The blue pill illusion is this romantic notion of the lone genius or the startup in a garage creating something utterly new from thin air. It’s the narrative of “I built this all myself, from scratch.” We hero-worship inventors and founders as if they pulled a completely novel
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Creative Workshop Explores Possible Futures Beyond Tech Fascism
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Tired of cleaning up after techno-fascist dumpster fires? So are we. Want to exercise your creative muscle and dream of a better technological future instead? So do we. So we created a creative workshop around our Possible Futures Series.
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Students Using AI to Cheat: Concerning Patterns Emerge
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Are students using AI to cheat? It’s hard to know whether any specific category is cheating or legitimate study, but we did notice some concerning patterns: students straightforwardly asking for answers, or asking Claude to rewrite an essay to avoid plagiarism detection.
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AI Use in Education: Cognitive Offloading and Learning Concerns
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Students mostly used AI to create and analyze, according to our analysis using Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational goals. Whether cheating or not, this raises important questions about how to stop students offloading important cognitive tasks to AI.
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Control and Freedom: Who Really Governs Our Society
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We are all being controlled by someone else and they talk about freedom, democracy and what not
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Business Responsibility: Time, Skill, and Resource Requirements
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Running a business takes time, acumen, and resources, in ways which e.g. owning a stock does not. People who are not prepared to spend time, acumen, and resources should probably not run businesses whose failure to deliver services would materially impact another family.
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AI Generated Content Demands Complete IP Law Adaptation
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Pretty soon we will have full length episodes of your favorite shows on demand about anything you like. IP Laws needs to completely adapt to this new realm.
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AI Tooling and the Evolution of Programming Skills
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I think you are misunderstanding what this tech demo actually is, but I will engage with what I think your gripe is — AI tooling trivializing the skillsets of programmers, artists, and designers. My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper
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Gene Editing Resurrects Extinct Dire Wolf Species
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Le loup géant (Dire Wolf) a disparu il y a 10.000 ans : il est représenté dans Game of Thrones…
— Docteur Laurent Alexandre (@dr_l_alexandre) 7 avril 2025
On vient d’en fabriquer grâce aux ciseaux à ADN CRISPR-Cas9
Vous êtes enthousiasmés ou affolés ?
Faut il faire pareil avec Neandertal ?
pic.twitter.com/w5rwdsIgwMLe loup géant (Dire Wolf) a disparu il y a 10.000 ans : il est représenté dans Game of Thrones… On vient d’en fabriquer grâce aux ciseaux à ADN CRISPR-Cas9 Vous êtes enthousiasmés ou affolés ? Faut il faire pareil avec Neandertal ?