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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
I too decided to cancel my Spotify Duo subscription, and probably other apps will follow. I'm old enough to know the almost negligible impact this will have, but I'm so fucking tired of the enshittification of these services that it's either this or end my subscription with the entire human race
2022: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek puts $100M into Helsing, a military AI firm.
2025: He’s now chairman of the board.
Spotify is still invested in war.
inthesetimes.com/article/spot...
2025: He’s now chairman of the board.
Spotify is still invested in war.
inthesetimes.com/article/spot...
How Spotify Is Quietly Supporting the Military-Industrial Complex
Unbeknownst to most users, Spotify has a secret endeavor—backing the efforts of war.
inthesetimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I too decided to cancel my Spotify Duo subscription, and probably other apps will follow. I'm old enough to know the almost negligible impact this will have, but I'm so fucking tired of the enshittification of these services that it's either this or end my subscription with the entire human race
Siempre me ha parecido un tanto cínico que los mayores defensores del libre mercado y la libertad y la democracia hagan todo lo posible por impedir que otras naciones se desarrollen xD
August 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Siempre me ha parecido un tanto cínico que los mayores defensores del libre mercado y la libertad y la democracia hagan todo lo posible por impedir que otras naciones se desarrollen xD
Se viene una burbuja de AI?
- El índice P/E se acerca a niveles históricos de la burbuja dot-com. El caso emblemático es de Nvidia (P/E >50).
- Los LLM basados en "scaling laws" llegaron a tope (e.g., GPT5). No pueden mejorar más.
- El ROI en AI parece bajo (~6% vs un 10% necesario).
- El índice P/E se acerca a niveles históricos de la burbuja dot-com. El caso emblemático es de Nvidia (P/E >50).
- Los LLM basados en "scaling laws" llegaron a tope (e.g., GPT5). No pueden mejorar más.
- El ROI en AI parece bajo (~6% vs un 10% necesario).
August 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Se viene una burbuja de AI?
- El índice P/E se acerca a niveles históricos de la burbuja dot-com. El caso emblemático es de Nvidia (P/E >50).
- Los LLM basados en "scaling laws" llegaron a tope (e.g., GPT5). No pueden mejorar más.
- El ROI en AI parece bajo (~6% vs un 10% necesario).
- El índice P/E se acerca a niveles históricos de la burbuja dot-com. El caso emblemático es de Nvidia (P/E >50).
- Los LLM basados en "scaling laws" llegaron a tope (e.g., GPT5). No pueden mejorar más.
- El ROI en AI parece bajo (~6% vs un 10% necesario).
«Pero, por desgracia, comenzaba una de esas épocas en la que los moderados, los que prefieren la reflexión pausada, los conciliadores —aquellos a quienes los exaltados llaman tibios— son un blanco fácil, lejos de la protección de las filas cerradas»
El infinito en un junco. Irene Vallejo.
El infinito en un junco. Irene Vallejo.
August 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
«Pero, por desgracia, comenzaba una de esas épocas en la que los moderados, los que prefieren la reflexión pausada, los conciliadores —aquellos a quienes los exaltados llaman tibios— son un blanco fácil, lejos de la protección de las filas cerradas»
El infinito en un junco. Irene Vallejo.
El infinito en un junco. Irene Vallejo.
¿Qué se siente ser europeo de los tiempos que corren, crítico del genocidio, y a la vez vivir en el progreso, opulencia y desarrollo creado a partir de otros genicidios, extractivismo, esclavismo, colonialismo, abuso y destrucción se otras culturas?
August 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
¿Qué se siente ser europeo de los tiempos que corren, crítico del genocidio, y a la vez vivir en el progreso, opulencia y desarrollo creado a partir de otros genicidios, extractivismo, esclavismo, colonialismo, abuso y destrucción se otras culturas?
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“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
June 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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“…’AI' technologies, such as chatbots, large language models, and related products, are just that: products that the technology industry, just like the tobacco and petroleum industries, pump out for profit and in contradiction to the values of ecological sustainability,
A lot of the signatories to this letter are in the Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence department, and other scientific fields. They supply links to papers that support their concerns.
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
July 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
“…’AI' technologies, such as chatbots, large language models, and related products, are just that: products that the technology industry, just like the tobacco and petroleum industries, pump out for profit and in contradiction to the values of ecological sustainability,
Using AI for coding slows up to 19% professional developers, but they self-reported they completed tasks 20% faster
metr.org/blog/2025-07...
metr.org/blog/2025-07...
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...
metr.org
July 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Using AI for coding slows up to 19% professional developers, but they self-reported they completed tasks 20% faster
metr.org/blog/2025-07...
metr.org/blog/2025-07...
En el podcast No es el fin del mundo, en un episodio sobre México, recomendaron un libro de Paco Ignacio Taibo. En la sección de comentarios un escucha dice que tengan cuidado porque Taibo no es objetivo: es de izquierda.
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
En el podcast No es el fin del mundo, en un episodio sobre México, recomendaron un libro de Paco Ignacio Taibo. En la sección de comentarios un escucha dice que tengan cuidado porque Taibo no es objetivo: es de izquierda.
This is the best possible outcome if the AGI development is slowdown until the alignment problem is solved, according to top rationalists thinkers in their AI-2027 website. This is the most incredible part of their "forecast". I mean... you cannot be seriously saying that the only last bit of...
June 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is the best possible outcome if the AGI development is slowdown until the alignment problem is solved, according to top rationalists thinkers in their AI-2027 website. This is the most incredible part of their "forecast". I mean... you cannot be seriously saying that the only last bit of...
Let's not exaggerate our bewilderment. Scholars have been telling us this since the beginning.
June 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Let's not exaggerate our bewilderment. Scholars have been telling us this since the beginning.
American media will blame anything but the wide availability of guns
The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several “people search” sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data. www.wired.com/story/minnes...
Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses
The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several “people search” sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.
www.wired.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
American media will blame anything but the wide availability of guns
¿Por qué les cuesta tanto borrar su cuenta de X?
June 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
¿Por qué les cuesta tanto borrar su cuenta de X?
Hay un episodio de Gilmore Girls en donde Rory va a tomar un vaso de agua a un dispensador y unas asistentes le increpan diciéndole que no es un dispensador sino una obra de arte... Yo tendría miedo de ir al migitorio y orinar sobre un Duchamp
Tourists damage crystal-covered chair in Italian museum by sitting on it
Tourists damage crystal-covered chair in Italian museum by sitting on it
Palazzo Maffei in Verona contacts police after visitors cause Van Gogh’s Chair to buckle while posing for photos
An Italian museum has contacted the police after two clumsy tourists almost wrecked a work of art while posing for photos.
Video footage released by Palazzo Maffei in Verona showed the hapless pair photographing each other pretending to sit on a crystal-covered chair made by the artist Nicola Bolla – described by the museum as an “extremely fragile” work. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Hay un episodio de Gilmore Girls en donde Rory va a tomar un vaso de agua a un dispensador y unas asistentes le increpan diciéndole que no es un dispensador sino una obra de arte... Yo tendría miedo de ir al migitorio y orinar sobre un Duchamp
An assumption warranted only by self-indulgence
Editors should stop letting people do the “big reveal,” that they used chatgpt, for the end of the essay. At least show it up front so I don’t waste my time reading it. www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/17/1...
June 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
An assumption warranted only by self-indulgence
No.
The prospect that A.I. could end a civilization has drawn boomers and doomers toward the same flame. But OpenAI’s success has hinged less on speculative philosophies and more on familiar systems: the flexibility of American capital and Sam Altman’s charm.
Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future?
The C.E.O. of OpenAI helped usher artificial intelligence into public life. Now, as fears and fortunes mount, his own transformation is just beginning.
www.newyorker.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
No.
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Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
www.wired.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Una nota metaficcional. La escritora se queja de que no le han pagado en 6 meses, y los editores dejan pasar la nota como si nada.
Queda borrada de la web del periódico la versión online, pero el papel, una vez más, resiste. Esta columna de Leticia Martín debería estar en un museo. Es, simplemente, arte.
May 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Una nota metaficcional. La escritora se queja de que no le han pagado en 6 meses, y los editores dejan pasar la nota como si nada.
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Do large language models develop "emergent" models of the world? My latest Substack posts explore this claim and more generally the nature of "world models":
LLMs and World Models, Part 1: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
LLMs and World Models, Part 2: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
LLMs and World Models, Part 1: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
LLMs and World Models, Part 2: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
LLMs and World Models, Part 1
How do Large Language Models Make Sense of Their “Worlds”?
aiguide.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Do large language models develop "emergent" models of the world? My latest Substack posts explore this claim and more generally the nature of "world models":
LLMs and World Models, Part 1: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
LLMs and World Models, Part 2: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
LLMs and World Models, Part 1: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
LLMs and World Models, Part 2: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...
This NYT article is worth reading. It puts the current state of American politics into a broader philosophical and historical context and also serves as a warning.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/b...
No paywall:
archive.ph/bEdVR
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/b...
No paywall:
archive.ph/bEdVR
archive.ph
February 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This NYT article is worth reading. It puts the current state of American politics into a broader philosophical and historical context and also serves as a warning.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/b...
No paywall:
archive.ph/bEdVR
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/b...
No paywall:
archive.ph/bEdVR
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Episode 5 of our podcast is out! We discuss how complicated it is to assess intelligence, whether in humans, animals, or machines.
With two fantastic guests: Comparative Psychologist Erica Cartmill and Computer Scientist Ellie Pavlick.
Check it out!
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...
With two fantastic guests: Comparative Psychologist Erica Cartmill and Computer Scientist Ellie Pavlick.
Check it out!
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...
Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence? | COMPLEXITY
When it comes to assessing intelligence, people have all kinds of tests — the SAT, IQ tests, and so on. There’s controversy over how fairly these tests really measure human intelligence, but at the ve...
complexity.simplecast.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Episode 5 of our podcast is out! We discuss how complicated it is to assess intelligence, whether in humans, animals, or machines.
With two fantastic guests: Comparative Psychologist Erica Cartmill and Computer Scientist Ellie Pavlick.
Check it out!
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...
With two fantastic guests: Comparative Psychologist Erica Cartmill and Computer Scientist Ellie Pavlick.
Check it out!
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...
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🍿 🎬 Compiled a set of (brief) videos on computational complexity for cognitive scientists irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/12/27/c...
Computational complexity for cognitive scientists
Here, I compile a set of videos that complement a course on computational complexity for cognitive scientists that I co-teach with Nils Donselaar. We use the textbook Cognition and Intractability, tha...
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
December 27, 2023 at 10:41 PM
🍿 🎬 Compiled a set of (brief) videos on computational complexity for cognitive scientists irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/12/27/c...