Hat hier Wolfram Weimer sein Ok gegeben?

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

😱🤯 -- Just looked up the cost to go gold open access at Nature Eco Evo: US$12850! That's $21,600 NZD. That's the same cost as a Royal Society Master's Scholarship! This has gone too far. Absolutely bonkers.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

the US once again sending the message loud and clear: never negotiate, just get nukes. Never compromise, just get nukes. Never give in to sanctions, just get nukes. what could go wrong

the infinite widsom of silicon valley, turning "finding love" and "finding a job" into the exact same process

die entscheidende trennlinie in der migrationsdebatte lautet "der einwanderer als kostenfaktor" vs. "der einwanderer als ressource" - beim arbeitsrecht gewinnt gerade team ressource. aber wo zur hölle ist eigentlich team "der einwanderer als träger von rechten" geblieben? mein kommentar @spiegel.de:

Omg das ist einf @bossrubo.bsky.social

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

Abschiebungen kosteten den Bund letztes Jahr Millionen. Dabei wendeten Polizisten tausendfach Gewalt an. Hoffnung macht das Verhalten der Flugcrews: taz.de/!6156048/

Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building

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I am going to give a course for an online study program adressed at international psychology undergraduates (2nd semester) in research methods. The program of study has an applied focus, as such it should not only be focused on experimental methods. Any textbooks that you would highly recommend?

Meinungsbildung #Demokratie

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

I swear to god, it's like these assholes just want to push my fucking buttons. Your toaster does not 'think', does not want, does not have any agency. NONE of these things have any more agency than a rock. This is psychosis.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

REJECT MODERNITY EMBRACE TRADITION

"The rewards to 'discovering' a spectacular scientific finding [in psychology] are large; the rewards to debunking frauds or deflating exaggerated claims are small if not non-existent. If these are the rules of the game, we should not be surprised at the way the game is played."

I wrote a short essay on what I'm calling the AI Attribution Error. doi.org/10.59350/c3g...

Niemand: Die Kiste in der Straße: „Zu verschenken :)“

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Another strong data point for ‘~30% of the population would vote for Hitler’ theory

funding lotteries have been waiting for this moment

Niemals werde ich die Check in Funktion der DB im Fernverkehr nutzen

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

That suprising feeling when you reviewed a paper that is now published and it turns out, the first author is a former colleague— and you didnt notice it during review. Shout out at omitting needles Self-citations

Eugenics on the Q train

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

What is currently being done to ensure that shared variance (i.e., symptoms) is not constantly confused with shared etiology (i.e., causes) in dimensional models of psychopathology? Asking because I read a certain preprint.

the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.

the internet has decided that em-dashes are a hallmark of llm writing, which is *extremely* annoying to me, as someone who uses em-dashes all the time. dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good

just circling back on 1964 America's priorities

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

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The Big Data fallacy 😱 Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect: buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Quite a day.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

It's only gonna get worse. 🙁

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

jumpscare on instagram @dandekadt.bsky.social

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter. Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.