Sam Mace

Making my way in the world of ideas. dcfc fan

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

https://t.co/ihuilaWMWc My monograph is out in July. If you do not have £109.99 to spend on it, please do get in touch and I'll be happy to send pdf proofs asap!

[Will Metcalfe @thewillmetcalfe]

I'm not sure she's thought this one through...

[Jonathan Shainin @jonathanshainin]

From Pankaj Mishra’s introduction to a previously unpublished 1949 essay by Thomas Mann – a sort of mission statement for @equatormag:
“the dignity and autonomy of the life of the mind must be resourcefully defended when societies are overrun by corrupt and philistine forces”

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@shadihamid @matthewkaemingk Great stuff shadi

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.

My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.

Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.

Hedgie🤗

[Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi]

I wonder if employment incentives ever led to a rush of low-quality work in other areas of philosophy.

[Jason Blakely @jasonwblakely]

This little intellectual revenge fantasy is a product of what Dosteovsky calls "underground syndrome" where someone waits in the shadows, fearing and loathing, and then suffers the illusion that by a single act they can invalidate an entire person's thought—let alone their life!

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

If you know how much Chicago (or any other university) is paying to give everyone on campus Claude Enterprise, my DMs are open. I am curious how this expense compares to the apparently “too expensive” humanities PhD programs Chicago has cut. I bet the answer is illuminating!

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@sckimbriel Having briefly worked in an AI role, not a good one imo

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

Just reupping this in case you didn't see it Thomas :)

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@ThomasDHowes Hye Thomas. I saw you sent me a DM. I don't have access to my dn's right now as I am on my honeymoon without a laptop to open them. Could you send me an email at [email protected]

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@sckimbriel @deanwball I think with both it gets at the question of do we merely need the purchasing power to consume or do we as people need to live different forms of life. Redistribution may be seen as necessary but insufficient to this problem I guess

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@ThomasDHowes Hye Thomas. I saw you sent me a DM. I don't have access to my dn's right now as I am on my honeymoon without a laptop to open them. Could you send me an email at [email protected]

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@ThomasDHowes Heh Thomas, I review books on my substack called theory matters and sometimes in magazines, such as liberal currents. Would I be able to get a review copy?

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@sckimbriel Wish I could be there to see this :)

[Philip Bunn @PhilipDBunn]

That an "AI researcher" misunderstands the point this badly suggests some fundamental flaw in thinking. He assumes any "why" question demands a careerist answer. I am asking about the telos of scholarship. If I were just career-driven I assure you my choices would be different!

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCL: The disgraced sexual predator Charlie Elphicke — ex-Tory MP who unsuccessfully sued the Sunday Times before, during and after his time in prison — has declared himself bankrupt.

We are among his creditors: he owes us a six-figure sum for pursuing his libel claim. The action needlessly protracted the suffering of “Jane”, who accused him of raping her. He was represented by Carter Ruck, the law firm of choice for oligarchs and known for representing ultra wealthy claimants against journalists.

After we found him on the streets of west London last week, he acknowledged he’d made “mistakes”. However, he refused to comment when asked if he accepted he was guilty of the offences for which he was convicted and thrown in prison.

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

One of the things that doesn’t get said enough in the discussions about AI and universities, is how professors/instructors/TAs are being expected to clean up the giant mess that these AI companies have made.

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@im_PULSE @NicholasTyrone if you re-read my first and second tweets, you'll find that I was actually commenting on the political system to begin with

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@im_PULSE @NicholasTyrone You can't even get my points in the correct order. I'll leave it here.

[Sam Mace @thoughtgenerate]

@im_PULSE @NicholasTyrone I didn't say there was no moral difference, in fact I literally stated the opposite two tweets ago. If you can't be bothered to interact in good faith then please don't do so at all.