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"So a ban now is to say to ’Children, we can’t make the regulation work. We can’t update it fast enough. We haven’t built you anything else to do, but that’s just tough.'" - Dr. Sonia Livingstone.
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PUT DOWN THE AI AND PICK UP A FUCKING BOOK: EPISODE 6 💙📚
I present to you:
"Anton Hur's sff novel Toward Eternity is about how poets write the universe!!!!; or poetry is really fucking important."
earrings were a gift of unknown origin!
I present to you:
"Anton Hur's sff novel Toward Eternity is about how poets write the universe!!!!; or poetry is really fucking important."
earrings were a gift of unknown origin!
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So Kindle is removing tech support from its device, pretty much requiring people to buy new ones, and introducing ads. This is why we sell our ReBound press books on Kobo. Also for ideological reasons: Amazon has been terribly destructive too booksellers and publishers, and I refuse to support it.
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I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Debates about satellite broadcasting from the 1980s hold lessons for today’s debates over digital sovereignty and AI governance, writes Emrys Schoemaker. They suggest how we negotiate matters as much as what we negotiate, he says.
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The biggest mistake I see in critiques against AI critique is that critics “can’t imagine a better world.” That confuses me. Critics are often imagining a better world and also trying to achieve it in practice. But there’s no reason to believe a better world demands this very specific tech stack.
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“Labor Tech Research Network invites submissions for our fifth annual Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice Awards. The deadline is June 1.” Via @labortechresearchnetwork.org
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
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Everyone knows this industry sucks but it really is just a shakedown racket
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📣 So happy to share with you the results of my main PhD study, where two human predators worked together to hunt a human prey in Minecraft, and had their brains scanned simultaneously using fNIRS 🎮🧠
We find that the brains of the predators are synchronised in the prefrontal cortex during hunting! 💡
We find that the brains of the predators are synchronised in the prefrontal cortex during hunting! 💡
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"More than two-thirds of all full-time students in the UK now take on paid work during term-time. For international students, the financial pressure can be especially sharp. Some work cash in hand to get around the 20-hour limit imposed by their visa."
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"If social media put us in echo chambers and polarized our world, AI might put us in straitjackets and shatter it into 8 billion private realities, in a folie a deux of personalized delusion."
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I've explained this to many outsiders people in response to their complaints about international students taking the slots of "more deserving" domestic students, and they understand it for a minute but when the conversation ends their racist programming kicks back in.
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Want to be clear it’s still a relatively fringe thing to say in business media that OpenAI has no path to profitability and may run out of money! Far less than it used to be but by the time people accept it as gospel Sam Altman will be vagueposting about how “everyone wanted him to lose” on Twitter
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"But thinking about humans as a biological binary — belonging to only one category at a time — overlooks extensive and robust scholarship showing the complexity of bodies, lives, and the patterns of variation in the species on the whole." sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/25/humans-are-wonderfully-varied-scholars-shouldnt-let-the-government-say-otherwise/
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Watched Strange Days (1995). The entire film is focused on a Y2K - virtual reality plotline involving sex / crime and it's just interesting seeing how much they got right and wrong about technology (though the timeline is vastly off). Namely, the ways that new tech would be used against women.
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"This is the ouroboros. The snake eating its own tail. AI writes the code. AI reviews the code. AI checks the deployment. When it breaks, the answer is more AI. The loop has no exit condition."
There are so many powerful cautionary lessons — both technological + methodological — in here.
There are so many powerful cautionary lessons — both technological + methodological — in here.
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“…the 57,000-square-foot space on downtown’s western edge contains multitudes. It combines a public library, a black-box theatre, a media lab, a social services hub, urban agriculture and the café under one roof.” Must visit! 🤗
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"Klonick says that the State Department issuing a formal cable endorsing a specific social media platform for use in its messaging—and doing so in the same document that it encourages collaboration with military psychological operations—would have been nearly unthinkable until recent months."
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Some people will assert that current tech allows you to do this already, but I think that ignores how these features will lower the barrier for something like automating calorie counting while a chatbot negs you about your weight.
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This is known as "the illusions of understanding."
www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07146-0
#AI #ALife #socialpsyc #cogpsyc
www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07146-0
#AI #ALife #socialpsyc #cogpsyc
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Bayesians: does anyone (@solomonkurz.bsky.social maybe?) have a good resource for how to set priors for beginners? Such as what kind of information in past papers you can use to inform your choices?
I found this but any resources welcome! svmiller.com/blog/2021/02/thinking-about-your-priors-bayesian-analysis/
I found this but any resources welcome! svmiller.com/blog/2021/02/thinking-about-your-priors-bayesian-analysis/
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"Conceptually distinct from cognitive offloading (Risko & Gilbert, 2016)... cognitive surrender represents a deeper abdication of critical evaluation, where the user relinquishes cognitive control and adopts the AI's judgment as their own."
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"Across studies, participants with higher trust in AI
and lower need for cognition and fluid intelligence showed greater surrender to System 3."
and lower need for cognition and fluid intelligence showed greater surrender to System 3."
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We took a really wrong turn when starting to think of computing "effiency" in terms of human effort (LLMs, "vibe coding", etc.) rather that computational resources (i.e. algorithm design and optimization).
Why did the field of Computing Science allow this to pass?
Why did the field of Computing Science allow this to pass?
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"The AVPA has lobbied in favor of age verification laws alongside Project 2025 organizations and its adjacent groups, including entities classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as either anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-government hate groups."
Yikes.
Yikes.
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Three months into Australia's under-16 social media ban, a report from the eSafety Commissioner exposes the gap between regulatory requirements and corporate compliance. Lawmakers and regulators in other countries should take note, write Ramsha Jahangir and Mark Scott.
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Sadly, the post Covid attitude shift never happened.
"Low Carbon Research Methods explores the epistemological & equity impacts of high-carbon research as well as the potential gains made possible through a transition towards slower, less mobile, & more collaborative forms of inquiry and exchange."
"Low Carbon Research Methods explores the epistemological & equity impacts of high-carbon research as well as the potential gains made possible through a transition towards slower, less mobile, & more collaborative forms of inquiry and exchange."
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