Personally I don’t have any beef at all. Most people I know in academia are great. I am concerned that academia has lost its credibility with much of the general public, and is unaware of what’s going on within
@plinz
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AI-Generated Story Universes: Beyond NeuralViz Channel
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Is the miraculous channel of @NeuralViz the only interesting story universe that is fully produced with AI tools? What am I missing?
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Scientific Culture: Earnestness, Conflict Avoidance, and Expert Credibility
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I have met scientists who are cynical, deeply unserious 'experts', or credentialed and award winning organizers of identitarian cults, yet most scientists (outside of a few broken fields) strike me as earnest and honest, but also conflict avoidant and blinkered by humility.
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Scientists Must Restore Academic Integrity and Combat Ideological Drift
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Why is there no loud and powerful movement of leading scientists to restore the integrity of scientific institutions? And equally concerning: why do principled scientific leaders don't use the changed political climate to eject the professional ideological grift from academia?
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Detecting Cognitive Biases in AI Reasoning and Logic
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You can notice if your preferences and identity mess with your logic by comparing your mode of thinking with reasoning about computer games or alien civilizations. Many brainworms will attack you when you think without identification; you may have to avoid their hosts
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San Francisco English Americans AI Model Preferences Analysis
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English Americans from SF are modeled as 28% Geminic, 61% ChatGPTic and 13% Claudic
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Yudkowsky’s Philosophy Claims: Solving Millennia-Old Problems?
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The funny thing is that everything Yudkowsky ever wrote about e.g. free will or metaethics was at roughly this level of understanding and yet he convinced a generation of software engineers that he had solved philosophical problems that had confounded humanity for millennia. x.com/MostlyMonkey/s…
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Statistical Bias and Normative Distortion in Model Interpretation
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In statistics, bias is deviation of a model from the structure indicated by the data. In political discussions, bias is generally not a lack of knowledge, but a distortion of a model by normative preferences (suppression of data, possibilities, interpretations one does not like)
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Ideological bubbles and cognitive bias in political thought systems
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Political opinions are not scales but systems, often warping the mind of their victims into tiny ideological bubbles that cut them off from most of the human thought space. Neutrality is the prerequisite to consider that space instead of being locked into your attractor.