dynamicManifold
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Every time Bari Weiss comes up I think of the time Jewish Currents got Judith Butler to review her book: jewishcurrents.org/bari-weisss-...
Bari Weiss’s Unasked Questions
In How to Fight Anti-Semitism , a facile approach to history justifies an impoverished ethical stance.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Every time Bari Weiss comes up I think of the time Jewish Currents got Judith Butler to review her book: jewishcurrents.org/bari-weisss-...
There’s this assumed objectivity of technology. We understand that humans have agency and so if someone starts buttering you up you can surmise they have an agenda.
But people assume all computers are as trustworthy as calculators, and so an LLM saying something reads as equivalently true as 2+2=4.
But people assume all computers are as trustworthy as calculators, and so an LLM saying something reads as equivalently true as 2+2=4.
September 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
There’s this assumed objectivity of technology. We understand that humans have agency and so if someone starts buttering you up you can surmise they have an agenda.
But people assume all computers are as trustworthy as calculators, and so an LLM saying something reads as equivalently true as 2+2=4.
But people assume all computers are as trustworthy as calculators, and so an LLM saying something reads as equivalently true as 2+2=4.
Reposted by dynamicManifold
To this day it still boggles my mind that there are people out there who will INSIST Evangelion, for example, makes zero sense because they focused entirely on background details and not the very simple things the show was actually saying with its characters.
August 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
To this day it still boggles my mind that there are people out there who will INSIST Evangelion, for example, makes zero sense because they focused entirely on background details and not the very simple things the show was actually saying with its characters.