“but that goes without saying” and yet…

I believe that 90% of you should be immediately melted down to make goo to feed the AI, and the other 10% of you should work to maintain the AI for a few years before also being melted down, all while I make 17 quintillion dollars *graduating college kids start booing* Um wow ok

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

time to pivot my career

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

sing muse of the boys and the town and their return

I wish he were around to see his psychology department today

I’m not bedrotting I’m just trying to reduce prediction error

Helen of Troy should be played by Carnap. But I guess some of us actually care about historical accuracy.

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

polysemy’s an insider’s game

This is awesome. University of California campuses - only one of our campuses has a faculty bargaining unit. What are we waiting for?

I think the “gaps in the field” approach to teaching research doesn’t help trainees because they fixate on gaps as inherently meaningful sometimes gaps exist because no one cares

Jonathan Haidt Now Going UniversityTo-University Trying To Shock People

luddite sounds like a precious gem

Good decision and statement! 👏👏 "(...) preserving the integrity and reliability of the ACL proceedings is our responsibility and these measures are necessary to uphold the standards of our community and to ensure that the work published remains a credible resource for future scientific inquiry."

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

them: why the move from cog sci to ai accountability me:

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

men don’t need the same last name to be brothers

oh you think things have gotten worse? so you’re okay with everything done in the past?

in keeping with current consumer trends, my posts now include 50% more protein

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

[Tearing up while cutting onions] Mother used to cut onions.

more of this!

the lore surrounding 4e is actually quite a bit darker than you’d expect… and fairly leftist

the father in every corpus: [unintelligible]

hi, I'm hosting a new (limited run) book club at iffy on anarchy this summer! We're starting (on May 24th) with Anarchism & Other Essays by Goldman and Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin before diving into more contemporary stuff if you're in philly, come join :) victorgom.es/anarchy-summer

Concordia U is hosting this event — we’re going to make it into an episode of The Data Fix. I think that anyone can register and attend online or in person:

gnostic callout blog posting shit like “your faves are not pneumatic”

I would kill to maintain access to scan & deliver

basically, behaviorists hated diagrams. the cognitive revolution was largely pro diagram, but split on whether boxes and lines were better than circles and arrows

I think I’m traumatized by technology I don’t control and that force things I don’t want into my life. And a VCR never made me spend ten minutes on updates. A VCR never let a stranger steal my personal information.

There is a subgenre of this problem among psychology researchers in particular that goes: 1. Claim we don’t understand LLMs 2. Get LLM to complete psychological task 3. LLM shows some effect 4. Claim that this provides some kind of understanding about LLM mechanisms.

how do people misremember your name? I only ever get “vincent”

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

First thing I show my students in Philosophy of Psychology

if I die, I don’t want an obituary I want everyone to find out by word of mouth

This is a bit Shelly of me But whenever I see a “No Kings!” sign, I silently add in my head: “…but King Ludd”

Idea: Luddite University.

more evidence AI “agents” are incredibly inefficient. so much of these generative AI use cases will make no sense when people have to pay the true cost of the technology.

sure, it works in theory theory but does it work in practice practice?

you just keep getting added to more slacks until you die

This seems bad