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Chris Manion (he/him)

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Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at The (I know I know) Ohio State University. Jazz dad. Don't use DMs here for reasons.

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Chris Manion (he/him)

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I agree with everything Geoff says here. Happy to talk about this as part of our WAC/WA collaborations.

December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM

Chris Manion (he/him)

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Remember when there was an open bar at Kzoo? You're not kidding!

December 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM

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Hagen Blix

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I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this

An
LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of
the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing
more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result
is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our
time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex
mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow
often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate
in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age.
An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power
of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is
that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may
no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule
us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of
a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think
otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to
affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay
liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if
not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of
course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible.
But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already
marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual
patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence”
in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can
pretend to be a person.

November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM

Chris Manion (he/him)

@jazzmanion12.bsky.social

My favorite line a professor here gave me in graduate school was that "Columbus is a nice place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there." It probably less true now, but...

November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM