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lastpositivist.bsky.social

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Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
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@carlbergstrom.com

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into thi…

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News news.berkeley.edu
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  • A UC Berkeley-led study of 1,222 online participants found that short exposure to ChatGPT weakened persistence once the AI was withdrawn mid-task.
  • Across three randomized experiments on fraction problems and SAT reading, accuracy dropped sharply for the AI-assisted group after help was removed at problem 12.
  • The paper, 'AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance,' was presented at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling.
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@opinionhaver.bsky.social

it's like the America.gov thing: technically impressive, some elements of it are good ideas, you don't have to polarize yourself into thinking it's Bad, Actually, none of this changes the fact that the people doing it are bullshit artists frantically attempting to distract you…

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@stephenkb.bsky.social

This scoop by my colleagues is really alarming, it reflects a troubling shift in how some AI researchers are operating. Ultimately very hard for Aisi do its work in a world of heightened geopolitical tension and competition:

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@jayvanbavel.bsky.social

Using AI helps people get higher grades and get their work done faster, but they learn less & suffer on actual exams I saw this in my own large Intro Psych class: -the exam average is 85% -after AI, it shot up to 95% -after I made the final in person it went to 68% www.economi…

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@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social

❗Job vacancy: Last week to apply for a Teaching Associate in AI and Society/Ethics role here at CFI. Find out more and submit your application by Sunday 19 July: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teachin...

Teaching Associate in AI and Society/Ethics | University of Cambridge cam.ac.uk
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  • Cambridge is recruiting a Teaching Associate in AI and Society/Ethics to support its MSt in AI Ethics and Society, based in the Faculty of Philosophy.
  • The role is 80% FTE on a fixed-term one-year contract paying £35,608 to £46,049 pro rata, with a start date of 1 September 2026.
  • Preferred specialisms include political economy of AI, policy studies, and anthropology or sociology of AI covering gender, race, anticolonial and disability perspectives.
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@amydentata.bsky.social

Men will literally API Error: 400 This organization has been disabled. An organization admin can appeal at console.anthropic.com/appeal instead of going to therapy

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  • For API customers, warnings that precede bans are tied to ongoing thresholds of violative behavior across the whole API account.
  • Banned users can still export data or delete their account, but the accessible data may be restricted depending on the Usage Policy violation.
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A quite genuinely insane and utterly hateful political agenda will continue to advance because our society's actual elite are incredibly attracted to it while posturing as rebels for so doing, and there's a ready supply of idiotic dupes to back them. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/…

Misanthropic Thoughts sootyempiric.blogspot.com
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@yusufimaadkhan.com

"...one would need to think about the actual political economy of AI rather than idealistic dreams about what AI could be in some theoretically possible future." - yup yup Lily Hu's excellent response to Daniel Greco on AI in philosophy. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

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Honestly I think it's a bit of a fools' errand to try and get people to stop anthropomorphising LLMs. I say my computer is angry at me if it beeps too loud.

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At 45k followers I will reveal exactly what terminology correctly carves AI at its joints.

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Training an AI on my workflow for paper reviewing

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"Since you have reason and they do not, treat dumb animals and generally all things and objects with generosity and decency". - Marcus Aurelius weighing in on the anthropomorphising LLMs debate.

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Ok so if you see Death Note as "what if a sexy badboy responded to the late 20th century crime spike by going absolutely insane and becoming god?" what would be the equivalent now? It'd have to be some sort of AI psychosis story right?

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