It is too hot and muggy. No oxygen in the air. The old air con runs. I hope it does not die. She does not care. In her mind, it is all fresh and green outside. And I am preventing her from enjoying all of it.
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"But you need to understand that the vast majority of AI researchers think those things will happen..." *Believe us, bro, because we believe in it* is not quite the evidence-based argument they think it is.
Aparna NairAI researchers can sure believe all this but biomedical research "curing entire disease classes" involving human subjects takes time. And should take time.
Gawd, I love this thread. Read it. Do it. Revel in the realness.
Glen O'HaraSoooo much drivel talked about universities. Soooo much self-serving nonsense. Like they're all Humanities colleges where politics matters loads! Yeah, not so much in the dental school you've never heard of or thought about guys. (1/?)
"OpenAI hires data scientists and describes itself as “an AI research and deployment company”. If it wants to claim the privilege of doing “research” in the scientific sense of the word, OpenAI should also accept the responsibilities that come with that..." theopinionpages.com/2024/01/ai-w...
AI: When Business and Science Don’t Mix | The Opinion PagesSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is a self-professed techno-optimist and accelerationist. He believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies will usher in a bright future for humanity and that w...theopinionpages.comThere is a whole history of dude-lit for dudes who cannot imagine being fascinated by or interested in anything other than finding some mirroring within a 21st-century social media caricature of dudeing.
Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' SobolEXCUSE ME?
Hiring freezes all around. Except for Assist Prof something-AI! Funding cuts. So don't do anything novel. (Who knows how long my lab will last? Instead, fund more AI and AI and... we don't need hard-earned data or methodology. We want more numbers from the magic ball! Sorry. Got honest for a sec.
Nicole RustUS scientists: Going into fall 26, how are you thinking about things? Following Fall 24 events and a tumultuous spring 25, I remember a convo with a colleague in which we agreed we just needed to wait things out until fall 25 and we'd have some clarity about the landscape (eg for funding). /1
This woman is the perfect example of why philosophers who do not read and think beyond their limited 5-sentence niche are dunderheads and, in this case, sellouts, as much as the cognitive scientists who sell their souls for funding (not sure there was ever enough brain to sell).
Elke SchwarzThis is perhaps more of a form of theology rather than philosophy if the premise on which the thinking rests derives from an unquestionable belief. observer.com/2026/06/anth...
The first few sentences made me roll my eyes harder than Angela Merkel in her prime. My goodness, why don't you guys get a room?
Dave KarpfJust started reading Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of Demis Hassabis and I’m already winded by the hype. “Artificial intelligence heralds a transformation more profound than anything since Homo sapiens acquired the capacity for abstract thought, some seventy thousand years ago.” …Sure, man. Sure.