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Multiple readings Opposing the inevitability of ai at universities is possible and necessary Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions
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Opposing the inevitability of ai at universities is possible and necessary

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“It’s not the first time that universities have gotten tangled up with developments that would later come to haunt them, explains @olivia.science … ‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial pr…” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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Iris van Rooij: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Luke Stark: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Iris van Rooij: See also bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“the paper on reverse engineering I linked to has many references on this / what happens if you grant formal realism / naive computationalism / makeism see, e.g. doi.org/10.1007/s421... doi.org/10.1007/s110... doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“the paper on reverse engineering I linked to has many references on this / what happens if you grant formal realism / naive computationalism / makeism see, e.g. doi.org/10.1007/s421... doi.org/10.1007/s110... doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...”

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“Inspired by @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social on "curating reading lists for others", here's a thread with some of mine for when people want to collaborate: 1) How do we build theory? 2) What does computationalism imply? 3) How do we use models? 4) What happens w…” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“Inspired by @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social on "curating reading lists for others", here's a thread with some of mine for when people want to collaborate: 1) How do we build theory? 2) What does computationalism imply? 3) How do we use models? 4) What happens w…”

“And even more info here metatheory.space”

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Iris van Rooij VE, cybersocial occult investigator Anthony Moser
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“Also test driven development is a great example of how most of the problems with LLMs predate them. Humans are perfectly capable of building elaborate processes that do not meaningfully address the…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Anthony Moser: This is unsurprising because ai generated code *is* ai generated text. Code is text. People think code is different because you can test to see if it runs. But that just tells you if it runs (or pa…
Anthony Moser: Whether the program makes sense is about the relationship of the program to the larger world, the human processes in which it is embedded It is, by definition, external to the program. That's what …
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