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My dream as a writer is that in 150 years, some kid cheating in a creative writing class will ask an LLM to mimic my style, and there will be enough of my stuff still online for the LLM to steal.

Our latest survey of family life, with The Harris Poll: Kids would much rather spend time with friends in unstructured play, rather than seeing friends online or in adult-supervised activity. To get kids off phones, we need to give them back the real world theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

How come you never see baby squirrels? What else are They lying about?

If you're a professor or teacher, give this a watch while you're preparing your syllabi for the fall. I will be going back to the blue book this year.

I comprehend it. I don't like it.

I'm proud of this tweet

I want to open an Italian restaurant called Pastability

Putting the "gaol" in algorithm.

There is no teleology here. There is false theology though. These people have FUNDAMENTALLY different world view.

I said this on FOX News Radio, but in the context of education, AI is a solution in search of a problem. What ails education is not a lack of information or better data. It's a lack of what Nicholas Carr calls "deep learning."

"I am an unhappy person who...has been nailed fast to one or another suffering, the deeper reason for which must be an imbalance between my mind & my body. I asked my doctor if he thought this imbalance...could be overcome in order to 'realize the universal.' He doubted it." --SK

One of the fallacies implicit in the AI discourse is that these technologies save time. Time cannot be saved. Time, unfortunately, passes regardless of what we do. AI reallocates our time. The question is what are we reallocating it to?

Have long thought writing the kind of books I like to read was nuts. Publishing them, nuttier. This conversation sheds light on who would do either and why—and provides hints on how it just might work.

I'm reading Huxley's novel "Island," and a character is talking about how one's theology, God as imminent vs. transcendent, depends largely on whether one was spanked as a child. It is both hilarious and brilliant!

Now listening...

And none of the tech bros w/ kids send them to "smart" schools. Reminds me of movies where the drug dealer makes the undercover cop do a line so he knows he can trust him. Let's make the tech bros snort their own product!

The vital battle of this generation will be to hold Real Life against its multiplying and vicious simulacrums.

Let's normalize AI shaming