You're all obsessed with @nathancofnas's work on race and IQ and totally sleeping on his most important paper. (We are not the same.) link.springer.com/article/10…

Today we published one of the best things I've read on the trans debate. Free of the usual acrimony that surrounds these issues, it's compassionate, clear-eyed, and a partisan only of evidence and reason. By @Edokwin. Check it out: freeblackthought.substack.co…

I disagree with many parts of this response, but I will focus on one in particular. The anonymous PhD student wrote: "seeing mathematicians greet this release of papers with excitement and joy is beyond confusing. Many celebrate the possibility that AI will relieve them of the burden of difficult calculations, technical lemmas, and other supposedly tedious aspects of mathematical research...I love technical work...I can tell you that I entered graduate school fully intending to pursue a career as a research mathematician. The actions of October 6th have reversed this, and I’m probably not the only one." Lozeno-Robledo responds: "We need to make sure students do not abandon mathematics because they think it has become unrecognizable." I disagree. We are going through a revolution in mathematics. It will change many aspects of what it means to be a mathematician. I believe mathematicians will continue to have a key role in mathematical discovery, at least in the near term, and the profession will continue to be one that attracts many people of the highest calibre. And yes, training these people will include us finding ways of making them struggle, perhaps in line with Niall Ferguson's "the cloister and the starship" suggestion. But there is no reason to expect that the people for whom the new mathematics will be the right profession are necessarily the same people for whom mathematics as we have known it was the right one. If a student finds that the profession is becoming unrecognisable, and that what it is becoming no longer appeals to them, then it may well be that the best course for them is to leave mathematics and pursue something else. That is not necessarily something we should seek to prevent. Every revolution changes the nature of a calling, and whom it calls.

Those outside university departments may not realize that very few psychology academics are fully into the critical social justice thing (woke). Some are to a degree, some conform which is sad, some like DEI because they think it will protect or promote them, but psychological scientists are generally good critical thinkers. Especially since DEI no longer wins grants in the USA. In no way are they like the school of education department at Cambridge. I don't want to give the untrue impression that wokeness dominates faculty meetings in universities in 2026. It doesn't quite like it wasted time in 2019 or 2020. Woke-affected policies do continue to do harm, years after, though. Eg the defacto removal of in person exams. It's complicated, and not what you would imagine from what one sees on social media.

Could not disagree more completely. There has never been a better time to learn, make, to create, to be alive. A lot needs disrupting. What's embarrassing is the studious "looking the other way" shown by University academics and leaderst he last 5 years: They should be ambitiously adopting and enabling improvement to learning: AI in the classroom, interactive re-writing of learning materials based on student answers. The equivalent of the 1-on-1 model for every kid. Their validity is threatened: They have shifted back entirely to invigilated in-person exams. Instead they are doing the opposite, *shutting down exams*!! Academia should be making classes adaptive and responsive to the personalized proofs of knowledge enabled by AI: Infinitely variable tests, given without preparation to validate student knowledge, and ingesting what we know about memory and spaced testing to build useful knowledge. The demotivation, if such exists, is down to people saying loudly look at me: the world is ending. The same line has been pervasive for a thousand years: The usual anti-education "educators" BS'ing about "don't learn anything it will be out of date" now they insert "AI will do it". It's sickening. Always has been. Kids must ignore these people: calle them what they are "Always wrong: just do the opposite of what she says" Academics should demonstrate to kids that cheating, as it *always has*, will mean the student will learn nothing (except perhaps to think of themselves as nothing but a cheat). Assign the homework, set take-home problem sets, and the term papers. Get AI to grade them if it helps set more. Just make the exams *in person* and make them count 80% - students who cheated will fail. If they don't, then there was nothing to worry about. For the real output: the products and research, just rate it on how amazing it is. It should never have been about the person or the grant. The idea we can't take 'smart glasses' phones off students during an exam is capitulation. That too has always been around. Wokeness denies the very existence of intellect and truth. AI makes it more available at lower cost than ever in history. AI is a serious threat only to those who – like the computer, before that the pen, or machines – who refuse to use it: It's a tool. AI is probably the greatest tool people have ever invented. Salaries are not falling, unemployment is not rising, plumbers, electricians, radiologists are all in work on salaries higher that we will see. For conservatives, students in particular, this is a *fantastic* time to converse live, for hours a day, for maybe $1 with the equivalent of the best personal tutors in history. And on every topic from Aristotle to CRISPR to Space to art. The real threat, the ever present threat for all of conscious history, is people banning this tool in the pretense that not having AI will "empower" those who have it wrested from their hands. It won't. Banning AI also won't cause people to read, write, learn, or practice a skill development. Anyone who uses it know their own knowledge and skills are going through the roof. Feels their capability expanded beyond their ability. Feels the ability to answer, and then to do, better and more than ever in history. I can barely sleep it's so exciting drinking from this fire hose of possibilities.