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Daniel Lowd

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CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
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@dame.is

I’m reading the Pope’s 83-page manifesto on AI. Notes/quotes 🧵 “Technology should not be considered, in itself, as a force antagonistic to humanity. On the contrary, it has formed part of our history since the beginning as ‘a profoundly human reality, linked to the autonomy & …

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social

Interesting study. There is, as everyone expected, a flood of AI books. And it is crowding out human authors: "No-AI books, on their own, earn less per book than they did in 2023 in 7 of 8 genres. The one genre where human authors are doing better (+35%) is Fantasy/horror" arx…

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who wrote this code? it's Opus. it's literally 4.8. it's Fable delegating to Sonnet. it's GPT 5.6-terra on xhigh. terra is basically 5.5 luna on max. it's GLM. dude it's a Qwen distill. it's Larch. run Larch. log onto Larch. dive into Larch. Larch has tokens for you. Larch has tokens for you.

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Me doing ML research in 2026 by passing notes between Codex and Claude Code. *switch to Codex's iTerm2 tab* › Thanks! Some notes from Claude: [...] (...wait...) *switch to Claude's iTerm 2 tab* › Thanks! Here's Codex's response: [...]

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(Meeting a new couple) “So, which of you is the GPT and which of you is the Claude?”

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I saw “AI fail” on the grocery list, but it turns out we’re just out of aluminum foil and I have bad handwriting.

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Wow, the new ChatGPT desktop app sucks so much more than I realized at first. Web UI is ok. CLI is ok. Desktop app? May as well be BonziBuddy.

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Stop replacing HUMANS with AI!! For example, if you can't code and you're tempted to ask AI, you could instead ask a HUMAN software engineer for help. And then that HUMAN software engineer will ask AI to write the code. See how much better that is? Yay for HUMANS!

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