I'm someone who spends a lot of time thinking about LLMs, and I have no idea how they would improve the selection of targets in a war. Except for one obvious affordance - they offload accountability.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

If it's true that Windows 12 has minimum system requirement of a 40 TOPS dedicated NPU to run local AI, then Windows has lost the plot chasing AI worse than any of us have feared. www.pcworld.com/article/3068...

It’s clear (to me) from LLM debates on here about whether AI can produce a good literature review that there are two paradigms of lit review at work. 🧵…

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me: starfish Scientist: not a fish me: jellyfish Scientist: not a fish me: seahorse Scientist: fish

@ethanlandes.bsky.social this feels like a bad consequence of the broadening of 'enshittification' from a rentier phenomenon to a general diagnosis of the problems of the age

I hit my patience for Microsoft enshittification and reinstalled Ubuntu today. When I tried Ubuntu in the past, I didn't love it and quickly gave it up, but now Ubuntu has very clearly surpassed Windows 11 as the better work OS.

Cool informational tool for combating the sense that LLMs are conscious: whenaiseemsconscious.org

I desperately want to get back into gravel cycling and bikepacking, and I have everything I need except a bike frame. I do have a damaged steel frame, but as far as I can tell, the nearest frame builder is 3 hours away. So every few months I look up the price of steel frames and sigh.

"Why isn't the media covering X?" Brother in Christ, there are 15 hits on google news from the last day alone

Related: please only say "why is no one talking about X" if, in fact, no one is talking about it.

The word "enshittification" was coined by Doctorow to mean a 3-step process popular in tech of luring in then profiting off consumers, but the word is broadening to mean any sort of product degradation So it's really interesting to see both uses coexist like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Reviving this in light of recent news about OpenAI and the US Department of Defense

Super interesting. I’ve been thinking about cognitive burdens lately and when I’m stretched it’s often tempting to think “Somebody just please tell me what to do here.” Even small decisions like what kind of pizza to order. At that point, I don’t want to evaluate reasons. As long as it doesn’t…

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Oh lovely. Not entirely surprising, sadly.

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...

In a forthcoming paper we found little evidence that those persuaded by LLM-generated moral advice were evaluating the reasons in the advice in any meaningful way. Nor were they less persuaded by an LLM that had previously produced obviously flawed outputs philarchive.org/rec/LANPDT-2

In a forthcoming paper we found little evidence that those persuaded by LLM-generated moral advice were evaluating the reasons in the advice in any meaningful way. Nor were they less persuaded by an LLM that had previously produced obviously flawed outputs philarchive.org/rec/LANPDT-2

Using a blog as a writing tool was going great, until someone actually subscribed

St Anselm: By definition, God is the greatest being. An existent being is better than a non-existent one, so if God doesn't exist, we can imagine a greater being. But by definition we can't imagine a greater being. Therefore God exists. 1000 years later:

St Anselm: By definition, God is the greatest being. An existent being is better than a non-existent one, so if God doesn't exist, we can imagine a greater being. But by definition we can't imagine a greater being. Therefore God exists. 1000 years later:

My favorite bit of engineering lore is that before the mid-20th century, instead of ball bearings, train axles were just stuffed with oily rags. Which would sometimes just catch on fire and could derail the train. Which is where we get the term "hot box".

Reading multi-paper beefs between academics is so much more fun when you have no skin in the game

Elsevier, why are you like this? I specifically remember entering this information in Editorial Manager

Philosophers, specifically philosophy of language nerds: Are there any clear examples of successfully defined or explicated concepts in the humanities? Every example I can think of (e.g., square, planet, watt) are from the sciences

Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii

After living as an American in the UK for a decade, my spelling is a mess. I sometimes swap from British to American spelling mid-sentence. Last week I submitted two papers only noticing during final proofreading that one was in American English and one was in British English.

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The Supreme Court:

#linguistics bluesky: how confident can we be that "and/or" will eventually be shortened to "andor" in the same way as "co-operation" and "to-night"? If so, what's the rough timeline?

Hey hey, who is a social researcher interested in this whole “epistemic injustice” thing who would like an intro to it and related concepts? Are you free next Tuesday at 7pm GMT/2pm EST? If so, sign up to this talk I’m giving and let’s hang out!

#linguistics bluesky: how confident can we be that "and/or" will eventually be shortened to "andor" in the same way as "co-operation" and "to-night"? If so, what's the rough timeline?

Turns out you can blind Ring cameras with a WiFi deauthentication attack. You literally could not make up an easier way to disable them. Plus, with minimal technical knowledge and 5 seconds of googling, the cost to build a basic deauth device is actually closer £1.

After a decade of working with Qualtrics, I still don't know how to describe what I do on the platform. Does one: Develop surveys on Qualtrics? Code surveys on Qualtrics? Write surveys on Qualtrics?

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

We always have Illinois

Just came across a psych paper where 49% of participants recruited through Cloud Research were excluded for failing a comprehension check ☠️☠️☠️☠️

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Certain academics and commentators like to bitch and moan about words changing meaning. But here is genuinely a case where losing the original anti-capital meaning of "Luddite" has stripped people of hermeneutic power to explain their political opposition to AI.

Received a referee report that I am either going to get tattooed on my forehead or put on my gravestone (still deciding): "The authors might want to include this other paper in the discussion - however I think that the authors' own revised manuscript is the better version of that study."

Thanks to undergraduate first order logic, my brain will forever melt when grammatical punctuation is misaligned with a sentence's logical structure

Not to brag, but in a meeting last year, my Bluesky social media presence was described as "... fine."

I've become the thing I hate; written a paper with a nice interdisciplinary-friendly start but with a last section so insider baseball that it has an audience of like 4 people

Polite privacy hygiene reminder: since the Bluesky protocol is open source, it's trivially easy for someone to scrape data like this (either now, or in the future) to help answer common account security questions.

After not seeing our sick emotionally-haunted bachelor neighbor for a few weeks, police and forensics spent a day at his house. We assumed the worst, confirmed by the late night appearance of a specialist cleaning crew. So it's been super fucking weird to start seeing him around the village again.

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I'll never stop reading* National Review as long as they keep publishing banger nonsense like this *pirating