Kicking off Day 2 with the BILETA-EJLT prize presentations. Many more updates on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/bile...
‘Why did the USSR, with its fantastic scientists and engineers and heavy investment in STEM, nevertheless stagnate?’
Excoriating from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social on the undervaluing of social science and humanities research
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted:
www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just trying to get some help with a lawnmower accessory and honestly. 'Are you an agent? Login here'... uh. (Also I failed 'I'm not a robot' more than once.)
The newest (and effective) rage bait
My new article, 'User Perspectives on T&Cs in Virtual Worlds' is published! www.elgaronline.com/view/journal... A sociolegal empirical work examining users’ understanding, motivation, and compliance with T&Cs in a persistent online community. More over at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures.
It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514
New issue marks 100 years since first publication of Kafka's brilliant unfinished novel 'The Castle': guest editorial (Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko) and all research articles, essays, arts and book reviews now available on the website: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A short piece of mine for @wipo.int - Street Art, Graffiti and Intellectual Property: Who Owns Art on the Walls? www.wipo.int/en/web/econo... #streetart #grafitti #copyright
* A chatbot can't do your job, but an AI salesman can *absolutely* convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that *can't* do your job:
pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a...
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