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David

@dchandler.bsky.social

Currently teaching, reading, and writing, in that order. I enjoy looking at old boats.

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Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 3d ago

Playing Titanfall 2 again and it just fills you with sadness, that specific strain of narrative first person shooter that Half-life wrought basically does not exist any more in that same way. We barely get a confusing single player campaign stapled to a multiplayer game any more.

David@dchandler.bsky.social · last wk.

When I worked in a small town computer store circa 2003, we called this stuff "malware," and most of our customers paid us to get it off their machines. They just remade BonzaiBuddy while telling us it's good now.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

“More than any other digital service, my email is a window into my brain. Now Meta has it. If that's not enough, Muse also suggested I give it my bank accounts. No thanks. I didn't let the AI run wild on my computer hard drive, either.”

David@dchandler.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the chair of the philosophy department working in cognitive science? God, the secondhand embarrassment I get from this tripe is going to suffocate me.

Rachel Vorona Cote@rvoronacote.bsky.social · last wk.

From the jump, this writer is shadowboxing. I don't think anyone who opposes the use of AI in writing-intense courses is arguing that writing is the ONLY way a person learns to think. But that does not diminish how critical it is to the development of one's point of view.

Opening of September 29 New York Times opinion piece by Joe Cruz entitled, "What If Writing Isn't Central to Thinking?" Most college professors I know believe that students learn to think — critically, creatively, reflectively, tenaciously — only by writing. At Williams College, where I am a professor, writing skills are among the very few general education requirements. It’s no surprise, then, that universities see artificial intelligence as an existential threat, and have launched an arms race of countermeasures: more proctored essay exams; test-taking rooms shielded from the internet; requirements that essays be composed on platforms that track all edits, so the word-for-word genealogy can be verified. I’ve heard professors rejoicing when they see typos or grammatical errors in an essay, as if they proved that a student wrote it without any help from A.I. But what if we are mistaken in treating writing as the highest cultivation of thought?
Eric Ravenscraft@lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think an aspect worth examining of all of this is how much gAI use highlights that people in positions of power are often not actually doing the work but getting someone else to do it and not looking too closely at the results And from that perspective, of course gAI looks like it's revolutionary

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2w ago

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...