Ron Pat-El @RonJPatEl

@zoemariets @alextencate Dat is een bijzonder lasterlijke manier om “sorry, ik had het mis” te schrijven. Maar you do you, ik snap dat ik ook wel erg veel moeilijke woorden voor je heb gebruikt

@zoemariets @alextencate Zie artikel 10 van de VN: legal.un.org/repertory/art1… The General Assembly … may make recommendations to the Members of the United Nations or the SC or to both on any such questions or matters.”. alleen de veiligheidsraad kan bindende resoluties maken

@zoemariets @alextencate niet alle, maar zo te zien lijkt de werking van de VN niet iets te zijn wat je wilt begrijpen. Je wekt de indruk van iemand die alleen van internationaal recht is als je dat uitkomt, en kan het echte recht en hoe dat werkt jou niets schelen.

@zoemariets @alextencate je kunt niet lezen. Het is een aanbeveling, geen bindende wet, heeft "vreedzaam samenleven met het buurland" als randvoorwaarde, en is aléén gemaakt voor de Palestijnen en niemand anders, dus niet universeel

"If employees are given a free trip to Paris, they are happy. If you give them a free trip to Hawaii, they are happy. But if you offer them the choice between the two destinations, they are less happy, no matter what they choose." a.co/d/0e2JiUkU

🚨 New paper in @NatureComms: (annoyingly) using college students to study cross-cultural effects underestimates the size of cultural differences. More education predicts more Westernization. Income & status don't. w/ Cindel White. 1/

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Dan's argument is sharper than "use AI carefully." His real claim: students should only use AI for things they already know how to do *well*. Not brainstorm-with-AI-but-draft-yourself, which is basically what every district policy says. He argues that's the wrong line entirely. His point is that those policies borrow a workplace model — AI as associate, student as lead, product is the thing. But for students, the product isn't the point. The essay itself has no value; it exists so the student practices building an argument, integrating sources, thinking like a reader. Skip that mental work and the assignment is hollow, even if the output looks great. So his real test isn't "how much AI is too much" — it's "would doing this yourself teach you something." If yes, no AI. If you've already mastered it and repeating it teaches nothing, AI's fine — like a calculator once you know arithmetic. I like this argument a lot. And I noticed he never once says "offloading." That word already carries a verdict — like something was shirked. Dan just asks whether a step was a *learning* step or a merely *supportive* one. That's why it matters to me. Most discourse treats any AI use as offloading — a small moral failure — instead of asking Dan's actual question, which is whether that specific step is where the learning happens. His framing lets the answer be boring and mixed: fine here, real cost there. dtwuva.substack.com/p/students-sho…

Behold, the Flynn effect! Curiously, we don't see the FE on any tests that people don't train on via cultural osmosis, so reaction times and simple working memory assessments are unfazed. This fits with the fact that the FE isn't a 'real' change in intelligence.

CognitiveMetrics @CognitiveMetric

2 weeks ago

The Flynn effect is absent on Digit Span. Working memory capacity has not increased from 1923 to 2008, despite increased exposure to digit-based tasks in the past century. The Flynn effect is remarkably test-specific.

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New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/which-…

This paper gives a fancy name to a problem you can already feel in your bones "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons." Checking AI output requires deep expertise. Deep expertise comes from doing grunt work for years. And grunt work is the first thing AI eats So we're building systems that need expert supervision while dismantling the only known process for making experts The paper calls the shared pool of human expertise the "cognitive commons." Every profession drinks from it. Nobody's refilling it. By eliminating junior roles, each company is acting totally rationally, and the collective result: a profession that can't catch AI's mistakes anymore because it never learned to do the work in the first place Who checks AI's homework in 15 years?

@yuanyi_z Arday committed the greatest sin he could commit: he made them look bad

@DanFriedman81 Secular academics: “The Bible? LOL. How can anyone believe such nonsense?” Same academics: “Wow, Arday couldn’t read, lost his memory twice, was an epileptic sports pro, ran 30 marathons in 35 days, came back from a coma, reads 1 page/hour and became the GOAT prof? INSPIRING!”

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this.

Stellar post by philosopher Daniel Muñoz, very probably the best I have seen by a liberal about the Arday affair. That is the primary reason I am sharing it. A secondary reason, however, is that even it refrains from drawing morals. Take: “This man is the apotheosis of what anti-DEI people have been alleging about higher ed for years. There is no better way to discredit DEI and validate those critics than to stand by a lying, self-mythologizing, low-output, overhyped thief.” This is oddly written in a modally distanced mood. More to the purpose: “This man is the apotheosis of what anti-DEI people have been alleging for years. That distinguished academics have stood by a lying, self-mythologizing, low-output, overhyped thief yet further discredits DEI and vindicates those critics.”

@gewooneenvrouw “Per ongeluk”. Valt de organisatie onder WOO?

@JaapStalenburg Jaap, 'reflex' vind ik passender wanneer zonder enig bewijs een gevolgtrekking gemaakt wordt "iets slechts gebeurt" > "Israel". Terwijl ditzelfde in 2021 ook al gebeurd was, zonder trump of netanyahu als verklaring

"Die Juden sind unser Unglück" is weer uit de mottenballen gehaald zie ik.

Jaap Stalenburg @JaapStalenburg

a month ago

Zou dit ook een door Trump aangejaagde aanval op premier Pedro Sanchez kunnen zijn met als bijvangst onrust in Europa? Israël, Amerika en Marokko weten elkaar doorgaans goed te vinden. Ik denk maar hardop.

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I guess we're seeing a rehash of the Western Sahara invasion with fighting age men en masse overwhelming Spanish territory. The question is whether its delayed punishment for sheltering Brahim Ghali, or a more recent one for Spain's rapprochement with Polisario-supporter Algeria

@MinPres oh, u bestaat nog! G'd zij geprezen. Kunnen we dan ook nog een reactie verwachten op de onacceptabele opruiende uitspraken van de Minister van Staat?

Dit is wat institutioneel racisme is; gemeenteambtenaren die openlijk juichen om verkrachtings- en martelmisdaden en dit zich verkneukelend een burger toeroepen. En een burgemeester die het allemaal maar best lijkt te vinden. Dit land is al heel lang stuk.

Ricardo @Dutchfan33

a month ago

Deze gemeenteambtenaar schreeuwde “lange leve 7 Oktober” naar een Joodse dame in Utrecht. Zit ze al vast? Is ze ontslagen? Of is ze een vriendin van Sharon Dijksma,die er precies zo over denkt?

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