Ursinus College (blameless). Author: Let's Be Reasonable (Feb. 2021). Work in WSJ, Bulwark, Commentary, Wash. Examiner, CHE, InsideHigherEd, McSweeney's
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Thread: 1. Today is publication day for my book, Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education (@PrincetonUPress). If youre interested in our colleges and universities, please give it a look. press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Rousseau erasure.
A faculty member shared this with me today: a preliminary list of 50 “foundational authors” for @UTAustin’s proposed Great Questions of Human Life core courses. At least two-thirds of each course would draw from the list. What do you make of this list?
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It's embarrassing. You don't need AI for this. I did something similar with several Mad Libs books, silk screening equipment, and a proprietary energy drink blend.
It's not just students using AI. A University of Chicago professor used AI to help produce over 200 papers so far this year, sparking concerns from other academics. wapo.st/4xCaFUf (gift link) @washingtonpost
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Jonathan Marks retweeted
People say that studying philosophy is useless, but that’s because they’ve never seen me DESTROY my two-year-old nephew in an argument about whether it’s bedtime now
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I just don't think that news that is absolutely vital to our nation, such as the lesbian bar meltdown story, belongs behind a paywall. @BostonGlobe do the right thing here.
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The anonymous complaints I've been getting from students, though thrown through my window attached to rocks in the usual manner, sound different this year. I ran several through Pangram and let's just say I'm disappointed in them.
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That they're speaking of a network and ecoystem and are backed by a venture capital firm whose name consists of letters and numbers suggests that this will be better than any university effort yet. This, plus celebrity teachers guarantees results.
powerful network and ecosystem behind a16z's new university effort
teaching staff and mentors include @sama, @JensenHuang, @naval, @miramurati, @travisk etc
founding and hiring partners include @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @Google, @Meta, @PalantirTech and more... all in downtown sf
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Wait till he finds out that I have "Super Intelligence" trademarked because it is the name of my bar trivia team.
Trump announcing at the United Nations that he is renaming Artificial Intelligence as "Super Intelligence - SI" because AI "sounds fake." He says it will be changed on all official US documents. "Let's see if I have any power," he says.
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IIt looked bad at the 9:35 mark of my political philosophy class this morning. But with 15 minutes left on the clock, I led an incredible come-from-behind discussion, even though Phelps was out with a cold. This is because I have what the Dean calls a "Dawg mentality."
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Mattox is usually reliable on freedom, but no, the desire to push punctuation outside of the quotation marks is a longing to return to British rule.
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First time the DC government has referred someone to a well-designed website
DC Gov is sending out mailers for Medicaid recipients that links to a porn site because someone forgot to renew a domain 🫠
A friend emailed OCTO, and I've looped in the relevant Council committees. Posting here cause I know sometimes they check my posts 😅
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We have a committee for this. We meet once per month. This is the sole item on our agenda. It’s a wicked problem. Our committee chair looks more crazed each time and sometimes arrives entangled in cables.
Crazy being back in the classroom after 8 years and the nobody's solved the problem of hooking a laptop up to the room AV.
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Does my capacity to overstate the results of psychological studies, repeat an anecdote, and sound smart and peppy but not dweeby or manic when I say, "But here's the thing!" make me a keynote speaker? Or do I have to have given keynote speeches?
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There are many songs about Saturday night. But none that I know of deals with the pleasure of completing the grading of a large batch of papers in time to go to bed at nine. Get to work, songwriters.
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There's a good documentary about this.
If you feel like you don’t have time for a robust social life, simply stop watching TV and suddenly you’ll have ample time for friends. Watching televisions is negatively correlated with every form of social contact: friendship, clubs, going to church, participation in anything
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