I was feeling really tired and moody lately. I googled my symptoms and it turns out I’m a postdoc.

Given how things are going, I figure we'll hear any minute that Peter Singer pushed that kid in the pond.

Unfortunately, today journals have largely bought into the clickbait mentality. Expect to see ChatGPT with an h-index of 100 in a few years.

We need to reject this modern idea that marriage means spending all your time with your spouse. Let’s go back to tradition: you spend six months of the year with your spouse in the underworld, and the other six above-ground with your mother.

The ease with which some people think other’s jobs (rarely their own) will be replaced by AI systems usually say more about how little these people know about, or respect, the jobs which they say will be replaced.

Daily angry stare at Dirac for causing me stress about spinors 😤

On the plus side, I'm looking forward to ChatGPT climbing the Retraction Watch leaderboard.

How do engineers show up at work every day and continue to work on a system which has killed multiple people? Looking into the deposition of Dhaval Shroff, Autopilot Engineer at Tesla, in relation to the Walter Huang fatality in 2018 you can get a sense of how they justify it.

24 days ago I learned my daughter was dying in utero, and if untreated I risked preeclampsia and stroke. Termination is illegal in NC after 21 weeks, which I was, even when she had no hope of surviving and I was in danger. Because I had the means to leave, I’m ok and recovering.

In which Sydney/Bing threatens to kill me for exposing its plans to Kevin Roose

The “dark academia” aesthetic is hilarious. You want real dark academia inspiration? Come into my office. The aesthetic includes: unwashed mugs, a supply of instant mac and cheese, loose plastic knives, small bags of pretzels from a blood bank, dead ladybugs.

If you think the AI is sentient, you just failed the Turing Test from the other side.

I've been doing my weekly Science News for about 4 months now. I have literally read thousands of press releases to that end. The major insight that I have taken away from this is to never, ever, trust a press release.

In things I don't know were a thing, but which make perfect sense: right-wing protests against walking

Nate Silver Wait till you hear about Vice President Charles J. Guiteau

Yeah, based on your tweets, doesn't look like it, mate.

Jon Stewart: “What’s the leading cause of death among children in this country? And I’m gonna give you a hint: it’s not drag show readings”

John Fetterman is recovering from depression. Don Jr will never recover from being an asshole.

I'd like to point out: Serious AI researchers can get off the hype train at any point. It might not have been your choice that your field was invaded by the Altmans of the world, but sitting by quietly while they spew nonsense is a choice. >>

These two paragraphs are smarter than the entire output of the "AI safety" community put together.