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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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@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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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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"...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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No particular hate to this person cos I think I see this a lot - as much as this place has genuine cultural problems, sometimes I do think people just hallucinate a BlueSky Consensus which is sort of just what one imagines the most annoying clueless lib would think.

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My support for the resist wine mums as democracy's strongest soldiers and my hatred of cutesy AI imaginings of iconic characters uttering banal vaguely leftwing populist truisms are in conflict with one another.

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