Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture to improve understanding of human cognition and generative AI.
Joined January 2010
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7 Aug 2024
Today, Cognitive Resonance is releasing a new guide titled Education Hazards of Generative AI. This free resource clarifies common misconceptions about how AI works and warns against misuses of this technology in education. Please share this widely.
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25 Nov 2025
"According to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own."
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5 Jun 2025
Hey anything going on around here today? It's been awhile, nice to see everyone.
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15 May 2025
I enjoy listening to Hard Fork 🚩🚩🚩
14 May 2025
When they call it "gen AI" 🚩🚩🚩
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3 Mar 2025
Texas Friends: I am organizing the Stand Up for Science rally taking place this Friday (3/7) at 4p at the State Capitol in Austin. We will be advocating for science and democracy, inquiry and tolerance, and opposing what's happening at the federal level.
eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-fo…
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25 Feb 2025
As we all know, Texans absolutely LOVE it when the state government takes its marching orders from DC.
What a crock of shit.
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17 Feb 2025
There's a war against knowledge happening in America -- which side are you on? It's time to take to the streets.
standupforscience2025.org/
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12 Feb 2025
Is this a fallacy or a strawman? What's seems to be missing in this debate is that LLMs *predictably* struggle at deterministic tasks that are the same level of difficulty. The embers of autoregression still burn today. (I nod toward you @RTomMcCoy!)
11 Feb 2025
I agree with @AmandaAskell. It is a fallacy. It can be appropriate to say both a) that LLMs are next-token predictors, at a mechanistic level, and b) that they have understanding, at another level. (a) is an engineering fact. But the negation of (b) does not follow. 1/2
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7 Jan 2025
Over where the skies are azure, my posts comparing my experience as an investment banker for Enron with some of what I see happening with OpenAI now...has gone viral. Curious? Hit the link in my bio!
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22 Nov 2024
The attorney for the plaintiffs say this case will continue, to which I say, good luck with that. What a waste of teachers' time this has been.
22 Nov 2024
Judge Rebuffs Family’s Bid to Change Grade in #AI Cheating Case - my latest for @The74 the74million.org/article/jud… @benjaminjriley
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22 Nov 2024
I just wrote a quick essay about student plagiarism and AI that prompted the comment "this is about as pure a case of 'f around and find out' as an educator could ask for." Curious?
L i n k i n B i o...and man I can't wait to be rid of this platform.
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20 Nov 2024
Here's what @OpenAI thinks an "interactive quiz" for 10th graders on the Mexican Revolution should consist of. This is literally using the model prompt they suggest in their new AI course for educators.
¡Viva la ed-tech revolucion!
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20 Nov 2024
My first viral, uh, "skeet" over on the other place involves Jordan Peterson suggesting Jiminy Cricket is Jesus Christ. My point is, it's more fun over there now. Come find me and say hi -- same handle as the one here.
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20 Nov 2024
Great to see the incoming Trump Administration nominate yet another Secretary of Education with a long track record of leadership toward improving educational outcomes.
19 Nov 2024
Linda McMahon to become the first Secretary of Education to have been a playable character in WWF No Mercy for the Nintendo 64. x.com/BACStratus_/status/168…
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19 Nov 2024
What if today's large-language models are (basically) as good as they're going to get? I have a new essay exploring the growing awareness that scale is NOT all we need when it comes to creating artificial general intelligence. Link in bio.
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18 Nov 2024
This thoughtful essay from Jason Farago (@jsf) looks to our artistic past regarding automatons so as to understand our present obsession with AI chatbots.
nytimes.com/2024/11/18/arts/…
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15 Nov 2024
When @adeelorama of @magicschoolai posted that Aurora Public Schools students in CO had 28% improvement in literacy scores, I contacted the school district for details. No response. @ddmeyer now reports this "data" is from ONE SINGLE CLASS.
Hucksterism.
magicschool.ai/blog-posts/au…
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15 Nov 2024
@thegrade_ @gtoppo @jillbarshay @Stephen_Sawchuk This is great example of area where reporters can and should probe to help deflate the AI hype that companies are pushing out. I've seen prominent people promote these bullshit "results" from MagicSchool.
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14 Nov 2024
More evidence of LLMs as digital stone soup. Remember, we were told scale is all we need. I've got the receipts!
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