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> I told my physio that I do mind. I am not comfortable with everything being recorded, especially not if it goes through an AI. She gracefully accepted and wrote notes like a norm…

There's not a full clip, probably because it was taken from private speeches. But the article does a good job of putting it into context, and discussing how his private rhetoric is…

Yes, this was Mummenschanz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTYScKgEus

That makes sense. It sounds like the good parts of TikTok are getting little slices of life from interesting people, and of course, jokes and entertaining stuff, and the misaligned…

I remember rolling my eyes at Technopoly a lot more than I did at Amusing Ourselves, but actually...I read Technopoly maybe 15 years ago, when the Internet had a lot more promise a…

This is not exactly correct. When the book was written, a lot of commentators had written off television as useless garbage -- totally bad for society. Postman (correctly) complica…

This feels like a question that would really benefit from talking to some musicians, instead of basing your framing on biopics and data. Some musicians are in it to be rich and fam…

I wonder the same thing. If any academic reading this wants a paper idea: 1. Examine papers and other claims that an LLM gets something wrong that a human would have gotten wrong. …

The idea that these word problems (and other LLM stumpers) are "easily solvable by humans" needs some empirical data behind it. Computer people like puzzles, and this kind of thing…

You're not alone -- a lot of this resonates with me, but I (also in my 40s) might be a little further along in my journey and have a few more resources to draw on. But I feel this.…

[response to a deleted comment] > The issue is too systemic at this point Ah, but there are also systemic issues that prevent Congress from doing the things you'd like them to do. …

There are some good points here, but the sweeping conclusion (presented with utter certainty) does not follow from them. It seems like the author's beef is with journals, rather th…

If these people create real music, "fake" seems like the wrong adjective. It's very common for musicians to be involved in a bunch of different bands, or even for the same group of…