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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · Jan 7

It's important to need to keep in mind that AI is literally making us dumber.

Overreliance on these tools to make decisions undermines our future ability to think critically and make decisions for ourselves effectively. We *need* to continue to exercise our minds in order to retain our humanity.

Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · Jan 7

This new study underscores one of my biggest objections to the use of AI in the classroom. For me, those objections fall into 3 categories: 1) the environmental impact; 2) cognitive offloading and ... 1/2 www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking

The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relations...

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 5h

Pat Casey (pejorative) absolutely would.

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 5h

I’m skeptical of AI as a quality content generation machine, but if you’re going to write the same article with the same charts every year, GameHasChangedGPT might actually work for you.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 6h

So many people have been saying that CITIZEN KANE is deeply uncool. They are wrong.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 7h

It is finally time for somebody to say CITIZEN KANE is a good movie: defector.com/breaking-som...

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many hundred...

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 10h

Leo clean on opsec.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 20h

This is cursed knowledge.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 22h

The people's houses shall not be infringed.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

The TLDR is "grew up listening to 90s punk, heard American IV at a party, recognized greatness, bought the CD within 24 hours".

This all sounds pretty damn typical other than the assumptions about others. American IV rocks and introduced Cash's greatness to a new generation with his dying breaths

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO, someone else clipped this without the masthead and I was confused...but now it makes more sense.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

This might be the perfect review.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

I.e. the specific details of why dillution doesn't work are interesting.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the body does normally dilute poison - that's why safety datasheets list toxicity in g/kg, why medicine doses vary with weight, etc.

The results here aren't necessarily surprising (e.g. existing work showed very low levels of misinfo poisons medical LLMs) but aren't intuitively obvious either.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

With generative AI what's even more disruptive is the load on the editing process. You get spammed by AI submissions that are superficially "fine", and put a heavy load on reviewers. A subset of those reviewers are "too busy" to review and just feed through AI - and their edits are often nonsense.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

Even before the generative AI explosion there were BS papers and people P-hacking by just throwing data into R to see what it spat out as statistically significant. This would juice their publication numbers, help them advance their careers, etc.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

Publication spam has long been an issue. Professional advancement requires publishing, and depending on institution and field departments might value quality (citation rates and publishing in high impact-factor journals) or quantity. Even the same good work could be 1 great paper or 2-3 fine ones.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

This stuff is just poisoning all sorts of learning, academic inquiry and data analysis. I was talking to an acquaintance who's editor of an academic journal a couple of days ago. He'd mentioned receiving submissions of the *exact same paper* from 2 completely different groups seeking publication.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

Just do what Microsoft says and ask excel to "run a full analysis" and give you 'important insights".

I hate clicking links like Terry's ...but one thing stood out. He claimed to be bad at R after a year, and that GPT did things he couldn't. Is *he" even qualified?

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 9d

Surely this will end well.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 1d

The scones...are...unsound.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 2d

Had he said 5 months that would have been a bit too overt.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 3d

Just what we want, software to make errors and generate bad data "on our behalf".

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 3d

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 4d

Scaramuccis. They were just appointed yesterday.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 4d

His 18 ministers didn't even combine for 2 before getting lame ducked though.

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mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 5d

There's actually some wild politics surrounding wild horses.

The horses laughter echos as they run away from the guy that's been stalking them to shoot them with their annual contraceptive dart.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 5d

It really pains me how necessary speaking these obvious truths has become.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 6d

That's what pushed me over the edge and I've also been using linux, bsd, etc for like 25 years so I could be glossing over minor details, but also my mid-70s mom also loves her linux laptop 1000x more than she was enjoying it as a windows one after I migrated it.