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@isaacgreene > students tell me it’s the first time they have heard either topic discussed in a course.
Very interesting – have you encountered a view that ‘how to learn’ should only be taught implicitly? I feel there are plenty of people who could benefit from explicit teaching on this.
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@iami.earth According to at least one German court, the Google AI’s patterns are owned not by ‘us’ but by Google: Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers | The Decoder
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@keanuheydari.bsky.social These days the curious make do with social media
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@writingslowly.bsky.social The patterns belong to Anthropic or OpenAI etc, not the software itself. I’m suspicious of attributing personality to AI because it may lead to offloading ethical decisions to AI, and to the owners avoiding responsibility. In this sense the question is ‘who is home’.
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@iami.earth Thanks for replying. I’m not sure about much but am pretty sure I already know no one is home. LLMs are excellent word and code prediction machines. As such they have barely more ‘personality’ than Eliza did. Jules Verne could have told us AI is not a real person.
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@grumpysmiffy thanks for your reply - it’s a good point that use of natural language makes the interface accessible. I still feel it’s dangerous. For example it might be easier to delegate ethical decisions to AI software if it’s portrayed as being a ‘person’.
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@no-wetware.bsky.social It’s obviously not the only available grammar. The pronoun doesn’t name a perspective or position because there isn’t one. There literally is no first person emanating from the AI. That’s what’s deceptive and it’s plainly working very well.
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@JohnPhilpin agree!
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@manton this updated Mac app for micro.blog is looking great. Thanks!
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@jakelazaroff.com I’m tech illiterate. Micro.blog already does it for me. Announced at www.manton.org/2026/05/30/s…
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@kroyxt.bsky.social Tio estas sufiĉe justa. Vi ankaŭ povas uzi viajn notlibrojn kiel fontomaterialon por Zettelkasten, same kiel vi citus iun ajn alian fonton.
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@joshuapsteele Change is difficult but staying the same has proved impossible.
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@Miraz how much mystery can one potting shed possibly hold? Looks like plenty! When I was ten a friend and I ran a ‘detective agency’ out of a potting shed, from where we advertised for mysteries to solve. I had completely forgotten until your post reminded me.
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@lightlogged a belated welcome to micro.blog !
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@austingmackell.bsky.social Wait. So now there’s a link between capitalism and fascism? 🤯
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@microadrian true! I’m also inspipred by Dan Harmon’s advice:
> ‘Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit.”’
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@isaacgreene It’s hard not to envy those yet to read certain great novels - the sheer wonder that awaits them. One Hunded Years of Solitude is near the top of that list. And I remember feeling similarly about Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War, which is less well-known by far.
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@tracydurnell thanks - he’s spending his last few days being pampered by our family
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@Miraz Thak you and yes, it is very real
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@cogdog it is a really interesting article isn’t it? Makes me imagine there’s probably a journal for absolutely everything!
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@cogdog it’s interesting how our memories of books sometimes connect to the places we read them. My main memory of ZAMM is constantly wondering “what kind of bike was he riding?” because he never said. The book felt different when I found out. Chrome and black and dusty
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@davoh Glad to see you’re still posting shelfies. I imagine Abie Warburg might approve. It was said of his library: ‘Warburg had chosen and arranged the books like stones from a mosaic of which he had the pattern in his mind.’
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@Mattiverse Welcome to micro.blog - looking forward to what you share.
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@joeywingster.bsky.social that’s wonderful. Motion sickness would prevent me from writing like that unfortunately
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@ausrtho Yes, but I’d probably find your location quite exotic, trains or no trains