mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Scientist. Weirdly set at the intersection of economics, material science, engineering.
Fighting climate change.
What's the place of AI in teaching?
Nowhere.
But why? Are we sure? Surely dictionaries, encyclopedias, search engines have a place, so why not?
We are certain, because the process of learning involves doing, fully, without help, as proof of mastery to oneself, and to others. And then doing it again better, faster, and again.
A reference used in this process needs to be reliable as its first quality, didactic second.
Stuff I hadn't realised: Russia and North Korea are land neighbours.
Russia is a large country...
Keir Starmer to bring forward EU rules legislation in King’s Speech - https://www.ft.com/content/b0316ac9-e013-41f8-985d-5394284ff397
Oh? Good? and it seems they finally clocked Brexit fights are bad for brexiters?
Will AI change the Labour/Capital equilibrium? i.e., can you buy AI to lower your labour input?
No. Because bottleneck tasks are almost never lines of code, text, or draft images.
If AI doesn't improve the bottlenecks in production, it doesn't improve productivity. Rather, it demands more labour to unclog the pipeline.
(or rather would if it worked...)
UK in talks with Anthropic over Mythos access for banks - https://www.ft.com/content/fe563a8e-e269-4a6b-a577-8ed16a805a7b
We really are ruled by cretins.
There are regular dramas here which boil down to people not wanting social media but private fora. Which exist. Which they could use. But somehow don't, and moan about being on a social media site.
My writings here (and yours) are public for all to read. And *should* be searchable, and *will* be LLMed. I don't like LLMs, but if random strangers can read your stuff, they'll do whatever with it.
(really, LLMs are here an issue because of redistribution and deforming what you say)