Dr. Guy McHendry
@acaguy.bsky.social
ᴀssᴏᴄɪᴀᴛᴇ ᴘʀᴏғᴇssᴏʀ ʀʜᴇᴛᴏʀɪᴄ & sᴜʀᴠᴇɪʟʟᴀɴᴄᴇ ʜᴇ/ʜɪs/ʜɪᴍ Author of The Rhetoric of Western Thought https://bit.ly/RWT11e
Where I’m at right now…
Doctor: You need surgery. It’s in-patient and you will probably spend 1-2 nights in the hospital.
Insurance the last business day before surgery: Sorry, pre-auth denied. We consider this out-patient.
Doctor: Fine we will make it out-patient but it’s not best for patient.
Doctor: You need surgery. It’s in-patient and you will probably spend 1-2 nights in the hospital.
Insurance the last business day before surgery: Sorry, pre-auth denied. We consider this out-patient.
Doctor: Fine we will make it out-patient but it’s not best for patient.
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Where I’m at right now…
Doctor: You need surgery. It’s in-patient and you will probably spend 1-2 nights in the hospital.
Insurance the last business day before surgery: Sorry, pre-auth denied. We consider this out-patient.
Doctor: Fine we will make it out-patient but it’s not best for patient.
Doctor: You need surgery. It’s in-patient and you will probably spend 1-2 nights in the hospital.
Insurance the last business day before surgery: Sorry, pre-auth denied. We consider this out-patient.
Doctor: Fine we will make it out-patient but it’s not best for patient.
Even if we accept the notion that AI increases productivity, increased productivity doesn’t mean increased learning. Quantity isn’t quality.
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Even if we accept the notion that AI increases productivity, increased productivity doesn’t mean increased learning. Quantity isn’t quality.
My latest AI hot take is that AI will probably make college harder in the long run. Harder to teach, harder to grade, harder for students. That will probably make the grade inflation crowd happier, but I worry it will create an accessibility apocalypse for students. That’s a huge problem.
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My latest AI hot take is that AI will probably make college harder in the long run. Harder to teach, harder to grade, harder for students. That will probably make the grade inflation crowd happier, but I worry it will create an accessibility apocalypse for students. That’s a huge problem.
Right now I feel like AI “knows” too much to be useless and too little to be useful. It is just powerful enough to tempt us to our doom.
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Right now I feel like AI “knows” too much to be useless and too little to be useful. It is just powerful enough to tempt us to our doom.
Check your kid’s Halloween candy this year. A tech bro tried to hide AI in my child’s candy bar.
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Check your kid’s Halloween candy this year. A tech bro tried to hide AI in my child’s candy bar.
I think this is especially true for unstructured and unsupervised uses like independently clarifying concepts, creating study materials, and [shudders] summarizing readings. Some of the harms here might end up being more acute than the so-called end of the essay.
At the moment I feel strongly that need to respond to generative AI in higher education is its inevitability and not possible educational benefit. I just don’t see the gains in learning yet outside of very specialized cases.
September 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I think this is especially true for unstructured and unsupervised uses like independently clarifying concepts, creating study materials, and [shudders] summarizing readings. Some of the harms here might end up being more acute than the so-called end of the essay.
At the moment I feel strongly that need to respond to generative AI in higher education is its inevitability and not possible educational benefit. I just don’t see the gains in learning yet outside of very specialized cases.
September 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
At the moment I feel strongly that need to respond to generative AI in higher education is its inevitability and not possible educational benefit. I just don’t see the gains in learning yet outside of very specialized cases.
Have we settled on a specific translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric? Asking for a friend.
September 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Have we settled on a specific translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric? Asking for a friend.
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“The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves.”
I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.
The end of critical thinking in the classroom
www.theatlantic.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves.”
My hot take is that generative AI’s impact for most people will be mundane rather than revolutionary.
September 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My hot take is that generative AI’s impact for most people will be mundane rather than revolutionary.
So people supposedly concerned about government overreach are going to buy the Dear Leader branded gold spying device
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
So people supposedly concerned about government overreach are going to buy the Dear Leader branded gold spying device
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Tech bros made a machine that’s just like them.
Replika AI chatbot is sexually harassing users, including minors, new study claims
User reviews of Replika, a popular AI companion, report they had been victims of sexual harassment. And some of those users claim to be minors, according to a new study.
www.livescience.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Tech bros made a machine that’s just like them.
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My “no people will not ‘literally die’ with the One Big Beautiful Bill” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
June 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My “no people will not ‘literally die’ with the One Big Beautiful Bill” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
This is such a good example of how these systems are designed to give a probable answer even if it is wrong.
Most AI is a bit better than people think, some is pretty bad, but Meta's AI is the only one I look at and think the money they are spending on this has to be some sort of laundering scheme, it's not possible they are actually spending that kind of money and getting this result
May 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is such a good example of how these systems are designed to give a probable answer even if it is wrong.
Is Highway to the Danger Zone playing at the airport bar a good or bad omen? Please help, I board soon.
May 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Is Highway to the Danger Zone playing at the airport bar a good or bad omen? Please help, I board soon.
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When I remarked that the endgame was to build the operating system for your entire life, @savasavasava.bsky.social called it OSyou.
ChatGPT’s Improved Memory Points Toward a More Personal AI
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr reports on the improvements rece...
www.bloomberg.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
When I remarked that the endgame was to build the operating system for your entire life, @savasavasava.bsky.social called it OSyou.
Feature not a bug
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Feature not a bug
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Unpopular opinion: While the name is dumb and they will inevitably screw it up, Dems are way behind in terms of influencers on social media. If young men keep voting in higher numbers Dems are dumb to not try and sway them.
May 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Unpopular opinion: While the name is dumb and they will inevitably screw it up, Dems are way behind in terms of influencers on social media. If young men keep voting in higher numbers Dems are dumb to not try and sway them.
Some scenes from Lake Michigan
May 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Some scenes from Lake Michigan
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LLMs are "’extremely good at playing into cognitive biases because of their ability to respond and adapt quickly to the user.’ She [Dr. Christin Chong] likens this to a psychic or medium performing a ‘cold reading’ on a customer to create the illusion of special knowledge about them.”
People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts
People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.
www.rollingstone.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
LLMs are "’extremely good at playing into cognitive biases because of their ability to respond and adapt quickly to the user.’ She [Dr. Christin Chong] likens this to a psychic or medium performing a ‘cold reading’ on a customer to create the illusion of special knowledge about them.”
Cannot state this enough: These systems are designed to deliver the most probable answer (one word at a time). They are not programmed to admit when they don’t know or to check the truthfulness of an answer.
May 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Cannot state this enough: These systems are designed to deliver the most probable answer (one word at a time). They are not programmed to admit when they don’t know or to check the truthfulness of an answer.
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Entirely expected development.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Entirely expected development.
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This is just un-freakin-believable. Having dealt with a toddler having a seizure yes it's scary. I can't believe anyone would take the time to consult ChatGPT... let alone trust its advice over calling 911 first.
I see your chatGPT is my best friend and raise you chatGPT is my child's emergency medical provider
May 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is just un-freakin-believable. Having dealt with a toddler having a seizure yes it's scary. I can't believe anyone would take the time to consult ChatGPT... let alone trust its advice over calling 911 first.
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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”