Over the last century, liberal institutions have enabled vastly greater freedom for oppressed people than at any other time in human history. Movements that seek to tear down those institutions are willing misery on the people they mean to help.
Damn, according to the office of disability one of my students has “brain rot,” which means I have to let them submit AI-generated work.
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By every measure, Opus 4.8 beats human experts as peer reviewers in a study of 124 Harvard social science papers covering a range from statistical analyses to formal models to qualitative work.
As academics, we need to figure out how to adapt the practice of science to AI, fast.
Using AI is not permitted for precisely those things I’m skilled at and get social status from, fine otherwise.
Add this to the replication crisis: motivated reasoning that leads researchers to choose measures that will produce significant effects even if their hypotheses aren’t true, and getting lucky with reviewers who lack the conceptual training to notice.
I think my students are Republicans? They were pretty unhappy when I said I’m hoping for a bloodbath at the midterms.
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when i have really dumb questions i'll ask chatgpt or gemini because i don't want claude to think i'm stupid
If you’re an American, you should apologize profusely every time you meet a Canadian. This follows from a more general principle.
Just saw a little dog bark viciously at a larger dog that would have destroyed him. Reminded me of a certain kind of reply guy.
