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What proportion of students are using AI illicitly? Roughly 6 out of 10 BU students, assuming this is a representative sample.
The survey was anonymous, but I triangulated by asking for their estimates about friends and BU students generally.
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I’m not an AI doomer, but someone should run a contest for the dumbest attempted refutation of AI doomerism. It’s a crowded field.
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I asked Chat if it was glazing me, but it said no and that I would never fall for that anyway
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Wow. Just read a story about a woman who denied her daughter the best education and vital cognitive enrichment. The daughter thinks she understands things but doesn’t. No one subjected her written work to scrutiny. Turns out this mom didn’t let her daughter do a philosophy PhD.
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This suggests 85% of students are using AI to do some of their coursework for them. (Y'all better hope this is just because the question was misleading.)
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~Today’s adults increasingly behave like the children they never have~ feels like a rude thing to say about people. And yet:
“Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales, growing 16% through June, equivalent to 55% of total toy industry receipts….
“Together, teens and adults generated nearly 60% of the industry’s incremental dollar gains”
It is so over.
Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales, growing 16% through June, according to a market research group. nbcnews.com/business/consume…
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These are my notes going into the first meeting of my dept's AI working group (in 30 min). We need to come up with advice for the profs in the dept. Anything I missed?
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My favourite left wing policy is "No law enforcement, just fix underlying problems" and then they don't fix the underlying problems
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Lfg
I think you've done enough calling us paranoid and preposterous. The next step is for you to defend your position in public against someone who will push back against it. I'm happy to meet you for a debate anywhere, anytime.
You're a world-famous veteran of dozens of debates against the world's top intellectuals, and I've never argued in public before, so adjusting for the relative correctness of our positions, if you're a betting man I'm happy to put my $5000 against your $1000 (ie 5:1 odds in your favor) that I'll win by some standard of audience opinion change. Let me know if you're interested and we can hash out details.
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It’s true that EAs were way ahead of the curve on AI risk and pandemic prevention.
And I’ll admit that factory farming and extreme poverty are moral catastrophes that deserve more attention.
But aside from their work on that stuff, what have they even contributed to the world?
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Why do people care so much about freedom? Just seize control of institutions and permit all and only what is permissible?
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The belief that inequalites in student performance in America stem from inequalities in school funding is false, quite trivially so, and you don’t really see serious people defending it anymore, but it nevetheless persists as an uncontested “ghost fact” among many liberals
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It would have been easy for NHJ not to write that desperately sad article about New York City public schools and her decision to send her daughter to a troubled one. I respect her for writing it and for writing it honestly and in a way that wasn’t an exercise in self-flattery.
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Academia is filled with people who constantly talk about how busy they are, but never seem to complete anything
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