I can't remember if I said this before on here. This has links to all the posts I did over the summer about writing my book - writers block, intellectual loneliness and intellectual community, how I revised, etc.
https://t.co/Uhmhsr0bsl
@IsmailYSyed@Rituparna37@MushtaqBilalPhD one being a matter of leveling up, along the lines of 'people with ethical concerns about academic practices re: AI should broaden the scope of academic practices they are concerned with', the other leveling down, something like 'since many people were insufficiently cocnerned
@IsmailYSyed@Rituparna37@MushtaqBilalPhD Your basic point seems to be 'some academics are concerned about values re: AI that they are not otherwise concerned with' which is true (though I think you're overgeneralizing in the unqualifed use of 'academics'). But there are two directions in terms of what follows from this,
@peligrietzer I don't know how to say this without sounding pointed in a way I genuinely don't intend: in your view what relevant thing follows from this? I honestly can't tell.
@peligrietzer I'll also note that I think there's a cultural phenomenon present here where people at the top of the food chain are supposed to be in charge of when their position at the top does/doesn't matter, which is both undemocratic and absurd. A friend calls that 'selective collegiality'
@peligrietzer to tell him to go fuck himself, but that's a level of heatedness that isn't as enjoyable and which is imho unfairly looked down upon. In such circumstances, I reserve the right to go 'lol you've lived in the Ivies your whole life I don't buy it'.
As a neoliberal American it blows my mind that Canada has multiple public bodies dedicated to making evocative, mournful, sample-laden downtempo music often sounding as though produced on malfunctioning equipment excavated from the ruins of an early-'70s computer lab.
possibly the only fun part of writing a book: lo-fi promo shots with reluctant cats.
anyway here it is: FILMS THAT EXPLODE LIKE GRENADES: ROBERT KRAMER AND THE SEARCH FOR A RADICAL CINEMA (University of Chicago Press, 2026)
@IsmailYSyed@Rituparna37@MushtaqBilalPhD right in their anti-AI remarks and the proper response to them would not be 'you are unserious in your AI criticisms, stop making them' but rather 'good start, now extend that logic to pre-AI practices of the sort you have previously benefitted from.'
@IsmailYSyed@Rituparna37@MushtaqBilalPhD My impression is that a lot of the top-of-food-chain academics who have taken subordinates work and passed it off on their own in the way you indicated are relatively quiet about AI usage or embracing it. But even if one of them came out strong against AI it seems to me they'd be
@IsmailYSyed@Rituparna37@MushtaqBilalPhD No, this is promoting dishonesty: "The paper has a strong argument and even beats AI-detection app, Pangram. With a little editing, it can pass for 100% human, and can be easily submitted for peer review."
@floatovertrees generally when something is called downtempo I probly will like it but tbth that part of my tweet is just verbiage I plagiarized from the BoC wikipedia entry!
@floatovertrees yr welcome, happy to and sorry for my terrible sense of humor and the confusion generated as a result. I haven't updated it in a while but in case it's any interest I occasionally drop artists' bandcamp pages into this to help me keep track - https://t.co/smtIIiHJlW
@floatovertrees I am too but don't have anything interesting or well informed to say about it, I just periodically read around online and see what grabs me.