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[K @kvo33]

@jfrickuga It’s supposed to hit us around 8am on Friday. Any chance they cancel classes? (UGA students don’t come when it rains anyway, but I worry about any of us walking around campus with high winds!)

[Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1]

Excellent discussion by @annargrs on the possible meanings of "emergent properties" of large language models:

https://t.co/6P3IscW7Cg

[K @kvo33]

@_AdeleBuck I knew he was old, hadn’t done the math.
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[K @kvo33]

@_AdeleBuck Wait, SEVENTEEN YEARS ago?!?!!!
What a good boy!!!

[K @kvo33]

@_AdeleBuck Danger yam

[K @kvo33]

@_AdeleBuck Tangerine Palpatine

[K @kvo33]

@kkthomason That is so cool! They publish some great stuff.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

Longtermism was my religion after I gave up Christianity – it checked all the same boxes. Now it’s clear to me that longtermism offers a deeply impoverished view of our future, writes @xriskology. https://t.co/IrlBA7KjcB

[Roman Krznaric @romankrznaric]

https://t.co/z2GSU6DR1Z Good critique of the dangerous ideology of "longtermism", which downplays climate risk and up-plays techno-utopian space colonisation powered by endless growth (and, incidentally, is linked to crypto currency fraud). @xriskology

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Thank you to @getAbstract for this opportunity to do a long-form interview and try to cut through the hype about large language models:

https://t.co/jcU1IlFgCz

[Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) @xriskology]

An explanation of this can be found here, or in my book!

https://t.co/wG1WcXoB4r

[K @kvo33]

@amandapagemedia I love you, but I think this is a terrible essay.

I think she’s projecting her feelings on travel & her judgement of others onto all travel. I kept wanting to comment on it, “but that doesn’t follow from your example!”

[The Emancipator @the_emancipator]

Take. 👏🏽 Imagination. 👏🏽 Seriously. 👏🏽

Sociologist and professor Ruha Benjamin shared a powerful message with the graduating class of University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

[K @kvo33]

@ToddZakrajsek I was so sorry to miss your visit to UGA!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Think of people around the world tonight who need Twitter to get their voices heard, to document human rights abuses and injustices, to get attention, expose war crimes, and more.

All of them could be about to be cut off because the world’s richest man wanted to own the libs.

[Nicole C Rust, PhD @NicoleCRust]

I've spent the past year on a passion project, asking: When it comes to understanding the brain, what are we trying to achieve? What have we learned? What challenges do we face? And what's our plan? As I pull it all together into a book, I want to champion these 11 references:

[Aimee Reid @aimeereidbooks]

@GGLeeRose @mchlshepherd As I see it, people aren’t suffering from too much genuine appreciation. I say scatter kindness wantonly.

[The AAPT @TheAAPT]

“In our educational culture, the demands of fairness are often presented as paramount. But we actually have a choice—between policing our students, and teaching them.”

[K @kvo33]

@_AdeleBuck Wait. Did he not know who she is, or have some other idea?