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Dad, teacher, some kind of philosopher, writer, hiker

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Z @inwaves.bsky.social · 13h
It’s so sad that she doesn’t see that it’s the opposite. *Reading* would make the readings easier to understand. Using AI makes it harder because she doesn’t learn.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And of course, a big reason a public healthcare system is allegedly bad is that people will supposedly overuse healthcare if it’s available to them.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Oh, you want to abolish ICE? Well, if they're gone, who's going to be terrorizing our cities and killing people in the streets? Huh? Did you think about that?"
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/09/2026
“Scholars have groped for what even to call this dire diminishment of intellectual capacity. “Human enfeeblement” has been proposed, and alike “cognitive surrender” and even “cognitive extinction.” (You could also call it, “losing your mind.”)” - Jill Lepore www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson
Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bender 2026: Artificial Intelligence. (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society.) doi.org/10.1093/9780... Preprint: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...
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Validate User
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...
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You Are Not a Parrot
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trying to imagine what Republicans would be saying if a Democratic president had started a war, run up huge deficits, spiked inflation, and then promised to give everyone $5000.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tell David Cahn to add $22m in *checks notes* compute to ingest someone else's notes into training in his $600b CapEx estimate
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of people misinterpreting this one -- whew. We need that evidence to evaluate the company's claim that their system did any 'autonomous' math, not to evaluate whether or not the counterexample is a counterexample. >>
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Alias Messier @amampersand.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Last week, I provided students with my Reasons to Hate AI mini comic, & now you can have it, too. Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for suggestions & so many for the accumulated info, esp. @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social , @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If the world is morally ordered, the virtuous thrive and the wicked suffer. Today's post explores some versions of this view and what might explain, undermine, or reverse a correlation between virtue and thriving: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/09/type...
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Types and Conditions of Moral Order
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wonderful thread! I'm going to put out Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' (in the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation), which I've read a couple times but am in need of re-reading. The book is so immersive I forget that I'm reading for long stretches of time.
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
When “plain English” isn’t a good thing.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And here's Jad writing about Dolly today. That aspect of how she gently but firmly exerted absolute control of herself and her world comes across in the interviews that are part of Jad's podcast. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/o...
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Opinion | What Dolly Parton Told Me (Gift Article)
Trailing Dolly Parton around the world, I witnessed so many small moments in which she’d gracefully own her power without the slightest hint of fight.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just yuck. Yuck to AI avatars of instructors, yuck to Harvard business school being able to do this b/c there will always be a premium on F2F elite school instruction, and yuck to this puff piece in the NYTs
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Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty (Gift Article)
To create a new bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. avatars of its instructors.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026
Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Powerful piece. “Here is a thing about being good at thinking. Being good at thinking involves the ability not only to recognize your own stupidity but the ability to be patient with it, to stay the course and thereby navigate yourself out of the nomansland of confusion.“
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This one hit hard and close to home.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Always impressed by the creativity of these threads, but this one in particular is comic gold…
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
She ran a CrossFit gym, which is basically a swinger's club that produces orthopedic injuries
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These comics by @dinosaurcouch.bsky.social are too relatable. I love them
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thinking fast ("wtf?"), then thinking slow ("oh")
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Really great interview w/Chandra Sripada on Carroll’s Mindscape podcast on whether LLMs exhibit some human like cognitive features. I’m more skeptical than he is on this, but it’s an engaging interview, and he offered some great cases (embedding, Stroop effects) that are fun to think about.
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363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins
Podcast Episode · Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · August 10 · 1h 52m
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse
Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
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philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Obviously, this clinches it
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
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These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw.
What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn?
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Going to do a thread, using some of my own (incl. older) work, to clear up some of these relevant concepts. Hope it helps builds conceptual hygiene and immunity to hyped claims about “AI” capabilities. 1/🧵
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/08/2026
This is pretty straightforward, and it's weird to me that people are against it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The news story about Donald Trump being desperate for immunity for tax fraud & the news story about Donald Trump being kicked to the curb by Capital One for widespread money laundering are RELATED.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 03/08/2026
Are we at the point where our technology is actually “reasoning,” or should that word still live within its quotation marks? www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason…
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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Fauci show trial is an amazing illustration of the fundamental immaturity and insecurity of the modern right. What really outrages them is that he dared to suggest that people make sacrifices for the common good. So much of X/techbro/manosphere thought is just insisting that should never happen.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August as an academic
Tabbycat in tie say he hopes he doesn’t have a lot of meetings… while in the background is a lots of meetings factory
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Also, people "care" about many things. They can only take action on a very few of those and usually the people implying you don't care enough about something know this (based on their own experiences).
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