Professor Nutella
@jpnudell.bsky.social
Pizza appreciator, ancient historian, reader, writer, baker. In some order.
Blogging here: https://joshuapnudell.com/blog/
Blogging here: https://joshuapnudell.com/blog/
SCS Blog: Part 2 of 2: Gender, Purity, and Artificial Women | Society for Classical Studies
www.classicalstudies.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The fruit of those months were several blog posts on the SCS blog. Here's part one:
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
SCS Blog: Part 1 of 2: Pygmalion in the Age of AI Companions | Society for Classical Studies
www.classicalstudies.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The fruit of those months were several blog posts on the SCS blog. Here's part one:
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/tor...
Reposted by Professor Nutella
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
(I read a decent amount of academic non-fiction unrelated to either teaching or research, hence the qualifier)
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
(I read a decent amount of academic non-fiction unrelated to either teaching or research, hence the qualifier)
This is one of those cases where I find the brand matters a lot. Good ricotta is creamy, fatty, and slightly sweet in a way that complements a lot of other flavors. Anything else is just there.
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is one of those cases where I find the brand matters a lot. Good ricotta is creamy, fatty, and slightly sweet in a way that complements a lot of other flavors. Anything else is just there.
I suspect that they save this explanation for the closed-door sessions because it tends to come off as too sinister for public consumption.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I suspect that they save this explanation for the closed-door sessions because it tends to come off as too sinister for public consumption.
At least there is something refreshing about the gambling industry in that they abandon the pretense of providing a valuable product and can instead get straight to the monetary transfer.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
At least there is something refreshing about the gambling industry in that they abandon the pretense of providing a valuable product and can instead get straight to the monetary transfer.