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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

Wholesale breach of fiduciary responsibilities.

mattsteg.bsky.social @mattsteg.bsky.social · 15h

a group of men are sitting on a plane screaming .

ALT: a group of men are sitting on a plane screaming .

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

In parallel to that a *lot* of education is going to need to be reinvented.

Not in the manner that AI edtech bros are shilling for...but with an intentional restructuring away from the sort of thing that LLMs easily fake. Even this will likely leave us worse than we were.

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

Even this skeet might overrate LLMs - there's literature pointing to significant fallacious output even using models trained on very high-quality data. Even restricting to reputable input is no guarantee of reliable output.

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

I don't know that I quite agree. The data has obviously changed quite a bit regardless of how you plot it.

Also, maybe more important than the number of shots for "variety" are the local maxima in older shot maps reflecting *seeking* those shots (even if they were not great choices).

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

I wouldn't say a lower-density of shots in the midrange is "artificial". The game is played on a 2-D court. If there is a lower density in 2D I wouldn't call that artificial.

It's also not necessarily bad - if there weren't more valuable shots to prioritize defending that'd be kinda boring too.

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

When did competitive professional teams *not* play to win the game?

There has always been "ugly" and unfun stuff within the rules as-enforced with the rules adjusted in respose

That's why we have things in hoops like the shot clock, a lane that isn't 6 ft wide, goaltending rules, etc.

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

The headline being below the fold on B1 and the only sizeable crowd pic buried largely kills that take for me, as does the predictability of the event.

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

Isn't this * 226.5% * of revenue?

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

Whatever happened to our big beautiful beef?

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

Also, evidence that you can slow down AND rock out all at once.

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

But not always.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyp...

Rage Against The Machine - The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by RATMVEVO

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

IMPERIAL GAVAGE!

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

Why would anyone want this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives.

During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge.

"The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."

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

I take it it's not a yellow tomato?

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

I'd also argue pretty strongly against lumping all self-professed non-Catholic "Christians" into a single box.
www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/how-protes...

How Protestant Denominations Have Voted from 2008 to 2024

22 Protestant Denominations, 5 Elections, 1 Story

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

As a group they went for biden but not harris. They're pretty bifurcated and the new pope isn't exactly a JD Catholic.

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

I think a lot is grieving the trajectory of mass and social media platforms and feeling shared reality is gone.

There's not an easy counter to reach then at scale.

It's worthwhile, but also a heavy and uncomfortable lift. A lot of it is "risky" person to person conversation in an alienated world.

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

This is a great article that puts structure around why and how AI generated slop is slop.

This one in particular just grinds my gears - asking me to waste time reading *nothing* because you can't be bothered to communicate is a direct assault.

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

Realistically this variation extends down to department and individual faculty level. There might be top-down pressure from external funding and administrators who have drank the kool-aid, but it takes a certain type (concentated in but not exclusive to paticular colleges...) to go full unhinged.

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

a man with long hair and a beard is standing in front of the word dis

ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is standing in front of the word dis

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

The perfect AI booster.

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

Juan Berenguer.