Moshe Vardi

My mastodon account: @[email protected]

[Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @TobyWalsh]

Jagged Intelligence https://t.co/uuPSBgeer6

[keepitquarterly @keepitquarterly]

SEC chair Atkins: "Semiannual reporting will still protect investors." Narrator: "It wouldn't."

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Students without access to LLMs are 2 to 8 times more creative than students with access.

That is the finding of a new paper comparing 2,200 college admissions essays written by humans before ChatGPT with essays generated by GPT-4.

The key point is not individual creativity. GPT-4 can write well, sometimes better than individual students. The problem is collective creativity.

Each new human essay added new semantic territory. New ideas. New angles. New experiences. New combinations.

Each new GPT-4 essay added much less.

The authors call this the diversity growth rate: how much novelty each additional text contributes to the collective pool of ideas.

Humans kept expanding the pool. GPT-4 made the pool converge.

Even when the authors pushed GPT-4 to be more creative, changed parameters, or used chain-of-thought prompting, the homogenizing effect remained.

This is the real danger of AI in education.
Not that students will write worse.
That everyone will write the same.

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Full paper in the first reply

[Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @TobyWalsh]

Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors? by @samfbiddle https://t.co/i7rOZS4ihN

[Moshe Vardi @vardi]

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Strikes Down $100,000 Fee for Skilled Foreign Worker Visas https://t.co/bGVzXE9VHI

[keepitquarterly @keepitquarterly]

SEC Rule S7-2026-15 would let public companies stop filing quarterly reports and hide financials for six months. Your savings are in those stocks. Comment is open right now.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

When big changes happen in one country, there will be many theories. When big changes happen globally, there are fewer candidates. Two new studies on the global drop in birthrates point to the iPhone as a contributor. By @stavernise

https://t.co/ffaNDLr3mg

[Moshe Vardi @vardi]

https://t.co/eapyzumHlW

[CNN @CNN]

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour his message to the IRGC and Iran. https://t.co/V3msdvKCG1

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

Language is the opiate of the masses

[Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @TobyWalsh]

Is AI breaking the career ladder?Back ButtonFilter Button. As AI reshapes the workplace, cutting entry-level jobs today could create a skills shortage tomorrow. https://t.co/MaYtwmlsrp

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The next frontier for prevention of heart and vascular disease isn't targeting lipids. It's about blocking inflammation. These are some of the ongoing clinical trials @NatureMedicine
https://t.co/DSLMoPFqs7

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

An easy way to get unstuck is to get up and take a walk.

We generate more creative ideas during and after walking outdoors—and even on a treadmill facing a blank wall.

Divergent thinking rarely happens when we're tethered to a desk. Moving our bodies frees our minds.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper @AC360

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

There is now a solid body of evidence showing that internet availability is causing a variety of outcomes that adversely affect democracy

The answer may have something to do with platform algorithms, such as curated newsfeeds (e.g., on Facebook) or ranking of posts (e.g., the “for you” feed on X).

Algorithms have long been in the sights of researchers and regulators as potential culprits of polarization because of their opacity and their known focus on maximizing user engagement and platform dwell time with little regard for the quality of curated content. https://t.co/IInHHOwBwI

[WIRED @WIRED]

Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability. https://t.co/LoE9noPc2s

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

One of the report’s commissioners is Vanderbilt chancellor Daniel Diermeier, whom we were lucky to interview @CityJournal several months ago

Even at that time, he was willing to confront the problem of politicized research & academic departments—a problem admins rarely acknowledge

Glad to see this report elaborating on these issues

https://t.co/DKbe5u8agw

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

People don’t realize that the entire history of Israel was subjected to a hostile, coordinated, well-funded rewrite on Wikipedia. History is being rewritten to support the disinformation war that supported the Iranian Axis’ kinetic objectives.

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

Sam Harris: Why I Won’t Debate Critics of Israel https://t.co/PrOVfyx515

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

Readers often ask: "Is Rung-3 of the Ladder really needed for practical decision making?". Here is a very practical application -- the crashing of self-driving cars -- that hinges entirely on Rung-3 analysis:
https://t.co/hjdkKdJIUK @vardi @eliasbareinboim @smueller @analisereal @DrBobGoldberg