Aurora
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I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
maggieappleton.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I've been trying to articulate why the fawning, complimentary responses from AI chatbots feel so insidious to me. I've finally figured out how to explain it.
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
Wrote a long piece on how current model training and design choices threaten our critical thinking skills: maggieappleton.com/ai-enlighten...
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When the next startup dude tells you he's "disrupting" an industry, translate it correctly: "I've found a way to skim money from people who actually create value, and I'm hoping you'll call me a visionary instead of an execrable leech."
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-great-te...
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-great-te...
The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft
I've lost count of how many times I've been cornered at conferences by men in meticulously over-casual $300 t-shirts, evangelizing their startups with religious fervor. "We're DISRUPTING the entire in...
www.joanwestenberg.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
When the next startup dude tells you he's "disrupting" an industry, translate it correctly: "I've found a way to skim money from people who actually create value, and I'm hoping you'll call me a visionary instead of an execrable leech."
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-great-te...
www.joanwestenberg.com/the-great-te...
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My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
January 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
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Me preguntaron sobre las propuestas de Pedro Sánchez en Davos y esta es mi opinión: comparto el diagnóstico, disiento mucho en sus conclusiones. Con ayuda de Audre Lorde elpais.com/opinion/2025...
Una solución para la deriva autoritaria de las redes sociales
Es necesario apoyar una infraestructura pública, comunitaria y abierta antes de que la oligarquía tecnológica avance en sus mecanismos de control
elpais.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Me preguntaron sobre las propuestas de Pedro Sánchez en Davos y esta es mi opinión: comparto el diagnóstico, disiento mucho en sus conclusiones. Con ayuda de Audre Lorde elpais.com/opinion/2025...
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Uno de los múltiples melones que hay que abrir es que las redes sociales privadas, y en especial Twitter, funcionan como altavoz de servicios y cargos públicos. Es lo que más urge cambiar y lo que va a crear más resistencias para abandonarlas.
Bueno, y nuestro Gobierno y las instituciones que deberían velar por el orden democrático y nuestro bienestar piensan pronunciarse sobre el tema de que las redes donde realizan su comunicación estén en manos de nazis intentando considerar lo LGTBIQ+ una enfermedad de nuevo, o...?
January 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Uno de los múltiples melones que hay que abrir es que las redes sociales privadas, y en especial Twitter, funcionan como altavoz de servicios y cargos públicos. Es lo que más urge cambiar y lo que va a crear más resistencias para abandonarlas.