Great piece. It may just be the algorithm but it does seem like there’s a recent vibe shift where a new group of people are having a “ohhh this is real” moment that others had a long time ago. Agentic LLMs workflows seem to have a lot to do with it. Others are reacting by digging into their denial.
What's so poignant about this heart-wrenching thread is that the students know AI can't be brushed off. This is a Copernican moment for human cognition and so many academics seem to be stuck on it-can't-even-spell-spell-strawberry level denial.
I used to explicitly teach exactly this at university of bath computer science in a course called “research project preparation” How to read science articles was in the same lecture as how to not plagiarise / how to cite; iirc
Good to have a reading for @hertieschool.bsky.social students, thx Pat
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan
At the #Neurips2025 mechanistic interpretability workshop I gave a brief talk about Venetian glassmaking, since I think we face a similar moment in AI research today.
Here is a blog post summarizing the talk:
davidbau.com/archives/202...
Gary Lupyan
We recently taught a methods course supported by Experimentology + various primary readings. Experimentology was a truly fantastic resource! psych-methods.netlify.app
The anti intellectualism of the AI discourse on bsky is an embarrassment
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
This is disastrous AND almost exactly one year ago, we warned it would happen: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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