partner sees picture of colugo for the first time: that is a demonic flying book

Did you know that computer-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery (i.e., deepfake porn) is now a federal crime, with jail time? Research @princetoncitp.bsky.social is investigating the efficacy of regulatory measures like the Take It Down Act (S. 146) against AI-enabled sexual violence.

Something about LLM hype culture renders a man immune to the experience of embarrassment. If I couldn’t tell the difference between PhD-level scholarship and grammatical gibberish I simply would not announce that to a global audience.

I am a pro-AI guy who often gets pigeonholed as an anti-AI guy. I am pro developing and using AI for things AI is good at. I am anti developing and using AI for things that will bring on another AI winter, a mild economic collapse, and make us all look like schmucks in ~5 years.

Of all the things that didn’t happen, this AI-agent afflicted present day dystopian future didn’t happen the most

first week in Philadelphia: I am going to die driving in Philadelphia six months in Philadelphia: I was born to drive in Philadelphia. driving in any other city would be a waste of my talents.

... a lot of philosophers of mind do that intuiting with neuroscience research... 😬

Within philosophy of mind and cognitive science, ​functionalism is the doctrine that mental states are individuated by their causal role, while computationalism is the doctrine that cognition/mentation consists in symbol manipulation. These accounts have implications for what sorts of systems we can

In addition for every other valid reason not to get ChatGPT to do your journal peer reviews for you I heard today the argument that once you load an article into the programme it will become part of the training data set and you are thereby complicit in violating the author’s copyright.

I do not know the joys of parenthood but I do know the joys of seeing an idea that is uniquely ones own brainchild having policy impact and that has to be at least as good I assume.

Disgusting. Princeton University so obsessed with school spirit they put orange stripes in sky above campus.

my crew vs the gov't

BREAKING: Trump administration vows to put stop to sexual deviancy and trans agenda in organic macromolecules.

my cats are useless. my cats are not mousers. they have never managed to kill anything. their most successful hunting feat to date involved drooling on a sleepy bug. today they happened upon a nest of baby mice.

It intrigues me that “philistine,” (n. uncouth or uncultured), means this in virtue of the ancient association between the Palestinian people and indigeneity. The term was first used by the Israelites to refer to the non-semitic locals (Philistina).

Every time I hear some genius bragging about how fast they are learning to code/write/make art by using AI instead of their own brain, I think of Jenko in 21 Jump Street on the drug that makes him think he’s figured out all of chemistry but the whiteboard is just a whole bunch of 4s

Incredible that they published it. It’s entirely credible and aligns with what actual linguists, neuroscientists, psychologists, computer scientists, etc. have been saying all along.

using chatbots in debugging but only for the placebo effect to make me feel like I’m outsourcing labor and force me to read my own code and realize I’ve double-initialized something:

I've got to give Anthropic credit for willing to publish this specific study, yet they're also posting unhinged bullshit like "we don't really know if LLMs have feelings".

They did the meme!

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Important update. Google’s YouTube has not only erased thousands of videos of human rights violations in Palestine, it has now blocked livestreaming from Al Jazeera within the country. If you have not already divested from the platform, now is the time to do so.

Now, I am become drivel, the nonsenser of words

well this seems fine and normal

God, I wish I never became the victor. Now I have all this fucking history to write.

I was put on this earth to be the progenitor of senseless drivel. Look what you have done, you bastards! Now I am forced to rail against the senseless drivel, as entire civilizations throw themselves against the rocks of senseless drivel machines.

...if only there were a way to integrate a scholar’s top productivity software with the choking to death on the linguistic vomit of the internet software... hang on! I’ve got just the thing!

If you, as a scientist, cannot be bothered to engage in the intellectual work of science, please quit your job and leave it to someone with skill and integrity.

If you happen to live in America at this historical juncture, the bad news is that you are in danger. The good news is that there are people in your city, in your neighborhood, on your block getting organized to protect each other against that danger. Find them.

The "ban whistles" stuff is how you know whistles are working incredibly well

My "I don't! believe in Phrenology" tee shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my tee shirt.

I confess that I still struggle to believe that there are people out there who cannot tell the difference between genuine photographs and AI-generated images.

Good for them, I guess, but what is da tat centers? @theguardian.com

​Chatbots have been an incredible loss for scientists and an incredible win for the people who send scientists 5,000 word emails about anti-gravity engines and CIA microchips.

I often hear, in my line of work, that large language models have surpassed the capabilities of “mere stochastic parrots.” Yet few are willing to attribute to them anything like “understanding.” What, in your view, is the best recent appraisal of the limitations of LLMs?

attn fellow faculty: when students hand in AI-generated papers, any of you try eating them?

All of the above:

Mexico, 2025: I’ll never be able to justify buying this many Aztec death whistles : ( 2026, ICE agents invading major US cities: I have just the thing for this scenario!

As a jewish person who has lived in Germany off and on: the last two years have taught me, without a sliver of doubt, that the German people are and forever will be unrepentant regarding the matter of genocide.

So depressing when the discourse of science as pure, separable from, and not related to, real world actions is being perpetuate by those with the power to change this... www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Anyways, feel free to recommend tenure-track or permanent posts in being a big tough guy to me.

The academic world can be so cruel for a soft, soft, soul! If only there was a job in...

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

ICE agents are now killing Americans with impunity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJ...

Gemini politely informs me that it cannot discuss “kitty litter” which I have google searched because it is programmed to be “harmless” and to avoid “unsanitary” topics.

You can preprompt a chatbot into sycophancy or you can preprompt a chatbot into being snide and adversarial but you can’t preprompt a chatbot into feigning genuine understanding.

Yann LeCun has long proclaimed LLMs to be a dead-end research strategy, at least if we are after a technology that can successfully mimic intelligent behavior. Looks like he is finally putting his money where his mouth is and fleeing the sinking ship.

My talk on the limitations of algorithmic fairness is now online! youtu.be/YjZ4s3nqxbs?...

The progenitor of Go and UTF-8 would like a word: