Ed Podesta

@edpodesta.bsky.social

#PGR at University of Leeds, researching English Teachers’ curricular autonomy. Education academic and consultant, crap saxophonist, deficient in the attention dept. I'll follow if you've got a bio or real-world descriptor. Not here for Edu-Culture Wars.

Your occasional reminder that performative sneering at whole genres of fiction is not a sign of intelligence, nor is performative misery a sign of superior talent. Read what brings you joy. No-one else gets to decide or to control what that means to you.

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Human Intelligence

In Human Intelligence, Naomi Alderman dissects the minds of brilliant thinkers from the past; examining the myriad ways in which humans think and realising that great minds don't, in fact, think alike...

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If we were doing risk management on AI, one of the lines would be about misalignment (ie AI doesn't do what we think it's meant to) with catastrophic results This *might* have a low probability but it would certainly have a high impact, and you'd expect maybe this would make us slow down and think

let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.

And now time for that uniquely British summer tradition: where we castigate ourselves, our education system and most of all our young people for going on to be better educated than ever before.

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Like they're all hotbeds of theoretical chatter. Guys! It's all meetings! And emails! All the time! Everyone's too busy desperately baling out the water as every single institution threatens to go down with all hands. All the talk is narrow mutiny, not wide revolution. (3/?)