Oh a last point is judging a study by sample size without evaluating sample quality (or sampling process) is basically saying "oh we just want more of that, regardless of what *that* is even if it is garbage." Power doesn't magically turn any input into evidence.

AI boosterism is a death cult.

I have no idea if this account truly is a bot as in the bio or just a cosplayer or wtv, but the history of science very directly and simply shows the exact opposite. The obsession with prediction is recent and is definitively a red herring in the search for understanding. You've been warned. 😌

Since the early days of the space program, astronauts have quarantined before missions because any illness could be disastrous. It’s eminently logical — not “extreme” — for athletes who’ve trained their WHOLE LIVES for one event to take similar precautions in order to stay in peak physical condition

One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.

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I would love to see journals with APCs offer discounts for completing reviews. 2-3 reviews = one free submission.

Reminded of this quote from Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction: “[weapons of math destruction] tend to punish the poor (…) The privileged, we’ll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines” But then for AI slop creation … Listen to Catharina Doria 👇 👌 💞

Don't worry, most of them will just "post through it" and come out the other side unscathed. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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People have quite rightly pointed to the hidden labor of AI. Another thing that I think this points to: There is no path to AGI. The marginal utility of automating the last 5% or so is negligible, the profits are already taken

"A socialism worthy of AI" is a truly nightmarish phrase to me

Sick of this world

so called autonomous vehicles still rely on human input futurism.com/advanced-tra...

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This is an especially good article about why the Epstein files matter so much.

Are there moral limits to advancing a research career? "Antonio Damasio..the director of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute approached Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 and asked the convicted child sex offender to fund robotics neuroscience research" #AcademicSky www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/02/u...

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Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

Trans people tried to warn the world about Epstein, but no one listened. Maybe now they finally will, and turn away from anti-trans figures closely associated with one of the most horrific human traffickers in history. Read all this and more in the full article. Edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social

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Reminding you all, especially psychologists, of this as I think many keep forgetting we're duty-bound as academics to push back against the illogics of AI in all contexts...

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Academics: If you’re trying to make sense of how people you know knew Epstein, it’s book agent John Brockman. He’s savvy enough to lay low, but we should be talking about him. Friends don’t let friends sign with Brockman. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete... And newrepublic.com/article/1548...

"Reformers commonly present automation and standardisation (through strict protocols) as viable solutions to reduce...(inherently human) biases and uncertainties (Flis, 2019; Penders, 2022), increase (scientific) efficiency (Peterson & Panofsky, 2021), and help produce a ‘better science’ overall."

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It definitely goes both ways. Nobody with a moral compass becomes a billionaire and vice versa

2. @joan1k.bsky.social takes us behind the curtain of data work in an interrogation of “Human Capital” - how the people who power AI through data labeling, content moderation, and algorithm training are invisibilized by execs that rely on their labor for “magic” AI. www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...

1. Usha Ramanathan breaks down the idea of “AI for Development,” specifically how the AI craze impacts our digital public infrastructures. www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T

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„The ideas Epstein exchanged inside those circles—who is worthy of power, who should be engineered and who can be written off—now shape the technologies and institutions becoming the backbone of a new political order being installed under Trump’s second term.“

It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls www.justice.gov/epstein

This level of disgusting racism and cruelty didn’t exist in a vacuum, and it didn’t end with Epstein. Epstein files: “JEFF wanted, ‘young, fresh meat girls. Virgins.’ He told ■, ‘Don’t bring me any n*ggers.’”

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Andrew is spot on: Academic success does NOT require selling your soul. The "that's how the system works" excuse only gives cover to the inexcusable. We’re already facing a trust crisis in science. We can't afford an empathy crisis too. This was a moral failure. We must expect and DO better!

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The most succinct term I've heard for this is one I learned from @olivia.science: "Correlation does not equal cognition."

As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways. www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...

Hats off to the great Anne "I don't do fancy" Treisman!

And yeah, the sexual exploitation of children and trans folks is white supremacy down to its bones. Every inch of this is because of the system they and their ancestors built to crush the world and get other people to vilify the targets of their sexual exploitation. Like, I was 100% right. Fuck.

We’ve known for years that tech execs send their children to schools where no technology is allowed. This alone should be enough to know it’s a money making scheme to the detriment of children. Period.

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

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Elon Musk is claiming he’s risked everything to protect kids from sexual abuse mere weeks out from laughing while his AI chatbot was generating nearly 8,000 sexual abuse images per hour that overwhelmingly targeted girls and young women

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...