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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Jul 29

Spite is one of those things AI will never understand.
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Notes on Spite

Rawls & Rationality in the 1970s

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · 5d

If you were to design society from scratch, behind the veil of ignorance, would you choose to have social media? If you didn’t know whether you’d be an influencer with 10 million followers, or someone whose mental health is destroyed? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/rawls-and-...

Pynchon ripping the veil

Rawls & Rationality in the 1970s

Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · 5d

If you were to design society from scratch, behind the veil of ignorance, would you choose to have social media? If you didn’t know whether you’d be an influencer with 10 million followers, or someone whose mental health is destroyed? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/rawls-and-...

Pynchon ripping the veil

Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · 11d

I am making a case for building and defending universities in a world that is requiring a defensive and forward-thinking posture. There are many wolves at the doors of academia, Academics need to be building brick houses, not dismantling them. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-academ...

The Academy Now

On Lorde and the wolf

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · 13d

AI is a logic machine that recognizes the logic of power. AI is not itself the master, but a tool for mastering reality, if one uses it for that rather than for aphoristic pleasure. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-academ...

The Academy Now

On Lorde and the wolf

About FIRE’s Free Speech Rankings (opinion)

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 23d

Opinion | About That FIRE Study

The methodology for measuring campus free speech ignores the changing ways students are engaging with controversial ideas—privately, and with the aid of AI, Hollis Robbins writes. https://bit.ly/4nuPRcH

A close-up of a college student using an AI app on her smartphone in a semi-darkened room.

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Claudio @calligaris.bsky.social · 24d

“Students’ reluctance to perform controversial viewpoints in public settings may reflect a paradigm shift that meaningful engagement with controversial ideas requires privacy and reflection. AI may deliver all this far more fruitfully than the performative classroom discussions that FIRE champions”

Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · 24d

Why on earth should most students go hear "speakers" these days when controversial ideas can be discussed safely from the privacy of the dorm room, with their AI chatbot. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The methodology for measuring campus free speech ignores the changing ways students are engaging with controversial ideas—privately, and with the aid of AI, Hollis Robbins writes.

www.insidehighered.com

About FIRE’s Free Speech Rankings (opinion)

Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · 24d

Why on earth should most students go hear "speakers" these days when controversial ideas can be discussed safely from the privacy of the dorm room, with their AI chatbot. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The methodology for measuring campus free speech ignores the changing ways students are engaging with controversial ideas—privately, and with the aid of AI, Hollis Robbins writes.

www.insidehighered.com

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 26

If your experience and learning is largely online, you are going to have a harder time being hired as a person by a person. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-canary...

The Canary in the Classroom

A new Stanford AI study exposes the growing gap between education and employment

When I hear “viewpoint diversity,” I think Diogenes the Cynic

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Sep 3

For those skeptical of the "viewpoint diversity" conversation... hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/when-i-hea...

Why he should be invited to the table but won't be

Autonomy v. Strangers on a Train

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Sep 7

What does our new Abundance future bode for public transportation? Isolation or togetherness? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/autonomy-v...

Notes on public transportation, social fabric, and culture

When I hear “viewpoint diversity,” I think Diogenes the Cynic

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Sep 3

For those skeptical of the "viewpoint diversity" conversation... hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/when-i-hea...

Why he should be invited to the table but won't be

The Canary in the Classroom

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 26

If your experience and learning is largely online, you are going to have a harder time being hired as a person by a person. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-canary...

A new Stanford AI study exposes the growing gap between education and employment

Is embracing AI intellectual or anti-intellectual ?

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Jun 17

When you have walk-in advising, you don’t notice the loss of faculty mentors. When you have affinity groups, you don’t notice that all of your courses and assignments are beginning to look the same. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/is-embraci...

Where does belonging belong?

AI seeks a degree (or, the ghost in the machine)

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 6

Claude can ace any online asynchronous course where there is minimum human interaction. This is the Claude test: if Claude can pass it easily, so can students, using Claude. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-claude...

The Claude Test

Vision Without Seeing (Part II)

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 21

In which I continue my review of Adam Zeman’s book and ask: did Ronald Reagan have aphantasia? open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

and, did Ronald Reagan have aphantasia?

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 21

In which I continue my review of Adam Zeman’s book and ask: did Ronald Reagan have aphantasia? open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

Vision Without Seeing (Part II)

and, did Ronald Reagan have aphantasia?

open.substack.com

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 19

Diane Seuss is the absolute best.

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 19

I wrote this after an off-the-record conversation with a reporter who wanted to know how a "good" student might use AI in a class in a non-cheating way. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/who-the-he...

Who the He** is Edward Trelawny?

In which a student with AI doesn't follow the prompt

Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Notes on Spite. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/notes-on-s...

How to Tell if Something is AI-Written

Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 14

Poets happy with today's Wordle.

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just in time for back to school! hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-tel...

It is easy for me, with aphantasia

How to Tell if Something is AI-Written

Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just in time for back to school! hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-tel...

It is easy for me, with aphantasia