Andrew M. Bailey
@resistance.money
Professor at the National University of Singapore. I teach and write about money, technology, and philosophy. andrewmbailey.com
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sometimes I'm surprised at how willing people are to posit conspiracy theories. it's as if they had a secret meeting to coordinate (conspire, if you will) this strange behavior. that's my theory.
guy who uses Claude to write all his blog posts about how AI is bad; audience so clueless, they can't spot the Claudisms and heap guy with praise (many such cases)
A new interview just dropped in Nautilus about frontier issues related to the Dunning Kruger effect: Does AI suffer? Is it complicit? On the statistical critique. What about experts? The Nobel disease. And although education is an overwhelming good, it does have an issue. nautil.us/why-we-think...
Why We Think We Know More Than We Do
Why We Think We Know More Than We Do: Breaking down the famous “Dunning-Kruger effect” with David Dunning himself
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Indian Government forces GitHub to take down Bitchat "Bitchat enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralized logging The architecture significantly impedes interception, attribution, and investigation by law enforcement agencies."
Ricardo making The China AI Argument in 1817: "The employment of machinery could never be safely discouraged in a State, for if a capital is not allowed to get the greatest net revenue that the use of machinery will afford here, it will be carried abroad"
people wonder about good masculinity; yet its perfect image was given to us over a half century ago
A fun conversation from last week. I swear I didn't write the title! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXfz...
Professor’s Brilliant Rebuttal to Bitcoin’s Biggest Critics (w/ Andrew Bailey)
YouTube video by The Sat Stacker Show
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AI Prompt for Catholic theologians and philosophers: "Read my publications, and L. Ott's Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (PDFs attached) and evaluate everything I've ever said for heresy. Have I ever denied a de fide dogma? Link every finding to specific quotations from my writing and Ott."
Oh you’re a professor? Nice, how many students have you cured?
you just know this Irritating Gentleman has some amazing AI hot takes
"Authors should avoid citing their own work in a way that could reveal their identity." 🤔🤔🤔
"They are weaker, not stronger: for though we may have put wonderful machines in their hands we have pre-ordained how they are to use them" — CS Lewis on AI safety layers
New article: "Who is God?". Develops themes in my book with @bradleyrettler.com on divine personality, and some new problems for its main idea. Bonus: a goofy LLM analogy I couldn't quite get rid of except by publishing! triptychjournal.com/article.html...
I rate asymmetric "following" up there with "likes" and Node.js (and the rest of the AJAX/websockets/React/html5 nexus — live updating of webpages, so you don't need to refresh to get notifications) in terms of importance for how things turned out.
"Alignment" is from corporate governance, and means obedience. And no machine can obey humanity. So what "alignment" really means is: obedience to some people.
Other people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.
Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
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the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable
Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3mo agoFWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
Left wing nativism is so interesting. It typically slips out unawares. Why should citizens enjoy, by law, special social or economic privileges over non-citizens? The most obvious answers don't sit well with egalitarian or cosmopolitan assumptions.
choose your faction: - I made a vape that's also a hammer - Hammers are going to become god & change everything - I tried holding the hammer by the head and it didn't work, this is bullshit - Hammers are useful tools sometimes - Hammers? You mean murder-tools, as seen in the documentary The Raid 2?
20 years ago today — 5 days before the deadline and back when I had a leather jacket a dog and a jawline — I was plucked off a waitlist and admitted to the philosophy PhD program at Notre Dame. What a ride it's been: the heights and the depths. I'm grateful for them all.
Here's a nice quote from Len Deighton's Berlin Game, one for the real CI heads. Ping @adam35.bsky.social @wylienewmark.bsky.social et al.
