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AI skill degradation early results study
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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Is AI profitable analysis essay
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Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/”
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”
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5d ago
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“"'The fact that this policy exists at all is due to the enormous work of parents across the city who spoke out against the overreach of A.I. into their kids’ classroom,” @kellyclancy.bsky.social said."”
“Meanwhile in New York www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...”
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15d ago
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13 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Obviously, it's the business school. Can I return to my theme of "AI bullshit reveals that everything was bullshit all along"?”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“What are we even doing here? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...”
university institutes AI classroom ban
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“I use AI more or less 24/7 but also teach intro courses device-free and would have no prob with a flexible policy like this. (It leaves room for assignments that explicitly invite AI use, of which I do have one even at intro level.) +”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“"Under the new guidelines, students will primarily read texts on paper and engage with them via device-free guided discussions" chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...”
HuggingFace security incident July 2026
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"When we started analysis, we used commercial APIs. This did not work: requests were blocked by the providers' safety guardrails. We ran the forensic analysis instead on our own infra: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our en…”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“These programs are made from humanity's collective efforts. It's vital that their code and weights be available to all human beings, not just so that progress can be iterated faster, but also so that bad actors can be stopped faster as well. Great example h…”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“Question for Twitter hivemind: Attached is a sentence from the Hugging Face initial report on hacking incident (https://t.co/PuIHBdLCXK). Can anyone explain to me what "executing many thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes" …”
mathematics age of AI
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Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Paper from the essay. Also slides teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid... arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753”
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“trivially easy to verify one proof; how about a few 100? now do the pipeline for getting those from verified to part of the discipline of mathematics, that's the bit we need to work on (in every sphere, not just maths)”
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4d ago
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AI detection tools accuracy review
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“For anyone interested in a less juicy (zero burps) but more evidence-based assessment of Pangram's workings and accuracy, I highly recommend this @nature.com piece by @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social & @richvn.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
“AI detectors now claim 99% accuracy. However, we still are struggling with AI norms, what degree of AI assistance is OK, or is it ever OK? We still haven't settled what degree should be deemed acceptable (a hard line 0%, <50%, higher?) and in what context (…”
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13d ago
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“this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...”
“From the Onion, though it's the most realistic AI headline I've seen in a while . . . theonion.com/guy-who-suck...”
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“Anthropic is all-in on bio Using Claude to design protein binders (early step in drug development) doubles the success rate over a human baseline blog: www.anthropic.com/research/Cla... tech report: www-cdn.anthropic.com/30bf50e22a01...”
“We're also publishing a technical report: https://t.co/Ltcqemzn5Z And open-sourcing our prompts and data here: https://t.co/OZXVQWSie2”
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“Very cool. Free API (NC). deepmind.google/blog/alphage...”
“Blog post: https://t.co/H5yJGgLsWo https://t.co/izxBob2PGw https://t.co/F9lJ8GPrTQ”
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4d ago
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“🧪 We are staring down a crisis with peer-review. Editors needed 4.5 invitations to secure a single peer reviewer in 2025, double the effort required back in 2018. Meanwhile, we have half of surveyed scientists admit to using AI to draft their reviews. This …”
“Enjoyed being interviewed by @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social @science.org on AI for scientific novelty assessment—a problem that is still unsolved by SOTA LLMs in my experience. Stay tuned for more on this! www.science.org/content/arti...”
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19d ago
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3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Some hard-hitting plots in this article www.economist.com/graphic-deta...”
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6d ago
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AI homogenizes human thinking Nature essay
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“I use AI frequently but my god I'd do anything to read English instead of Claudish for a single day across my emails, assignments, socials, Substackistan, academic literature, product announcements, etc. www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
“Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same? "Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition." www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
Atlantic society of cheats essay
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... "This is how communities tend to respond to crime waves: They beef up law enforcement. Surveillance widens, punishments stiffen, and legal codes expand to police behavior that was formerly restrained by customary norms of…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
““Squeaky-clean grammar, a superabundance of bullet points, and fairly robotic reiteration of facts rather than the pleasing lurch of original thinking”: “This is the horrid house style of AI-generated papers” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...”
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12d ago
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“NVIDIA buying Hugging Face for ~$13B techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/n...”
“Interesting… techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/n...”
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5d ago
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“Fable 5.1's prompting guide tells you how to at least partly disable Claudish by removing mannered prose platform.claude.com/docs/en/buil...”
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“America's Next Top Model card. Long section on Fable/Mythos 5.1 about bio, human uplift, AAV, CB, RNA seq... Need some time with this one www-cdn.anthropic.com/0339e6a7c5c7...”
