Marente Benink

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[Paul Kirschner @New_Old_Paul]

Why Writing by Hand Beats Typing (in 6 Charts)
Amazing! @edutopia got it just about right!
https://t.co/4eJKKEjh0p

[Pedro De Bruyckere @thebandb]

Wat motiveert leerlingen echt?
Nieuwe studie bij meer dan 800 leerlingen suggereert dat duidelijke instructie, heldere verwachtingen en feedback sterker samenhangen met motivatie dan autonomieondersteuning.
https://t.co/oFvC5G29rP

[Marente Benink @MBenink]

Cool

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Also the Pope is talking about Epistemia. AI can “weaken personal judgment.”

This is exactly the point we make in our paper on the epistemological fault lines between human and artificial intelligence.

LLMs and humans do not merely differ in performance.

They differ in their epistemic pipelines.

We identify seven fault lines:

Grounding.
Parsing.
Experience.
Motivation.
Causality.
Metacognition.
Value.

At each step, human intelligence and artificial intelligence process the world in structurally different ways.

And yet, LLM outputs are so fluent and confident that we often treat them as true.

This is how we enter Epistemia: a regime in which epistemic verification is replaced by linguistic plausibility.

A world full of knowledge that we are not able to judge.

A world in which we will be totally lost.

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Full paper in the first reply.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Massive bombshell. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah warns that AI will displace human labor on a catastrophic global scale. He confirms tech elites have absolutely no mechanism to share the wealth, leaving the global poor completely abandoned to suffer. He is 100% accurate.

[0xMeaw @0xMeaw]

@elonmusk @JeffBezos Two billionaires sitting in a room agreeing that hoarding wealth is actually a charity service to society. The level of delusion here is actually impressive.
Someone throw them an Oscar performance. 🤡

[Marente Benink @MBenink]

@Thijsvrk Geen idee. Kan hem ook niet vinden.

[Marente Benink @MBenink]

@Thijsvrk @Onderwijsbanaan @CasperHuls @tonvanhaperen @NOS Ik neem aan dat alle leidinggevenden ook geen bureaus meer hebben, zodat ze zich tussen hun personeel en leerlingen blijven bewegen?

[GertVerbrugghen @VerbrugghenGert]

Verzonnen door mensen die wellicht nog nooit zelf voor een klas hebben gestaan...anders verzin je dit niet. Dit is belachelijk, onmogelijk en gaat ten koste van leerlingen en leraren. Ga het lekker zelf doen dan, ik ga niet werken in zo'n setting.

[Marente Benink @MBenink]

@lbueters @tonvanhaperen Dat moest mijn dochter ook. Wat een ellende, dat Snappet.

[tonvanhaperen @tonvanhaperen]

Ja joh, schools leren van een laptop. Wie daar nog in gelooft, is knettergek.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

A brain expert just said what no one wants to hear about screen learning.🤯

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

As my wife points out, in this cesspit of male egos, there is one person who has been sent to prison

A woman

[Lisa Westerveld 🟥 @Lisawesterveld]

24 weken wachten voor traumabehandeling. 22 weken bij een eetstoornis. Vaak na jaren van doorverwijzingen en afgewezen worden.

In die tijd staat het leven stil. Zitten families in angst.

Terwijl goede hulp levens redt. ❤️‍🩹

[Marente Benink @MBenink]

@DieTukkerfries Ik moet er niet aan denken. We gaan ten onder aan gemakszucht.

[Jimmy Dijk @jimmydijk]

Vijlbrief verkoopt lariekoek

Minister Vijlbrief wil 6 miljard bezuinigen op de AOW, WIA en WW. Gewone mensen betalen de prijs.

Vijlbrief maakt mensen bang door te stellen dat de kosten voor sociale zekerheid onhoudbaar zijn. Terwijl deze jarenlang gelijk zijn en blijven.

Wat vindt jij van de plannen van het kabinet? 👉 https://t.co/YoJJSbZhFg