Interesting. According to a new result, studying philosophy makes people better at thinking and arguing, and better at assessing different points of view. Creme de la creme of the disciplines. Blimey! So, now more philosophy to everybody, right?
1. A short thread about science reform, based on a conversation I've been having with several wonderful colleagues. As people push to insert more and more bureaucracy into the practice of scientific research so as to police a few bad apples, Iâm reminded of a FOX News piece Iâve written about.
In this example drawn from a Fox News story, we demonstrate how Fermi estimation can cut through bullshit like a hot knife through butter.
ââŠwhen speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.â
âDriving while Blackâ: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
Footnotes are terrible, a cop-out. Everywhere. If something cannot be included in the main text, then it is not worth including at all.
Many institutions - companies, universities - advocating the use of LLMs seem to still entertain the illusion that there are thoughts inside people's heads, and that writing is simply a matter of output of these thoughts. Not so. Writing *is thinking.
Theyâre not even trying to hide it anymore. âMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train Al models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter.â
The Prestige Factor Propping Up Academic Publishers A federal antitrust lawsuit against a group of megapublishers highlights how academiaâs system of rewarding researchers for publishing in certain journals has undermined their leverage. #HigherEd#EDUSky#AcademicSkybit.ly/3TDlSmw
A federal antitrust lawsuit against a group of megapublishers highlights how academiaâs system of rewarding researchers for publishing in certain journals has undermined their leverage.
â'If AI is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die', he said, looking out to the crowd from center stage. 'So many of you feel imminently replaceable.'â Word! sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/c...
"Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"