Ben🍎
@benlovesapples.bsky.social
Big fan of overthinking things, pacifism, and apples.
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This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
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@science.org just dropped a story covering this preprint! Check it out below, and thanks to @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for the great write-up! www.science.org/content/arti...
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
@science.org just dropped a story covering this preprint! Check it out below, and thanks to @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for the great write-up! www.science.org/content/arti...
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I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...
List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants
I believe that with the advent of modern online collaboration platforms (such as Github), proof assistant languages (such as Lean), and (potentially) AI tools, there are many emerging opportunities...
mathoverflow.net
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...
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The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
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When I was kid, I really disliked tartar sauce. But now I kind of like it. Just goes to show you that at some point they improved tartar sauce.
August 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
When I was kid, I really disliked tartar sauce. But now I kind of like it. Just goes to show you that at some point they improved tartar sauce.
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BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
July 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
It’s not “Aristotle’s Paradox” it’s “that thing Aristotle was confused about”
July 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It’s not “Aristotle’s Paradox” it’s “that thing Aristotle was confused about”
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The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
www.wired.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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I really hope complex life has formed elsewhere in the universe and that it worked out better than it has on earth
July 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I really hope complex life has formed elsewhere in the universe and that it worked out better than it has on earth
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1896: Oh no the train is coming right out of the screen!
2025: The train is capable of self-reflection and I do therapy with the train.
2025: The train is capable of self-reflection and I do therapy with the train.
July 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
1896: Oh no the train is coming right out of the screen!
2025: The train is capable of self-reflection and I do therapy with the train.
2025: The train is capable of self-reflection and I do therapy with the train.
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All 197 United Nations member countries were expected to submit their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), detailing their plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by February this year. However, only 25 countries, representing ~20% of global emissions, have done so.
Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change
Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.
theconversation.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
All 197 United Nations member countries were expected to submit their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), detailing their plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by February this year. However, only 25 countries, representing ~20% of global emissions, have done so.
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OpenAI has just announced that their experimental model achieved IMO gold, solving P1-5. Solutions here: github.com/aw31/openai-...
GitHub - aw31/openai-imo-2025-proofs
Contribute to aw31/openai-imo-2025-proofs development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
OpenAI has just announced that their experimental model achieved IMO gold, solving P1-5. Solutions here: github.com/aw31/openai-...
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I actually count 6(!) LLM-generated nonsense papers on the Hodge conjecture posted to arXiv since June 15, of 8 total papers that mention it in the title or abstract.
July 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I actually count 6(!) LLM-generated nonsense papers on the Hodge conjecture posted to arXiv since June 15, of 8 total papers that mention it in the title or abstract.
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The former CEO of Liberty Energy said that? Wow, really makes you think.
July 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The former CEO of Liberty Energy said that? Wow, really makes you think.
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
Another moment of appreciation for the ✨ block button ✨
June 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Another moment of appreciation for the ✨ block button ✨
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One hundred percent. Economic precarity breeds transactional education, which incentivizes grades over learning, which creates demand for cheating, for which AI provides an abundant supply.
This is shared in reflection of prior comments on Bluesky that many academics comment that a degree provides a student with the opportunity to "stretch" their learning, and the "struggle" of writing is part of the learning experience - yet if students are grade/degree hungry, is this relevant?
June 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
One hundred percent. Economic precarity breeds transactional education, which incentivizes grades over learning, which creates demand for cheating, for which AI provides an abundant supply.
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youth mobility and independence is what got me involved in this space and it is what continues to motivate me. shocking to see how we've completely designed out our children from our world.
June 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
youth mobility and independence is what got me involved in this space and it is what continues to motivate me. shocking to see how we've completely designed out our children from our world.
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a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
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New journal INTERLACE devoted to mathematics & fiber arts: interlace-journal.org 🧮 #mathart
Interlace home page
Interlace: A Journal of Mathematics and Fiber Arts
interlace-journal.org
June 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
New journal INTERLACE devoted to mathematics & fiber arts: interlace-journal.org 🧮 #mathart
Moment of appreciation for the unfollow button. Always right there when I need you.
June 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Moment of appreciation for the unfollow button. Always right there when I need you.