xkcd.com

And one of the world's most famous statisticians.

I guess this one might count as a bit obvious, but was a book that turned me on to biographies in general.

Ahem.

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Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

Five preoccupied to protect the human ecosystem 4/5

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem. 2/5

Five principles to protect the ecosystem of human knowledge. 1/5

@tomstafford.bsky.social has argued that the infoglut we live in is like when densely populated cities made plagues more likely. We need to normalise new hygienic practices. @olivia.science et al set some out.

"But AI tools will be just like calculators..."

Students aren't generally looking to cheat, and most think LLM use should not be allowed in college education. Let's not allow salespeople to speak for them.

Why higher ed teaching is hard, and always will be. But we don't do it because it is easy, and we are trusted to do it well because we have hard earned expertise in our fields. Let's not undervalue that, hey?

It is vital that we don't overestimate our understanding of human cognition.

Yes, there is reason to believe we have a better grasp of some things than when AI hype first appeared in the 1950s, but that better understanding is not clear, and almost certainly isn't on the basis of simple computation

Sigh. Paging Sam Altman.

The more I learn about history, the more I understand how important learning about history is. This is doubly important in my own professional field.

@olivia.science and colleagues driving home the point against the inevitability of AI reminding us of this.

Thank goodness I finally have a technology that can automate my being suckered by phishing scams.

And all is costs is our environment, our autonomy, and our dignity.