Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
We need to talk a bit less about LLM hallucination which is serious but fairly rare apart from links and a bit more about conflation. The flash sideways scene is from season 6, not season 2. I get about one conflation error like this a day that I notice. It's a *very* common failure mode.
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We need to talk a bit less about LLM hallucination which is serious but fairly rare apart from links and a bit more about conflation. The flash sideways scene is from season 6, not season 2. I get about one conflation error like this a day that I notice. It's a *very* common failure mode.
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Also gives me a chance to post one of my favorite season finale end scenes (she knows the way to earth, folks)
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Also gives me a chance to post one of my favorite season finale end scenes (she knows the way to earth, folks)
Here we go
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Here we go
these timestamps tell the story of why i don't watch baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
these timestamps tell the story of why i don't watch baseball
The fact that the Hatch Act has just disappeared is not the worst violation of this government but it's a good microcosm of the problem with everything right now, e.g. laws are not self-enforcing
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The fact that the Hatch Act has just disappeared is not the worst violation of this government but it's a good microcosm of the problem with everything right now, e.g. laws are not self-enforcing
I was wondering for a while what the opposite of sycophantic was and in receiving this response from AI Mode I have to say the answer is "brutal"
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I was wondering for a while what the opposite of sycophantic was and in receiving this response from AI Mode I have to say the answer is "brutal"
Gotta say I love this artwork
October 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Gotta say I love this artwork
The method isn't really a *replacement* for SIFT as much as a supplement. I tried to figure out how to break exploration of claims using AI into a set of moves that built on one another, in ways that played toward the strengths and against the weaknesses of LLMs as cultural tech.
October 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The method isn't really a *replacement* for SIFT as much as a supplement. I tried to figure out how to break exploration of claims using AI into a set of moves that built on one another, in ways that played toward the strengths and against the weaknesses of LLMs as cultural tech.
40 minutes away from my first public presentation and demo of my new interim model for AI-based contextualization: Get it in, track it down, follow up. (It's 6:22 pm here but it's Friday morning in Singapore. I am starting to flag a bit, but I know I'll get the energy on starting)
October 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
40 minutes away from my first public presentation and demo of my new interim model for AI-based contextualization: Get it in, track it down, follow up. (It's 6:22 pm here but it's Friday morning in Singapore. I am starting to flag a bit, but I know I'll get the energy on starting)
Ok, let's go...
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Ok, let's go...
A company that greenlights this is not one that actually thinks they are going to automate 30% of jobs within five years.
October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A company that greenlights this is not one that actually thinks they are going to automate 30% of jobs within five years.
Jesus Christ dude, just read the tweet. Each word is there for a reason. What are you even doing here?
October 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Jesus Christ dude, just read the tweet. Each word is there for a reason. What are you even doing here?
What a weird end to that subheading. Harvard students skip classes because they are recorded, they can pass without going, they don't do the reading, and intro to psychology is no harder at Harvard than at SUNY Oswego (honestly might be easier) so why not.
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
What a weird end to that subheading. Harvard students skip classes because they are recorded, they can pass without going, they don't do the reading, and intro to psychology is no harder at Harvard than at SUNY Oswego (honestly might be easier) so why not.
October 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
James Bond Blu-ray collection at Walmart now just $40 a pound
October 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
James Bond Blu-ray collection at Walmart now just $40 a pound
Yep
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Yep
I used to have to argue with people that the worst impact of misinformation was not really felt through public consumption but through elite consumption but I think it's as clear as it can get now.
September 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I used to have to argue with people that the worst impact of misinformation was not really felt through public consumption but through elite consumption but I think it's as clear as it can get now.
I find the consensus around what the best Blu-ray UHD player is pretty refreshing, sometimes groups *can* come to common conclusions
September 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I find the consensus around what the best Blu-ray UHD player is pretty refreshing, sometimes groups *can* come to common conclusions
Man, streaming video was a mistake. Look at these Blu-ray extras. We need to return, how do we get back to this
September 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Man, streaming video was a mistake. Look at these Blu-ray extras. We need to return, how do we get back to this
Most of them.
September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Most of them.
Geez. Via the Derek Thompson newsletter.
September 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Geez. Via the Derek Thompson newsletter.
I'm not saying you have to cancel Disney plus and Hulu but I do want you to think how you're going to feel if Ted Fucking Cruz posts his cancellation receipt before you
September 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm not saying you have to cancel Disney plus and Hulu but I do want you to think how you're going to feel if Ted Fucking Cruz posts his cancellation receipt before you
Also google "What people are saying" under that search will give you life -- check it out: www.google.com/search?q=can...
September 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Also google "What people are saying" under that search will give you life -- check it out: www.google.com/search?q=can...