Xander de los Reyes @xanderdlr

I'm skeptical that watermarks are free speech violations. If content isn't affected, it's unclear how this is different than policies that (A) affect text's format and (B) apply equally to all "speech." Does a style manual violate FS by requiring certain elements or formats?

Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne

5 days ago

Clearest free speech violation EU has imposed on American users: all American users of Anthropic's software will now, in every AI-generated post, be forced to carry a message that the content was generated by Anthropic.

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Judge-made law = rules from precedents I don't like Bedrock principles of jurisprudence = rules from precedents I like

A lot of despair in this good article. From many academic voices. "I believe that students need to practice putting their thoughts in an essay—they need the friction and difficulty of putting words together and learning how to think." Right, "friction" is a good term here.

The New Yorker @NewYorker

a week ago

As more and more students begin using A.I. to complete assignments, professors across the country are changing their approach—and losing their hope. “My emotional response to all this is hard to describe, something between disgust and despair,” a history professor writes. “Was it

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If you know what you want to say but you "just can't express it," then you do not in fact know what you want to say. The knowing is the saying. This is the most basic lesson of good writing, and it is why the act is so alternately frustrating and rewarding.

Josh Daws @JoshDaws

a week ago

Even proponents of AI are quick to say they don’t let the AI write actual text. Why? I see nothing wrong with a writer with something to say getting assistance crafting the language to express it.

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Fn. 51 is horrifying, but IMO worse is the actual text of this paragraph. It's dangerously unprofessional judicial writing (see article linked below). "[A]ny boomer watching cable news knows…"—why should an article III judge ever signal out a sector of his fellow citizens as ignorant.

Anna Bower @AnnaBower

a week ago

in the northern district of texas, they’re putting 4chan memes in judicial opinions now

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i'm sure the ability to fabricate convincing historical footage that eventually drifts across the internet, where it's picked up by people who present them as real, at a time when trust in educational and media institutions is already eroding, will prove to be a net positive

Justine Moore @venturetwins

3 weeks ago

Turns out that Flux 3 is exceptional at generating historical footage... like elementary school students in the '90s predicting how we'll use computers. (the last girl is my favorite!)

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@hecubian_devil I think the fundamental disconnect here is that you wants politics to solve man's search for meaning and I want politics to deliver a prosperous, safe, free society in which everyone can go find meaning in something other than politics.

No conservative could possibly have come up with a self-parody of the left this good. College Democrats invite an openly socialist China simp as a speaker, and he shows up in a commie suit. Incredible.

Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts

4 weeks ago

Dressed like Mao and talking about how much he hates the majority of Democrats as an invited guest of @CollegeDems. Our party having a normal one.

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Can't say how interested I am to listen to Chatrie. Brushing up on the briefs, some of Chatrie's points (pic 1) mirror points I made in my Princeton thesis (pics 2–3). Very curious to hear how property-based 4A approaches (or as I called it, "property analogization") fares.

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“One, if by land, and two, if by sea.”

Old North @OldNorth1723

4 months ago

On this night 251 years ago, two men climbed Old North Church's steeple. They held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were heading to Concord via the Charles River. Their famous “one if by land, two if by sea” warning ignited the American Revolution.

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Not sure how I missed this Trump insanity.

Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump

5 months ago

Trump: Our Country was unnecessarily RANSACKED by the United States Supreme Court, which has become little more than a weaponized and unjust Political Organization. The sad thing is, they will only get worse! They wouldn’t even call out The Rigged Presidential Election of 2020

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There's a toxic culture coming out of the AI industry that keeps trying to get us not to think. The message is everywhere. Don’t read the code, just vibe-code. Don’t try to understand all the text, just let AI summarize it. Don’t bother educating yourself, it’s too late. Don’t worry about the errors. Trust that everything will be fixed in the next version. The theme is the same. Don’t think too hard. Just keep swallowing the slop.

A very good decision. Students do not abandon their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate. Instead, disagreement is an opportunity for education, not a pretext for censorship -- even at a young age.

Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ @PacificLegal

5 months ago

BREAKING: A unanimous 9th Circuit just ruled that first graders have First Amendment rights at school. A 6-year-old was punished for giving a classmate a drawing about Martin Luther King Jr. The court said this violated the student's free speech rights.

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Teachers and parents: if you know anyone on a curriculum selection committee, please send them this tweet, ask them to choose book-and-paper oriented curricula. Thank you @karenvaites

Karen Vaites @karenvaites

5 months ago

Paging educators 🚩🚩🚩 This is the second time in 2 weeks that @JonHaidt has called to get Ed Tech out of classrooms by September: "I hope that many elementary schools will remove devices by Sept., or create an analog path for parents who want that. Let's see if kids do better

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I just gave a closed-book, pen-and-paper midterm exam in my 300-level course at UBC with 100 students. All exams were graded by an experienced graduate-level TA according to a rubric. *** The average was 64/100.*** My class averages at UBC are usually 80-85. Context: • This was the first midterm, covering ONLY 4 weeks of material. • Students had a list of possible questions in advance: no surprise questions. • Questions included (a) 3 concept definitions, (b) 3 paragraph-long questions, and (c) a 1.5-page essay. • I have taught this class multiple times. Nothing in my teaching style changed this semester. • We read entire paragraphs of text in class, so students don't have to do something on their own that wasn't covered during the lecture. • Students take a 10-question multiple-choice quiz at the end of every class (30% of the final grade). • Attendance is 95-99% every class. Attention during lectures and participation in pair-work activities are very high → anticipating the end-of-class quiz. *** But unfortunately, I suspect many students are not reading the material on the syllabus. They are asking LLMs to summarize it instead.*** After the midterm, students reported: • They thought they knew concept definitions but couldn't produce them on paper. • They thought they understood the arguments but struggled to connect them or identify points of agreement and disagreement. My view: It might be “cool” or “innovative” to teach students to summarize readings with ChatGPT or write essays with Claude. But we may be doing them a disservice: reducing their ability to retain material, think creatively, and reason from what they know. If you only read what AI has summarized for you, you don’t truly "know" the material. Moving forward: We have a second midterm coming up. I don't know how to convey to students that the best way to do better on the exam is to rely on and improve their own reading skills.

How I Write Clips @PerellClips

5 months ago

Ezra Klein: "Having AI summarize a book or paper for me is a disaster. It has no idea what I really wanted to know and wouldn't have made the connections I would've made. I'm interested in the thing I will see that other people wouldn't have seen, and I think AI typically sees

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Education is habituation/formation; you can't offload it. No one thinks AI can lift weights for you. Similarly, it cannot develop a mind for you. Sadly, we have an education system that has forgotten this, that has made itself transactional, narrowly focused on credentials.

How I Write Clips @PerellClips

5 months ago

Ezra Klein: "Having AI summarize a book or paper for me is a disaster. It has no idea what I really wanted to know and wouldn't have made the connections I would've made. I'm interested in the thing I will see that other people wouldn't have seen, and I think AI typically sees

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In my 3rd week at Princeton, I had a take-home, self-timed math quiz. I didn't finish & turned in a half-blank sheet, convinced that most others would cheat. When it was graded, the instructor apologized because almost nobody finished. That's when I knew I was at the right place!

Alex Kontorovich @AlexKontorovich

5 months ago

My personal evidence is the following. In high school, I saw plenty of cheating, never reported it. (Generally, cheaters are dumber than non-cheaters -- otherwise they wouldn't need to cheat -- and so are very easy to catch.) I saw no cheating at Princeton myself. As weak a

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I’m deeply uncomfortable with this. War is noisy, chaotic, messy, bloody, smelly and terrifying - after the event for me, rather than at the time. When you’ve had someone’s head splashed over you, smelled the stench of someone’s flesh burning, seen corpses ripped apart and scattered across the ground, a dead persons guts spilled across the road and covered with dirt and flies…then you may realise that it’s not like a computer game, Hollywood film, or about cheering on a football team. War is on another level. At the effects end it is serious beyond the comprehension of those who’ve not experienced it intimately. It scars you. When it comes to it, someone has to stand between those who would do harm and those to whom they would do it. But things that glorify war or portray it as a sport or game, as this video does, concern me.

The White House @WhiteHouse

5 months ago

JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸🔥

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y’all do so much work to avoid reading and writing

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD

5 months ago

A lot of academics still think AI apps generate fake references to papers that don't exist. They are living in 2023. You can easily integrate a database of 280M research papers with Claude and ChatGPT to get answers with references to published papers. Here's how to do it:

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