Adam
@adam-r21.bsky.social
Pigeon appreciator. Lapsed scientist turned Sheffield medical student. Sometimes they let me teach anatomy (they probably shouldn't)
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AI-slop boostering is also normalizing diminishing humanity:
"If everything that makes us irreducible to algorithms, everything that is too complex to turn into numbers on spreadsheets, is dismissed and ignored—humanity will be over."
More in my, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, excerpted here:
"If everything that makes us irreducible to algorithms, everything that is too complex to turn into numbers on spreadsheets, is dismissed and ignored—humanity will be over."
More in my, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, excerpted here:
We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI
Machines It’s 2019. I’m in a bar in Providence, Rhode Island, chatting with graduate students and researchers with PhDs. One of them, who holds a PhD in Latin American literature, observed approvin…
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June 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
AI-slop boostering is also normalizing diminishing humanity:
"If everything that makes us irreducible to algorithms, everything that is too complex to turn into numbers on spreadsheets, is dismissed and ignored—humanity will be over."
More in my, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, excerpted here:
"If everything that makes us irreducible to algorithms, everything that is too complex to turn into numbers on spreadsheets, is dismissed and ignored—humanity will be over."
More in my, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, excerpted here:
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Next up for #HistoricalHearts on #ValentinesDay
A 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest-known animal to ever exist. It was so big, it had to be doused in 1,000+ gallons of formaldehyde before being plastinated by a team at Royal Ontario Museum. More: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/pains...
A 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest-known animal to ever exist. It was so big, it had to be doused in 1,000+ gallons of formaldehyde before being plastinated by a team at Royal Ontario Museum. More: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/pains...
February 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Next up for #HistoricalHearts on #ValentinesDay
A 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest-known animal to ever exist. It was so big, it had to be doused in 1,000+ gallons of formaldehyde before being plastinated by a team at Royal Ontario Museum. More: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/pains...
A 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest-known animal to ever exist. It was so big, it had to be doused in 1,000+ gallons of formaldehyde before being plastinated by a team at Royal Ontario Museum. More: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/pains...