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  • ChatGPT Made Me Superhuman

    ChatGPT Made Me Superhuman0

    I’ve never used ChatGPT. Nor have I used Claude, Grok, or Gemini. At least, I don’t think I have. Large language models, artificial intelligence, and technologies that use them are spreading so fast that it’s impossible for me to say with certainty that I’ve stayed away from them. But I’m doing my darnedest. The downsides

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  • ChatGPT Is the Serpent in the Garden of Eden

    ChatGPT Is the Serpent in the Garden of Eden0

    A 29-year-old mother committed suicide by walking into oncoming traffic after allegedly being encouraged to do so by ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Her family is suing the company, pointing to a dark relationship the troubled woman, Christian Faith Madison, developed with the AI robot. In Madison’s parasocial relationship, as with many others that

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  • ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn

    ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn4

    Will artificial intelligence become the greatest boon to higher education since online learning? (This assumes that online learning was a boon, which is a topic for another day.) Or will it mean the utter destruction of academia as we know it? Those are the two views I see expressed most often these days, with various individuals

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  • ChatGPT and the Undoing of Education

    ChatGPT and the Undoing of Education0

    It is official: ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. If you are unaware, ChatGPT is an AI-based language tool that acts as an interlocutor. It can ask and answer questions, and it can apparently even admit when it has made an error. Not bound by the slick walls of tech startups in Silicon Valley,

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  • Charting American Decline

    Charting American Decline0

    “After the quiet 1950s…incidents of political violence again became more frequent and now we may be in the middle of another wave of sociopolitical instability.” Thus five years ago wrote Peter Turchin, a University of Connecticut professor specializing in “historical social science,” a.k.a. Cliodynamics. After 2020’s violent nationwide political protests and the pandemic’s destruction of

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  • Charters Receive Far Less Money Than Traditional Public Schools. They Do Better Anyway

    Charters Receive Far Less Money Than Traditional Public Schools. They Do Better Anyway1

    If you thought charter schools received anywhere near the same amount of funding as traditional public schools, then think again. A new, massive study from the University of Arkansas finds that “On average, charter schools across 18 cities in 16 states (…) receive about 30 percent or $7,147 (2020 dollars) less funding per pupil than traditional

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