ProfPlate

Professor of creative writing, literature, composition, applied AI. Blogging about literary theory and cataloging critiques of AI.

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@yacineMTB This is simply false. The writer does not create the words. The writer is the conduit for words already created.

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@ratlpolicy Not harsh. Pretty basic.

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@Connorpoleary "can't read anymore" is false. Struggles to concentrate, sure. But let's be precise here. This isn't illiteracy. It's an attention and concentration issue.

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@MereSophistry These are not workable solutions. Blue books -- obviously not. And how will you make sure a student is "away from screens"? Surveillance outside the classroom? Just accept it -- students will use AI from now on. Teach with that reality in mind.

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@MattLutzPhi Blue books are a ludicrous solution. I teach college composition. Writing in a blue book is a completely different thing from writing outside of class -- they don't measure the same thing.

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@YanagizawaD Who cares. Don't use it out of the box.

[Merk @Makuh90]

Claude is down.

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@rahulkp220 @AnthropicAI Yep. Down for me.

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@rubanlah Yes. It's down for me.

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@DeepakNesss Yes. Down for me this morning. Yesterday had a problem too.

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@seanarchitects Same for me. It was down yesterday too.

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@JohnLawX Yup

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@Bangeek @claudeai Me too

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Is Claude broken?

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@rgblong Don't read and follow. Just go to Claude Code and use it. When you're not sure how to work with it, ask Claude.

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@jasonjnoel Yep. In the middle of a big project. Kicked out.

[Elan Barenholtz @ebarenholtz]

New video drop! 💡
Is language imposing the sharp lines of reality that the rest of our mind can’t see?

In this conversation with Addy Cha of @ekkolapto , we explore the question: do our brains fundamentally form categories—like “cat” or “sad”—or is categorization something superimposed by language?

Watch here : https://t.co/gai6bbEL4l

(Also: if you stick it out to the end, some hints of the deeper waters we are heading towards)

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@ebarenholtz @ekkolapto On "the dance of symbols" -- the phrase showed up in this conversation. This is Saussure. This is Derrida.

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Enjoyed this. Good to see this theory of language getting out there.

[Elan Barenholtz @ebarenholtz]

Video dropped! Nature’s Memory:  Language, Autoregression, and the Non-Markovian Structure of Natural Computation

With @DuganHammock and @_JamesWiles at the @WolframInst

https://t.co/kgQXgfwXgD

[Elan Barenholtz @ebarenholtz]

Video dropped! Nature’s Memory:  Language, Autoregression, and the Non-Markovian Structure of Natural Computation

With @DuganHammock and @_JamesWiles at the @WolframInst

https://t.co/kgQXgfwXgD