Lee Konstantinou
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The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk.
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Move Fast and Kill All Humans | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Ever since he was little, Eliezer Yudkowsky wanted to save the world. A precocious teenager, a self-described “genius,” Yudkowsky skipped high school and college to devote himself to trying to bring i...
https://arcmag.org/move-fast-and-kill-all-humans/
about 2 months ago
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The hand cramps are a feature not a bug! We must protect our students from RSI.
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The real innovation will be when AI is good enough to instantly fabricate not only the citation but the whole underlying invented text itself.
5 days ago
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Writing about James, but finding myself much more interested in The Trees.
11 days ago
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New frontiers in viewpoint diversity.
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16 days ago
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Have figured out how to save the major. We just rename ourselves, "Artificial Intelligence (and English)."
24 days ago
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Who wants to join the board of my new venture, The Journal of Human Narratives Studies?
about 1 month ago
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Teaching my 2yo to make coffee in the morning. Still working out the kinks.
about 1 month ago
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Will ChatGPT be, eh, joining the dialogue? Gotta include all the stakeholders, after all.
about 1 month ago
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Can you spend most of a workday entering custom metadata in dozens of idiosyncratic and subtly different LOR forms? Let's find out!
about 1 month ago
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The plot of every "Pluribus" episode seems to be figuring out how to spend $15 million in under 50 minutes.
about 1 month ago
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Thanks, ChatGPT—you’re making me blush.
about 1 month ago
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Really struggling with Sunk Anecdote Fallacy in this chapter.
about 1 month ago
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Tenebræ LeSpark is a truly great Pynchon name.
about 1 month ago
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Every social media platform is deranged in its own way, but might Substack have won the derangement games?
about 1 month ago
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Look, the goal was always just to let federal workers enjoy a 40-day paid (?) vacation. Did you think there was some other plan?
about 2 months ago
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Academic trade books with no index?! Why? 😭
about 2 months ago
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Can't wait.
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about 2 months ago
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Fast take: "Pluribus" links midcentury critiques of mass culture to contemporary discourses on AI slop, which seems somehow related (though not sure how) to its dogged commitment to letting auteur-showrunners spend as much money as possible on every episode.
about 2 months ago
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“If you live under late capitalism, historicize. If you live under nascent techno-feudalism, run!”
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about 2 months ago
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What could go wrong? 😑
about 2 months ago
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"Not just X but Y" is the new "delve"—not just a lexical AI tell but a formula now forever banished from my prose. Well, now.
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about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Lee Konstantinou
Günter Leypoldt
about 2 months ago
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
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Look, if I just perfect the anti-AI language on my syllabus, I think we’ll be just fine.
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about 2 months ago
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Four weeks of Grokipedia entries should just about cover it.
about 2 months ago
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Autocorrect wants to change "praxeology" to "proctology" which seems somewhat apt.
about 2 months ago
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Lee Konstantinou
Jan Jęcz
about 2 months ago
@lkonstan.bsky.social
wrote a great essay explaining why, highly recommend
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Mythic Capital | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
In 1993, Giorgia Meloni—now Italy’s prime minister and leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy—attended a revival of Camp Hobbit. The original Camp Hobbit was staged in 1977 by the youth wing of the...
https://arcmag.org/mythic-capital/
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Lee Konstantinou
The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk.
arcmag.org/move-fast-an...
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Move Fast and Kill All Humans | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Ever since he was little, Eliezer Yudkowsky wanted to save the world. A precocious teenager, a self-described “genius,” Yudkowsky skipped high school and college to devote himself to trying to bring i...
https://arcmag.org/move-fast-and-kill-all-humans/
about 2 months ago
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The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk.
arcmag.org/move-fast-an...
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Move Fast and Kill All Humans | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Ever since he was little, Eliezer Yudkowsky wanted to save the world. A precocious teenager, a self-described “genius,” Yudkowsky skipped high school and college to devote himself to trying to bring i...
https://arcmag.org/move-fast-and-kill-all-humans/
about 2 months ago
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Apple's Weather app failed me.
2 months ago
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Ready for ASAP/16.
2 months ago
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What if we just let Canvas stay down… forever?
2 months ago
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Is this not the exact plot of You've Got Mail?
2 months ago
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I have for several years been obsessed with so-called PKM tools -- it's what I play with instead of Being Productive -- and I think I've finally found an actual long-term winner with the db version of logseq (which is still not formally released).
2 months ago
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The original *Arkanoid* jingle has been stuck in my head all day.
2 months ago
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After all the critiques of the sociology of literature, I am reduced to defensively arguing that a text is, you know, not *not* an allegory of its conditions of production, right?
3 months ago
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One minor detail.
3 months ago
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Ayyyy!
3 months ago
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Where were you when you discovered that Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s dissertation advisor was Jürgen Habermas? 🤯
3 months ago
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I am glad Murderbot turned out good.
3 months ago
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Before they’re done the men leading our major AI labs are gonna not only discover the secrets of intelligence but — more importantly — speed(re)run the history of 20c literary theory. They coulda just majored in English.
3 months ago
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I am so happy to announce we’re starting a new major in LLM Prompting. I hear it’s the future.
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3 months ago
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I’m convinced. Gonna give this “reading” thing a try.
3 months ago
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reposted by
Lee Konstantinou
Laura McGrath
3 months ago
Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26! (Cover reveal soon!)
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Trying to explain to my 7yo what linear television was.
3 months ago
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Pretty sure we’re gonna nuke that asteroid. You know, mostly as a show of strength.
3 months ago
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Just learned the word “methodolatry” which I wish I’d learned sooner. 😜
3 months ago
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See, if you just wait long enough, reality will provide you with the perfect anecdote to open the conclusion of the book you are writing.
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3 months ago
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Who knew living in a cyberpunk dystopia would be so boring.
3 months ago
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Important also that students and faculty not be given or allowed to use email either. 🤔
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3 months ago
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I managed to leave just as the questions were getting hard! 🤪
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