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My article on AI for science, in which I characterize a deviant notion of scientific objectivity rooted in the impossible ideal of theory-free inference, is available now open-access in Erkenntnis link.springer.com/article/10…
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Another week of historic developments in the smoke and mirrors sector.
The export control directive banning state of the art language models from Anthropic is only counterproductive to the US AI industry if you don’t view it as yet another act in the current production of AI safety theatrics.
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The unprecedented leap in advancement of Anthropic’s frontier models is one of the number one global news item this week. No technical demonstration was necessary to achieve this effect. That there is successful marketing.
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The export control directive banning state of the art language models from Anthropic is only counterproductive to the US AI industry if you don’t view it as yet another act in the current production of AI safety theatrics.
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That the US government—especially under current administration—is highly susceptible to corporate manipulation—especially from the tech industry—should not come as a surprise.
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The ban is an incredibly successful maneuver if the aim is ham up the drama surrounding supposed ‘snowballing capabilities’ without needing to demonstrate any actual advancement in performance.
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Whether predictive systems can be ethically—or even functionally—used in socially sensitive contexts depends on their epistemic credentials. I am delighted to see my work inform policy recommendations in a new report from Amnesty International. bit.ly/3PYdFea
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ML-based risk profiling systems do not, and cannot perform the social-scientific roles they are saddled with. As such, their use by state actors should be prohibited. Report by Alexander Laufer of
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Gmail very insistent these days that all my emails should be translated to Polish. Any way to turn this feature off (or change language)?
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Honestly, cybersecurity companies have a profit incentive to convince universities of non-existent problems to sell more products. I don't think people talk about this enough.
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Jun 10
Students are showing up to college lacking high school level literacy, universities have no strategic plan for handling it, and the work of remedial education is falling to overworked adjuncts. The future of higher ed depends on our ability to fix this. chronicle.com/article/my-stu…
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Jun 8
Broke: inventing time travel to prevent the birth of Hitler
Woke: inventing time travel to prevent the birth of whoever invented 2FA
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First you must defeat my army. Then you must overcome your oedipal complex. Then you must perform seven miracles. Then you must attain enlightenment. Then you must select all motorcycles or partial motorcycles. Then, and only then, may you see the PDF.
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Unusual activity has been detected from your network. Please clear all cookies, deinstall your browser, reinstall your browser, update your firmware, mount your OS to a virtual machine, throw your laptop out the window, and impale yourself on a spear before reloading this page.
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Two-factor authentication is a fascist conspiracy to make it appear that intellectuals contribute nothing to society by making it impossible for scholars to accomplish even the simplest of tasks.
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The lengths you have to go to sign into Princeton netid, you’d think reading work email is high crime
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Jun 8
trying to view the 40 minutes it takes to get my hands on an ebook as a zen experience
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remember in the early aughts when a university library had digital resources and you didn’t have to answer the gryphon’s riddle kill the dragon and forge the moat just to lay hands on them
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what do you think it would take for me to break into the AI Generated Artificial Fake Bean Plastic Vegetable Party market
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