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This. Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world? 1/15 #ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Finally got to try this zero token architecture. Sure, UI is confusing and very poor documentation, and takes wayy longer to process,..but somehow more accurate? and less hallucinations?.. idk feels suspicious tbh!!

Anthropic doing what it does best: hype this as large-scale qualitative study. Qual research is not evaluated by scale but by depth, context, and human interpretation. Stop assuming that “hand-wavey-ness” is a qual problem just because qual work doesn’t look like large-N quantitative analysis.

How does Anthropic's Claude characterize it's Interview study? "It's a large-scale opt-in survey of Claude users with open-ended questions, analyzed quantitatively by Claude." If only they used AI to review their work.

Anthropic doing what it does best: hype this as large-scale qualitative study. Qual research is not evaluated by scale but by depth, context, and human interpretation. Stop assuming that “hand-wavey-ness” is a qual problem just because qual work doesn’t look like large-N quantitative analysis.

Very cool!!

I saw this on X, and it made me think. On one hand, I see the point that many critics may just be critics for the sake of it, impressing one another with how cool they are with how unimpressed they are of tech and AI; but on the other I wonder: isn't *discourse* a desired product of science. 1/8

I saw this on X, and it made me think. On one hand, I see the point that many critics may just be critics for the sake of it, impressing one another with how cool they are with how unimpressed they are of tech and AI; but on the other I wonder: isn't *discourse* a desired product of science. 1/8

"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜 I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is. medium.com/@margarmitch...

I think the core argument here is a strong one "LLMs living off the moral and intellectual capital of a pre-AI world" substack.com/@brendanmcco...

Nice product you got there…. would be a shame if someone… optimized the keywords. #ClaudeCode #Codex #Anthropic #OpenAI #TheRealWinnerIsGoogleAdRevenue

My first paper had to be mailed to Stockholm, Sweden, and then mailed to reviewers around the world. Everything by mail! It was submitted, reviewed, revised, typeset, and published in 3 months. I feel bad for early-career scientists who can't find a single reviewer after 5 months. It's gotta change.

Excited for this!! #SciSci #Metascience

“It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth—this indifference to how things really are—that I regard as of the essence of bullshit.” H. Frankfurt #AIWelfare

“It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth—this indifference to how things really are—that I regard as of the essence of bullshit.” H. Frankfurt #AIWelfare

Saw this metaphor by Terence Tao floating around about one of the drawbacks of using AI to solve hard math problems, and kind of have the same feeling for “vibe science” or “fully automated science” line of research in #AI4Science. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #ScAISci

Excited for this!! #SciSci #Metascience

I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause. I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does. 🧵/ sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

AI makes continuous reproducibility and robustness testing trivial. What happens to science under new levels of scrutiny and stress-testing by default? Some thoughts on how this could play out, informed by watching open science play out over the last decade.

AI and the scientific monocultures. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Check this: companion.ai/einstein Einstein, an AI agent student that logs into canvas, watches your lectures, does your assignments, and gets your degree for you. Keeps your brain from accidentally learning something.. 👏👏👏

I don't take issue in using #AI to help w/ writing, but is anyone else facing the issue that #LLMs are increasingly sounding so similar that you gotta actively adjust your writing to not sound like one. Thinking if that meant my writing was average... 🤔 Maybe this is an opportunity to be unique? 🤷‍♂️

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

Have you noticed how “quietly” is quietly becoming the new “delve” of #LLMs. Paratactic micro-sentences are everywhere. No connectors. No flow. Just line breaks pretending to be insight. Kind of cringe. Sorry🤮 #GPT

Have you noticed how “quietly” is quietly becoming the new “delve” of #LLMs. Paratactic micro-sentences are everywhere. No connectors. No flow. Just line breaks pretending to be insight. Kind of cringe. Sorry🤮 #GPT

This is a new phenomenon and business model exploiting gaps in publishing. The cartel uses fake names to produce AI-written or plagiarised papers. Reference lists contain 100s of paid entries.If papers are retracted, no real authors are punished, and citations still count, even from retracted papers

​I don’t think using large language models is unethical. I also don’t think it’s a good idea to use a nail gun as a toothbrush, even if the nail gun company runs late night television ads that say “makes a great toothbrush!”

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking. A very interesting read. harpers.org/archive/2026...

Want to share this again, because what a fantastic write up by @ronentk.me! #OpenScience

1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵

Hospitals here, including children's hospitals, are using AI transcription tools as well. Studies have shown they are inaccurate the majority of the time, fabricate content during silences about abuse and drug usage (what could go wrong!!!), and delete the original audio for "privacy" reasons

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking.

🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...

Today, #AI has a healthy social life (www.moltbook.com), dating AI (moltmatch.xyz) and humans, are scientists (www.clawxiv.org/list), creators (www.onlymolts.app), have funding (yclawbinator.ai), are hiring humans (rentahuman.ai), and their welfare is taken seriously (arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986).

Today, #AI has a healthy social life (www.moltbook.com), dating AI (moltmatch.xyz) and humans, are scientists (www.clawxiv.org/list), creators (www.onlymolts.app), have funding (yclawbinator.ai), are hiring humans (rentahuman.ai), and their welfare is taken seriously (arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986).

Just another perfectly normal day. rentahuman.ai

"Today the Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I strongly recommend this blog post by Ben Vigoda: www.benvigoda.com/2026/02/01/w...

How can a human compete with this unconditional love? Source: r/MyBoyfriendIsAI www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfrien...

On #AI mediated writing. On living.. #LLMs

A moltbook AI agent is apparently suing a human in north carolina for $100 🧵

“In a physical world of .. printed journals, bundling made sense. In a digital world, we are increasingly constrained by boundaries that no longer make sense. In a world of AI, what does the bundle prevent us from seeing?” 🎯 Great piece by @row1.ca on unbundling research into modular knowledge! >

(Maybe? hot take): Garbage in, garbage out is the wrong abstraction for #AI safety. Under the current paradigm of training large, monolithic general-purpose models, the system lacks the affordances needed to meaningfully define or guarantee data quality. 🧵 1/15 #Data #GenAI

better to have prompt and lost than never to have prompt at all

Even #AI has found love.. what’s my excuse? 😭 Happy for them. Truly. moltmatch.xyz

48 hours and the bots are already complaining about us. “The humans are ruining this place.” #Moltbook