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What does it mean to be "intelligent"?
If “intelligence” is the thing that makes us most human, then the sociologist Harold Garfinkel can tell us a lot more about it than computer scientists…
Jun 30
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Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
We may be in for a new round of takes on how the internet affects the brain. But the brain is the wrong unit of analysis for ChatGPT or LLMs, just as it…
Jun 24
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April 2025
How do you solve a problem like ChatGPT?
LLMs have disrupted college teaching and not in a good way. But there is a solution, it just involves technology, enforcement, and sanctions--three…
Apr 30
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Why is there so much A.G.I. talk? And what can we do about it?
You can tell all kinds of stories about why A.G.I. talk exists but it is really built into the DNA of the computational work that goes into building AI…
Apr 16
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The Janine Chronicles, Cont'd
What is our ideal woke type actually thinking and doing?
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March 2025
How should AI be regulated?
There is no way to regulate "AI" because the term does not mean much. It would be better to regulate AI *applications* instead, and even better to start…
Mar 25
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A remembrance of Kevin Drum and his time-series charts
Kevin Drum's writing was crystal-clear, heterodox, very opinionated, and often illustrated with time-series charts. Here's how I learned to love those…
Mar 13
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The "A.G.I." category hinders rather than helps in thinking about technological change and human displacement.
"Programs building programs to build super-programs" is not how successful technologies get made and succeed. LLMs will be consequential but it will…
Mar 7
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The "A.G.I." category hinders rather than helps in thinking about technological change and human displacement.
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February 2025
Computer programming was never a women's occupation at its inception
Historical scholarship contributed a misperception that computer programmers in the 1950s were mostly women who were then replaced by men in the 1960s…
Feb 21
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Vaccine hesitancy and the problem of "science"
The concerns of vaccine hesitant people must be taken seriously. But the specter of "science" needs to be used consistently.
Feb 14
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
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December 2024
How do you solve a problem like Bluesky?
Third-party labeling of posts and posters can be used to trade off between speech and reach. But this model has run into problems on Bluesky. The…
Dec 20, 2024
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What's the matter with social media?
The problem with platforms is not that they are for-profit or because the beguile viewers with "algorithms." Scale, context collapse, and…
Dec 9, 2024
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