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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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what drives me nuts about people using chatGPT for math in particular is that wolframalpha has existed for a fucking decade and a half and people act like it never existed
this is why you cannot actually trust an LLM to do math (which MANY people are not aware of):
I keep telling people how it gets "1+1=2" correct only because that's most common sequence of those strings together, but if Reddit or 4chan or whoever started spamming search indexes with "1+1=3," we'd start seeing that as a "correct" answer from genAI.
August 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
what drives me nuts about people using chatGPT for math in particular is that wolframalpha has existed for a fucking decade and a half and people act like it never existed
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We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
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In short, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
📉 Social media use is shrinking
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
In short, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
📉 Social media use is shrinking
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
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“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
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“Today, we’re very similar to each other. Even the most different people are at most maybe 200,000 years separated, with little gene flow,” Reich said. “But 70,000 years ago, there were at least five groups far more different from each other than any groups living today.”
“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
“Today, we’re very similar to each other. Even the most different people are at most maybe 200,000 years separated, with little gene flow,” Reich said. “But 70,000 years ago, there were at least five groups far more different from each other than any groups living today.”
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In ShopTalk, @chriscoyier.net and @davatron5000.bsky.social tron5000.bsky.social talked about my recent post about RSS, and the curation challenge posed by RSS when you mix together high-volume feeds like The Verge with more infrequent posters (solo bloggers, etc).
677: Background Code Agents, Append AI, and RSS Starter Packs
What helps you remember a person’s name, thinking about background coding agents, is AI for append only mode, what are MCPs and how should I think about them, what has been working for more t…
shoptalkshow.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In ShopTalk, @chriscoyier.net and @davatron5000.bsky.social tron5000.bsky.social talked about my recent post about RSS, and the curation challenge posed by RSS when you mix together high-volume feeds like The Verge with more infrequent posters (solo bloggers, etc).
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
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📣 RE-UP! SHARE!
*Do not stop talking about this*
60 Minutes Australia has been far ahead of U.S. broadcast media in featuring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell — a year ago!
📺 youtu.be/VQOOxOl9l80?...
#LetSurvivorsTestify
🚨 📺 60 Minutes Australia Epstein Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
*Do not stop talking about this*
60 Minutes Australia has been far ahead of U.S. broadcast media in featuring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell — a year ago!
📺 youtu.be/VQOOxOl9l80?...
#LetSurvivorsTestify
🚨 📺 60 Minutes Australia Epstein Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes Australia
YouTube video by 60 Minutes Australia
youtu.be
August 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
📣 RE-UP! SHARE!
*Do not stop talking about this*
60 Minutes Australia has been far ahead of U.S. broadcast media in featuring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell — a year ago!
📺 youtu.be/VQOOxOl9l80?...
#LetSurvivorsTestify
🚨 📺 60 Minutes Australia Epstein Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
*Do not stop talking about this*
60 Minutes Australia has been far ahead of U.S. broadcast media in featuring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell — a year ago!
📺 youtu.be/VQOOxOl9l80?...
#LetSurvivorsTestify
🚨 📺 60 Minutes Australia Epstein Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Solar for All program is a multi-billion dollar federal investment to help lower electricity costs & cut US energy poverty. The Trump Administration ended it. @carleysanya.bsky.social & I talked with @juliaradio.bsky.social & @jeffbradynews.bsky.social about it: www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n... 🔌 💡
EPA plans to end a program that makes solar power available to low-income Americans
The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.
www.npr.org
August 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Solar for All program is a multi-billion dollar federal investment to help lower electricity costs & cut US energy poverty. The Trump Administration ended it. @carleysanya.bsky.social & I talked with @juliaradio.bsky.social & @jeffbradynews.bsky.social about it: www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n... 🔌 💡
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R/betteroffline is in the top 25 podcast communities on Reddit, this is wild
www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffl...
www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffl...
August 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
R/betteroffline is in the top 25 podcast communities on Reddit, this is wild
www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffl...
www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffl...
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My latest newsletter is about how big tech and big business has guaranteed that the next generation to enter the workforce will be poorer, less secure, and lonelier.
And why every generation that follows will be a lost generation.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-silico...
And why every generation that follows will be a lost generation.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-silico...
How Silicon Valley and Big Business Created The Next Lost Generation
The kids aren't alright.
whatwelost.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My latest newsletter is about how big tech and big business has guaranteed that the next generation to enter the workforce will be poorer, less secure, and lonelier.
And why every generation that follows will be a lost generation.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-silico...
And why every generation that follows will be a lost generation.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-silico...
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So you're going to "teach AI" this year. That's great!
Start with "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics"
nautil.us/how-eugenics...
#mtbos #ITeachMath #AIinEd
Start with "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics"
nautil.us/how-eugenics...
#mtbos #ITeachMath #AIinEd
How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.
nautil.us
August 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So you're going to "teach AI" this year. That's great!
Start with "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics"
nautil.us/how-eugenics...
#mtbos #ITeachMath #AIinEd
Start with "How Eugenics Shaped Statistics"
nautil.us/how-eugenics...
#mtbos #ITeachMath #AIinEd
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
@yasminejibril.bsky.social That scam was attempted on me some months ago and two moots fell for it. An already hacked moot/oomf saying he mass reported your account and redirecting me to a shady Discord account. I guess you lost some money too.
bsky.app/profile/yasm...
bsky.app/profile/yasm...
July 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
@yasminejibril.bsky.social That scam was attempted on me some months ago and two moots fell for it. An already hacked moot/oomf saying he mass reported your account and redirecting me to a shady Discord account. I guess you lost some money too.
bsky.app/profile/yasm...
bsky.app/profile/yasm...
Well, with the PSG winning the Champions League, and Luis Enrique winning his second treble, I am learning that one of the assistant coaches of Luis Enrique, Rafel Pol uses Systems Thinking in his training methodology. #SystemsTeaching
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafe...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafe...
June 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Well, with the PSG winning the Champions League, and Luis Enrique winning his second treble, I am learning that one of the assistant coaches of Luis Enrique, Rafel Pol uses Systems Thinking in his training methodology. #SystemsTeaching
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafe...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafe...
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I am surrounded by young people with solutions to every problem. We have no time for doomerism.
It's nice to have those that talk truth to power but resistence is building an army of mums and dads and media and young men and women who will not accept anything less than a future inhabitable planet.
It's nice to have those that talk truth to power but resistence is building an army of mums and dads and media and young men and women who will not accept anything less than a future inhabitable planet.
April 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I am surrounded by young people with solutions to every problem. We have no time for doomerism.
It's nice to have those that talk truth to power but resistence is building an army of mums and dads and media and young men and women who will not accept anything less than a future inhabitable planet.
It's nice to have those that talk truth to power but resistence is building an army of mums and dads and media and young men and women who will not accept anything less than a future inhabitable planet.
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I think Nafeez Ahmed is fundamentally correct (more correct than Fressoz). And at the same time, unchecked exponential growth in AI adoption and data center expansion will make the hill a lot steeper to climb, which will have the effect of delaying the end stages of the complete transition.
This is a fantastic, long and strongly-evidenced rebuttal of the "no energy transition" meme popularised wrongly by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
The Delusion of “No Energy Transition”: And How Renewables Can End Endless Energy Extraction
In popular book More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz says the ‘energy transition’ is a myth as we consume more fossil fuels than ever. In doing so, he masks real, rapid energy transitions, pa...
ageoftransformation.org
April 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I think Nafeez Ahmed is fundamentally correct (more correct than Fressoz). And at the same time, unchecked exponential growth in AI adoption and data center expansion will make the hill a lot steeper to climb, which will have the effect of delaying the end stages of the complete transition.
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This is a fantastic, long and strongly-evidenced rebuttal of the "no energy transition" meme popularised wrongly by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
The Delusion of “No Energy Transition”: And How Renewables Can End Endless Energy Extraction
In popular book More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz says the ‘energy transition’ is a myth as we consume more fossil fuels than ever. In doing so, he masks real, rapid energy transitions, pa...
ageoftransformation.org
April 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is a fantastic, long and strongly-evidenced rebuttal of the "no energy transition" meme popularised wrongly by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
I am probably one notch less optimistic on renewables than Nafeez but entirely agree w/ the overall thesis: fuel elimination exists, and it can exist everywhere
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Coral reefs around the world have been subjected to unprecedented heat stress since early 2023. A new report finds heat-related coral bleaching has damaged corals in more than 80 countries, making it the most extensive bleaching event ever recorded, with no clear end in sight.
Ongoing global coral bleaching event affects 84% of world’s reefs
Coral reefs around the world have been subjected to unprecedented heat stress since early 2023. A new report finds heat-related coral bleaching has damaged corals in more than 80 countries, making it…
news.mongabay.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Coral reefs around the world have been subjected to unprecedented heat stress since early 2023. A new report finds heat-related coral bleaching has damaged corals in more than 80 countries, making it the most extensive bleaching event ever recorded, with no clear end in sight.
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Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
www.politico.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
Looks interesting, gonna order it soon
Hugely proud of @scientistsx.bsky.social on the launch of their new book #ScientistsOnSurvival Personal Stories of Climate Action.
This is a deeply moving and inspiring book that everyone needs to read -every chapter left me in tears or with goosebumps. Read more: www.scientistsforxr.earth/our-book
This is a deeply moving and inspiring book that everyone needs to read -every chapter left me in tears or with goosebumps. Read more: www.scientistsforxr.earth/our-book
April 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Looks interesting, gonna order it soon
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Climate impacts means lower yields and less land for food in the future, but what can we do? How do we provide healthy food using fewer inputs, less land, less capital etc?
I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...
I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...
Professor Paul Behrens: plenary talk, 2025 LEAP conference
YouTube video by LEAP
www.youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Climate impacts means lower yields and less land for food in the future, but what can we do? How do we provide healthy food using fewer inputs, less land, less capital etc?
I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...
I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...
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Was passiert, wenn man in einer Großstadt konsequent an der Verbesserung der Luftqualität arbeitet - indem man etwa Autos verdrängt - sieht man an Paris. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
April 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Was passiert, wenn man in einer Großstadt konsequent an der Verbesserung der Luftqualität arbeitet - indem man etwa Autos verdrängt - sieht man an Paris. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...