconversation.com/persian-gulf...

AI and the Last Mile 2. The principle of subsidiarity

The great paradox of modern AI is that companies like Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI pursue ever-larger models and more centralized data collection while simultaneously promising more "personalized" experiences. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

"...as it turns out..." Rejoice your LLM doesn't talk this way (yet)

"As it turns out" is a wholly human phrase. AI does not use it, as it turns out....
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/as-it-turn...

It's Later Than You Think The starkest view

Are people understanding yet? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/its-later-...

Your LLM needs a grandmother A response to Acemoglu, Kong, and Ozdaglar

Human evolution built one candidate stabilizer against knowledge collapse. Guess who? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/your-llm-n...

The rule is you can't call yourself a thought leader but can be glad when @chronicle.com calls you (or rather me) a thought leader on AI and higher education. Do read the piece: hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-rumsfe...

Allowing Failure Milton's marketplace > Mill's

"You see why university leaders prefer Mill’s marketplace to Milton’s. Getting rid of bad books and temptations appeals to parents and is easier on the legal bills."

@anecdotal.bsky.social taking down the Nudge idea, Nov 25.

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Metannoying Your brain on "not X but Y"

The higher your verbal SAT scores, the more you're bothered by LLM-generated prose, it turns out. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/metannoying

Metannoying Your brain on "not X but Y"

The higher your verbal SAT scores, the more you're bothered by LLM-generated prose, it turns out. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/metannoying