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1. What’s the right analogy? Are students who use AI to write their essays like athletes using performance-enhancing drugs or are they like athletes using performance-enhancing gear?
2. Chaucer may not have been a rapist after all.
3. On Yuval Noah Harari: “The desire for a wise guide—a sort of prophet who boldly leaps across multiple disciplines to provide simple, readable, confident answers, tying it all together in page-turning stories—is understandable. But is it realistic?”
4. Public-facing AI censorship is “safety theatre”— or as Scott Alexander puts it: “Big AI companies have whole teams that spend months making sure their AI will refuse to draw boobs or swastikas. Then two weeks later some scrappy open-source team releases a copy that can draw as many swastika-covered boobs as you want. Given that all the ‘Trust And Safety’ stuff seems more about protecting AI companies’ reputations than really preventing boobs or swastikas from being drawn, what are we actually doing here?”
5. None of the countries that shared borders with Poland in 1989 are around in 2022.
