Philosopher at University of Michigan. https://brian.weatherson.org/
Brian Weatherson is the Marshall Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He specializes in epistemology and philosophy of language.
I'll continue this thread when new stuff comes out.
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There's something very dispiriting about music that results from a prompt like "Make a hit song".
But there are lots of uses of AI as an assistant that are more like using synths, drum machines, or Autotune. And then things get more complicated.
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Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
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I would have guessed Grok would be the worst, but it always seems to be ChatGPT that turns up in the lawsuits.
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Get a mortgage for the average house and a couple of +10-15% years gets you to $250K net wealth so it’s not an implausible number for the Australian median.
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1. How much do you want to be talking about prostitutes/affairs/etc with middle schooler?
2. I like espionage history, but a military-history-keen middle schooler might not.
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Critical 4E cognitive science, as we call this emerging research program, adopts the 4E frameworks and concepts but with a critical lens: questioning its hidden assumptions and leveraging its theoretical resources for social criticism.
This was not one of those years.
The first two definitely generalise to weirdly directed anger and rage among 'grown-ups'. Maybe the third should be there too? Just to be sure?
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This is the type of post you make when your goal is to juice engagement from those who want nothing more than to be told their policy goals are const’l commands.
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I could have posted Tigermilk but that would probably get blocked by default Bluesky settings.