“Only 10% […] use it to generate their whole assignment” “But that number (students who admit to cheating) hasn’t really changed over the years, it’s just how they cheat” overcast.fm/+AAQLdu77JZA... Does anyone have baseline research on how students perceive the risk of honesty?

Rewind: How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education — Decoder with Nilay Patel

Hey, everyone, Nilay here. We’re off today, while the team and I are cooking on a lot of really great stuff in the coming weeks. We’ll be back with an all-new interview on Monday. In the meantime, we ...

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If you’re going to have an LLM write your blog post just have the decency to give it to us as a list of bullet points instead

AI Whispering could be the new version of 90s high schoolers writing websites for local businesses.

Gordon@gordon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interesting to imagine what can be done with agents at zero marginal cost. There’s plenty of room at the bottom.

Just FYI.

This is art

much like your posting@mlyp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Perfect

Independent and brave journalism, across the world and in any culture, is one of our strongest defenses against illiberalism. Opinion mills feed fascism and anarchy. Please, subscribe to outlets and journalists that truly do the job and report the facts.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

I first heard about the events from breaking news on AP’s own app, and can say I appreciated the care the AP journalists took to be specific but not speculative.

Melissa Chan@melissakchan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

Seven years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the world is being asked to forget what happens when governments decide reporters are disposable—and to turn away from what that precedent means for all of us.

A lot of great evidence out there for German regulators to use when arguing for modern and adaptive power infrastructure. Flexible tariffs and distributed local storage could be a boon for smoothing out delivery and improving use of renewables. I hope we can follow the UK and others’ examples ❤️

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 8mo ago

UK EV drivers save £540 more on running costs than those in Germany. Why? Combo of smart meters + flexible tariffs is now widespread in the UK but in its infancy in Germany.

Proud to see #Wisconsin in the top 10!

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Red Texas is a leader in renewable energy deployment. The state's solar surge proves that the energy transition defies politics.

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working. Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

Thanksgiving in America by Ron Cobb, 1967

Companies invest where they generate revenue. If the industry is mature and has low regulation, competitors are likely to be “pricing and packaging” focused. Sales-led companies generally prioritize marketing budgets over product—and security is usually low on the list to begin with.

Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · 10mo ago

Several things here, tbh, but to me the most salient point is the fact that a lot of hyper connected objects have had close to zero design thoughts invested in cybersecurity

I don’t feel like we’re ready for dynamic flocks of independent agentic neural networks with online learning. Personal devices will carry AI agents with OS-level access in the next few years. How do we respond when any entity could spontaneously become a malicious god-tier hacker? #aisafety

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling

People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...

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The California lawmaker is on his second attempt to pass a first-in-the-nation AI safety bill. This time, it might work.

Scott Wiener on his fight to make Big Tech disclose AI's dangers | TechCrunch

The California lawmaker is on his second attempt to pass a first-in-the-nation AI safety bill. This time, it might work.

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How AI safety took a backseat to military money

How AI safety took a backseat to military money

Heidy Khlaff discusses the industry shift toward military applications and what it means for AI safety.

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Science is so cool

Prof Sam Illingworth@samillingworth.com · 11mo ago

🧠 Tiny motors against Parkinson’s Scientists built 'nanomotors' that cross the brain barrier, seek out damaged proteins, and stop them clumping. This is a step toward new Parkinson’s treatments. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm #Parkinsons 🧪

The Albanian government announced expanding the use of an AI assistant system to control procurement, during a contentious session of parliament last week. Among other comments, the virtual assistant argued that it will be more moral and fair than humans. qz.com/ai-albania-c...

Large language models are powerful, but still not trustworthy enough to outsource critical tasks to them. What happens if it invents false facts? If a charge is challenged, can the officer (or defendant) blame the AI? 1/

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 11mo ago

Axon’s AI police report writing tool is designed to not keep a record of which parts of a final report were written by AI and which parts were written by the officer. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Lest we forget, these are still relatively fragile demonstrations of a powerful but still unpredictable new technology.

Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Did you know that LLMs fail at around 70% of all typical office tasks like generating a report on something from a spreadsheet? The Agent Company is a simulated office environment for benchmarking LLMs - I wrote a blog post about the paper here (with links and a rant): jilltxt.net/llms-fail-at...

More public data! Such a cool project

Simon Clark@simonoxfphys.com · last yr.

I've just been made aware of the MapYourGrid initiative to map electrical grids around the world, especially in the global south, to provide better data for energy planners. They have resources teaching you how to map the grid using JOSM and an active discord. Very cool! mapyourgrid.org

Just run across the site yesterday while looking at infrastructure options for a project that I’m working on. Really nice collection! I found some services that I otherwise don’t think I would’ve come across.

EuroAlternative@euroalternative.eu · last yr.

EuroAlternative is a curated collection of the best European alternatives to big tech companies. Keep your data in Europe, support local innovation, simplify business operations. Our directory connects you with EU-based digital service providers. → euroalternative.co

Renewables keep trucking along. You love to see it happen!

Just Kevin@kevinleecaster.bsky.social · last yr.

Here is an anti-doomism chart in terms of climate action. Sure, the fossil fools took power over the USA because too many leftists chose to not bother voting to keep the fascists out of power, but they're not going to be able to stop the energy transition nor the fact that EVs are better than ICEVs

www.wsj.com/business/ret... The only difference between mined diamonds and lab ground diamonds is marketing, and, to be frank, not paying a company built on human misery. web.stanford.edu/class/e297a/... If you truly love your partner, buy lab-grown, and not DeBeers.

Are Diamonds Even a Luxury Anymore? De Beers Reckons With Price Plunge

The brand made mined diamonds synonymous with love and devotion. Now the CEO decries what he calls a “huge con” in lab-grown stones masquerading as precious.

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It will raise energy cost in every state while choking new power investments to death, ensuring China wins the race to dominate new cheap power production technology and supply chains. Dumb in every way.

Noahpinion@noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev · last yr.

Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars?

Felt like Billie Holiday was singing straight into our souls. A stunning performance from Lola Rose at the BKA Theater in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 #🌈📷 #dragqueen #queer #germany #photography

An incredible resource.

Daniel Gilbert@danielgilbert.bsky.social · last yr.

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

Those crazy alchemists finally did it www.home.cern/news/news/ph...

What in the Grok is this sassiness coming from ChatGPT? I’m actually mildly disturbed if they’ve started trying to give it a “personality”