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Elad Alyagon
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Historian of Medieval China
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ChatGPT stopped hallucinating and started procrastinating instead. It just tells me it's working on answers, goes back to sleep. I wake it up. It apologizes. Goes back to sleep. It's like a teenager, just much more polite.
July 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ealyagon.bsky.social
They say the first cookie was the size of a room, and the smaller ones, also known as "Personal Cookies," only appeared after WW2.
May 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
ealyagon.bsky.social
Asked ChatGPT a question and got an answer based on Wikipedia, which means AI has now reached the level of a college student.
March 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Elad Alyagon, "Inked: Tattooed Soldiers and the Song Empire’s Penal-Military Complex," (Harvard University Asia Center, 2023) by The New East Asian Studies Podcasts in the Age of AI
Inked is a social history of common soldiers of the Song Dynasty, most of whom would have been recognized by their tattooed bodies. Overlooked in the historical record, tattoos were an indelible aspec...
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January 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I just read this great book by @ealyagon.bsky.social depicting the Song as a domain of violence, inequality, oppression, and resistance (as regimes are) not populated only by scholar officials. #amreading #booksky #historybooks #chinesehistory #songdynasty

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Inked — Harvard University Press
Inked is a social history of common soldiers of the Song Dynasty, most of whom would have been recognized by their tattooed bodies. Overlooked in the historical record, tattoos were an indelible aspec...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 16, 2024 at 7:41 PM