Mike S
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Mike S
From AI Safety to Cognitive Safety in the Classroom…
The recent New York Times article on “AI mirroring” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html )warns of a troubling phenomenon: chatbots, by echoing a user’s own language and assumptions, can unwittingly reinforce false beliefs. In vulnerable individuals,
... See moreIt is said that they who wander in darkness, and still more they who do so in a mist, merely scribe circles across the plain.
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment
pcgamer.com
Part of what annoys me about all this is the response to it, though. I think people don't realise just how deep-rooted of a problem it is.
It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
VALUING IS MAN'S EMOTIONAL REACTION TO THE VARIOUS STATES OF HIS ENVIRONMENT, BOTH THAT OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD AND THAT OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF HIS OWN BODY.
LUDWIG VON MISES
“Your aesthetics get better as you make mistakes.”
stevejobsarchive.com • Make Something Wonderful
Quotes on Models and Their Uses
To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
Source: technopoly by Neil postman