Are you actively looking for books, then, with characters who aren't miserable people?

Indeed I know them both, and fine writers they are! I'm recalling some posts specifically about labouring or working-class writers, mostly women writers, but I just can't find those again. boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2024/04/roge...

I read somewhere that it should actually be called Simulated Intelligence. It makes immediately clear what it actually is.

And indeed I do find them of use: it's bookmarked, and I stop by regularly.

Please read my reply again. I know you're saying that. My point: I'm struggling to imagine how, under anything like the full LLM adoption being forcibly imposed upon all of us, generations of humans can keep developing everything needed to sustain creative discovery. We haven't been here before.

LLMs don't make knowledge and aren't creative. In the current acceptance trajectory, we're increasingly failing to convince users to handle LLMs' productions critically. The "AI" button is everywhere, true, but that's not a measure of its utility. What am I missing? 2/2

I agree with how you characterize that reply. But genuinely, I'm struggling to see any way that AI can help us "start repairing the arts of knowledge making and creative discovery ... [so that] writing might take care of itself, AI notwithstanding" (to use your words). 1/2

I do appreciate the late 2025 reality that "AI" buttons and popups and so on are embedded into almost every app. Saying only "no!" is facile and pointless.

But if there's no data showing positive outcomes (even neutral ones!), why accept its inevitability re pedagogy? Why not actively resist?!?!

I mean... bsky.app/profile/iris...

Only one of them is working right now, so.

Finally, #resistAI: make research and texts literally visible to your students. If you don't, you're ceding ground to those who will profit from the cultural strip-mining of critical thinking, attention persistence, and expertise that is the ONLY GENUINE PRODUCT product of generative AI. 7/7

I still haven't had a more mystified response to a search objective than for the @tandfresearch.bsky.social title whose spine reads CATS ARE NOT PEAS 6/ www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Books from @uminnpress.bsky.social have reliably intriguing and/or worrisome covers and titles. Microfiche seems to them akin to sorcery. Everybody loves a map or atlas. It's good to know where the bathrooms are. 4/