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Farrell AI as social technology lecture

AI as Social Technology: Astor Lecture by Professor Henry Farrell

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Juan Diego Rodriguez Anubrata Das @ NAACL 2025 Henry Farrell ae

““large language models do for cultural knowledge what market prices do for economic knowledge, and what bureaucracy does for social knowledge — it creates a new realm of plausible simplifications that you can then manipulate” www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE6...”

“AI as social technology - I gave the Astor Lecture at Oxford's Blavatnik School last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE6...”

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Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago

What ai debates have to do with alchemy

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Henry Farrell VE, cybersocial occult investigator ae

“Also John Crowley! www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-ai-de...”

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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I strongly suspect we are going to see a global cultural shift equivalent to the rejection of the "mundus imaginalis" of Renaissance-era mysticism via the Reformation, as religious and cultural ins…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The utilitarians and Rationalists are of course a postmodern Renaissance-era neoplatonist movement equivalent to the cultural ideas Marsilio Ficino or Pico della Mirandola; holding the Image and th…
Henry Farrell: Also John Crowley! www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-ai-de...
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Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago

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Henry Farrell Matthew Sheffield

“I don't know what it says that this sentence makes complete sense to me: "we report a minimum dead salmon artifact from analyzing activations of a fully randomized BERT model in a sentiment analysis task where both correlation analysis and probing find high…”

“Funny you should say that arxiv.org/pdf/2512.18792”

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4 experts · 8 posts · 14d ago
Maria Antoniak David Smith Henry Farrell Hoyt Long
Maria Antoniak: This talk by @himself.bsky.social was wonderful. Models mechanize, map, + remix the "house of intellect", connecting together previously disconnected hallways of knowledge. LLMs are not stochastic …
David Smith: This talk by @himself.bsky.social was wonderful. Models mechanize, map, + remix the "house of intellect", connecting together previously disconnected hallways of knowledge. LLMs are not stochastic …
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