Olivia Guest

Cognitive scientist working on AI critique

👁️ https://olivia.science 🍃 https://metatheory.space associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει

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If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:

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Sometimes seeing people I liked, studied with, became friends with at conferences over the past 15 years become AI boosters actually hurts my feelings. Other times it was fully predictable because they only did degrees to work for Google or IBM back in the day or to start a weird little start-up.

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we have to take a step back and ask: who prefers to talk round & round in circles instead of positive change in the world? to go to battle over words instead of deeper ideas & even more importantly actually fighting AI? the answers are who are the (accidental maybe) sell outs and the crypto fash

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Has anybody else noticed that with the yankification of UK politics for example we also have yankification of the mainstream internet and of academia? Everything through AI has been streamlined into nonsense of the average USA chud, lowest bar — not typical stiff upper lip or whatever else. 1/

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