James Hrynyshyn
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James Hrynyshyn
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Humanist, skeptic, limitarian https://classm.earth
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Good name for a band.
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.
December 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Now show me the data for people that vote.
December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan.
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If you have to ask, you have your answer.
December 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Well, the great Michael Chabon recently devised "factito" to serve for the "cute little fact" meaning, and I think that if we really try, and really believe, and clap our hands, we can make it happen.

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December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Not sure Canadian a need to be paying attention to whatever advice Trump enablers like Thom Tillis has to offer.
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM