"I'm scared my llm is gaining consciousness" is Havana syndrome for guys that are too scared to ride the bus by themselves
06.03.2026 23:46
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"I'm scared my llm is gaining consciousness" is Havana syndrome for guys that are too scared to ride the bus by themselves
editing stuff on the same day you wrote it is nowhere near as good as editing after you've had a day to sleep on it and push what you were intending to write out of your brain b/c with same day editing you see what you wanted to write even if it isn't actually on the page
(from a lit professor)
(and yes, they have earbuds. yes, they know they can take calls in their earbuds. No, I don't know why they refuse to use the earbuds instead)
at least they aren't doing the boomer thing were instead of holding their phone up to their ear to have a phone call they turn on speakerphone and just hold their phone in front of their chest and just talk at 150% of normal volume
I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause.
I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does.
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This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.
Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.
This directly relates to the farce of universities suggesting faculty pivot from unpredictable federal funding to private funding.
The federal agencies aren't perfect, but they have processes for minimizing these cronyism biases
Is there a section on what you should say if a student challenges a grade b/c they found out you used ai in creating/evaluating assignments or are you on your own for that
(I'm guessing there's a "don't use this for anything super important" wink wink nudge nudge disclaimer up top but still)
I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.
I always assumed that I was one of the least motivated and diligent people in whatever cohort I was in but then after seeing academics just casually embrace using AI to do their jobs for them I've learned that, no, it turns out I've been taking my work more seriously than a lot of people out there
They never have a good answer for this question because to answer it they'd have to admit they don't actually give a shit about whether what they say is true b/c they are one of the people for whom if the shortcut is good enough that they won't get caught most of the time then that means "it works"
me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
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tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
I still can't get over how almost every site had keyword search down pat until like ~2018ish when search just stopped working on almost every site.
I don't think we can blame LLM slop for this because of the timing and I'm not sure you can blame SEO for a website borking its own internal search
Some academic habits are maladaptive in wider society. But “cite your sources every time” — and information literacy habits more generally — deserves to be educational priority number one right now
i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Colorado Springs folks, please take a moment and offer public comments of support for the new mosque being built. There are several hateful comments, very few supportive comments.
Email: MirandaBenson2@elpasoco.com
Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.
They are building this massive new data science and AI institute (that will house 100 faculty) next door to the department that studies climate change (which, checks notes, has 15ish faculty) in a building that is non-functional most days.
Which says just about every fucking thing about 2026.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
please bring back the lyme vaccine. i deserve it. i do not want lyme. i will accept fake knee pain for the vaccine. thank you.
On the same night NCAR is being defunded, Boulder county is cutting power as a precaution because of the dry and windy conditions today. Last time we had similar conditions a thousand people lost their homes in the Marshall fire. The irony could not be more poignant.
I was going to unload on Matt Yglesias' recent flow of utter bullshit re. data centers and western water, but Jonathan Thompson has saved me the trouble. Abundance mindset really fails in places where there really is not abundance.
#westernwater #drought
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No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.
just saw a commercial featuring a dude who said he’s a marketer in Seattle, and sometimes he hits a wall creatively, so he likes using an A.I. tool to write marketing materials for him. in a just world, this would be a fireable offense and it would be too humiliating to admit this in public
Charles Elton wrote his classic book "Animal Ecology" nearly a century ago (1927). Much of it remains insightful, and the Conclusion still resonates.
