this is so good, I may just literally print it out and pin it to the wall https://t.co/rZpQjNBzDc
this is so good, I may just literally print it out and pin it to the wall https://t.co/rZpQjNBzDc
The more I read essays by academics on AI, the more I think that universities are almost uniquely ill-suited to adapt to it. Which is not a slam—the there is much to love about academia. But universities are unwieldy behemoths run by committee, and staffed by people who have spent decades at honing only the very skills that AI is best at... See more
Megan McArdlex.comIs there any idea so outlandish that it won't be published in a Critical/PoMo/Identity/"Theory" journal? Helen Plucrose et al. submitted a dozen hoax papers to find out. https://t.co/TTDLuIQN9p via @areomagazine
Steven Pinkerx.comAn academic theory that prioritizes what it believes ought to be true over the aim of describing what is—that is, one that sees personal belief as a political obligation—has ceased to search for knowledge because it believes it has The Truth. That is, it has become a system of faith, and its scholarship has become a sort of theology. This is what
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