Med varje ny flashig press-release från Big Tech om deras senaste nya språkmodell kan man lita på att en viss Chalmerskollega får in en alarmistisk debattartikel i svensk dagspress. Givetvis utan kritisk granskning av Techbolagets förenklingar, katastrofscenarier som bara de

This worries me most about AI in science. It's what happened with the advent of Stata and SPSS. They enabled incredibly rapid advances in the sciences and also set the stage for the replication crisis. Sadly, so many scientists simply don't understand the stats they are using.

From "Momo — oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte," by Michael Ende. The best (childrens) book ever.

I don't think it's a named logical fallacy, but there is a type of thinking that has trouble distinguishing "doesn't literally violate the laws of physics" from "should be achievable in a few years with sufficient gumption."

"A wise general makes sure to insult and humiliate allies before heading into battle" - Sun Tzu

Back in the 1980s-2000s, there was an organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility that worked to oppose irresponsible and dangerous uses of computers in warfare. Maybe it needs a reboot, in our new age of AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute...

“One more real-world aside: Should Europe envy the United States for its tech sector? No. Aside from the fact that Europeans are living well, tech generates a big negative externality, because among other things it generates tech-bro billionaires, who are corrupting our politics.”

Land of the free...

New essay: “Which Future?” michaelnotebook.com/whichfuture/... On how to wisely navigate risks from transformative technology, especially artificial superintelligence (ASI). This condenses much of the key thinking from my more extended essays

This sounds like an excellent idea.

Eliza effect indeed. @frankfukuyama.bsky.social appears to have befriended with his supportive and well mannered ChatGPT.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

“If investors continue to price AI companies as if they will capture the economic value of labor rather than the economic value of tools, valuations will outrun reality.”

A must watch - Mokyr's Nobel Prize speech on how ideas matter for progress, where AI fits here, and where bad institutional decisions might harm things. His ageless energy and unlimited memory for history are exactly today as I remember as his student 15 years ago. www.youtube.com/live/jQCkCcu...

Make it Manuscript Central and we’re on!

This is the best thing I’ve seen since I don’t know when.

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

:-)

Archeologists speak of years Before Present (BP), with ‘present’ set to January 1, 1950—just before nuclear bomb testing significantly changed the atmospheric ratio of carbon isotopes. Given how AI is rapidly flooding the digital world with bullshit, we may need a similar epoch marker—Jan 1 2025?

Some really interesting ideas about kinds of research and modes of governance/funding.

Looking forward to this (joint TIM, ENT, SAP, OMT) PDW with Jennifer Whyte, Raghu Garud, and Dimo Dimov at the Academy of Management meeting in Copenhagen. 📢 The Role of Artifacts in Managerial Design 📢 #AOM2025 Program link: cdmcd.co/bRavzm

“Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.” - Jorge Luis Borges

In 1981 NYT published a piece on the then-new citation index, and how it was being used "unintentionally" for performance evaluations

”I argue that today’s AI excels at recognizing structure, but not at reframing it. It doesn't invent abstractions, ask better questions, or propose new ways of seeing. And that distinction—between fitting the world and reimagining it—is what separates tools of discovery from discovery itself.”

Wow.

Looking forward to this (joint TIM, ENT, SAP, OMT) PDW with Jennifer Whyte, Raghu Garud, and Dimo Dimov at the Academy of Management meeting in Copenhagen. 📢 The Role of Artifacts in Managerial Design 📢 #AOM2025 Program link: cdmcd.co/bRavzm

This is an excellent and very clear piece from Sergey Levine about the strengths and limitations of Large Language models. sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-m...

Almost surely none of this is real. This is multinationals using inflated transfer prices to make profits appear in low-tax Ireland. Trump's EU trade war is stupid on many levels, but the fact that it's based in part on an accounting fiction is the cherry on top

Micro-transitions and work identity: The case of academic entrepreneurs, finally in print at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Cold❄️❄️❄️ “The above-linked news article said that the author of this apparently-fraudulent paper is no longer at MIT. But this shouldn’t be a problem. When authors of fraudulent papers leave MIT, they usually can go to Duke, no? There must be a position in the business school for this guy.”

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Good Friday indeed! Marouane Bousfiha and I just got our paper “𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝐼𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝐸𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑠” accepted for publication in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

This post seems to have struck a chord in some circles, more views in the first couple of days than anything else I've written: open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

📢 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴 — 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 📢 Special Issue: 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘰-𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦, 𝘓𝘰𝘸-𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘐 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 🗓 Deadline: October 1, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 🧵 (1/7)

The rhetoric and action by the DOGE gang remind me of something my late dissertation advisor, Bob Kahn, once said to me about architects of organizational change: "The descent from theory to practice is often painful."

📢 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴 — 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 📢 Special Issue: 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘰-𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦, 𝘓𝘰𝘸-𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘐 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 🗓 Deadline: October 1, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 🧵 (1/7)

Although X engagement with new publications is still strong and of quality, there’s a large body of “reposting” activity that seems largely focussed on a certain body of work: vaccine scepticism, MMR, autism, ivermectin, etc. To literally nobody's surprise. 5/11

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

Here’s the kind of thoughtful discussion of economics research that one can only find on Bluesky these days.

How it started / how it's going.....

I am “citing” without reading. But I will because it looks really interesting.

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

An LLM must have reviewed this.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

This sounds really interesting! I would love to incorporate this system into our university maths classes somehow!

This looks interesting.