I’ve played with LLMs a fair amount and noticed something that these studies that show using LLMs degrading intellectual performance may not be picking up: What if having pretty good critical thinking skills makes LLMs less appealing/satisfying to use in the first place?

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

#WordOfTheWeek
精神内耗 (jīngshén nèi hào) – “spiritual burnout” a social media cultural phrase, capturing a deeply felt sense of emotional burnout in modern life.

the trump administration is destroying ALL higher education but we only hear about the ivies because that's where the rich and powerful went or where their kids go. the obsession with them is missing the bigger picture.

The overture to Raid on the White Tiger Regiment/奇袭白虎团 comes pretty close to it, though (delighted to learn that even yangban xi is in Doonesbury, a true panorama of the 70s)

THIS WHOLE STAR WARS SMACKS OF GENDER, I yell as I flip over the holotable at my uncle's barbecue, turning Life Day into the Life Day of Shit

No, because they have no idea any of it is happening. Just a vague sense that stuff is getting done.

Yet again, I would like to apologize to the shade of Sheri S. Tepper for all the times I thought her villains were “kinda over the top.”