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Via art historian Matthew J. Milliner: “Now that I know AI’s counselling allure experientially, I aim to resist it all the more. It is an act of human defiance to be there for each…

“The singularity has come for universities, and we must adapt as a result. If you think the main point of university humanities classes was to teach expository essay writing, the s…

“My Luddism comes from conviction. It also has much to do with temperament, and trace amounts of incompetence and disorganization. But fundamentally the tech world—with its buzzwor…

Do LLMs tempt us into specious reasoning and digital illusion? “LLMs, since they are designed and trained using behaviourist principles that rely on reinforcement, have an almost i…

Helpful response to Griffin's piece.

Rabbi Phil Graubart says Marc Andreessen's The Techno-Optimist Manifesto "ignores half of what it means to be human." What are the limits of technology in helping us overcome isola…