and we block trolls around here

How has nobody mentioned eugenics yet?

I'm really sorry. I don't know what useful thing I could say, but we are thinking of you both.

I'd love to find a basic intro to communication theory, since people can't accept that meaning is made in our heads and isn't an innate property of sounds or lines on paper. Emily M. Bender has a talk that covers this, "Meaning making with artificial interlocutors and risks of language technology."

I know you mentioned Joseph Weizenbaum in class, but some of the stuff in his Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, specifically the parts about how people reacted to ELIZA, reads like it was just written.

So before crashing into discussions about, say, art like an intoxicated, unwashed Kool-Aid man and drunkenly explaining a way to “solve” the problem that definitely won’t work, maybe listen to/read work by artists. Mathematicians and economists have that angle covered. They don't need help.

I think the big idea that students need, and that they aren't getting based on AI/ML papers I've read recently, is that maybe people in other fields know stuff too. Given what I saw when I was teaching, CS, I'm not sure what readings will convince students of that. Or faculty, in some cases.

No, Chewie, servings per package is basically the same information!