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Which Machine God Will Be Born? (opens the original)
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So this was the week that AI Doom broke containment, where everyone started talking about human extinction, and also talking about whether “talking about human extinction” was just a marketing ploy to convince capital markets to continue to pour the world’s accumulated surplus into the whirlpool of the artificial. There are various helpful explainers about the politics and sociology of this debat
The Discipline and the Discipline (opens the original)
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I just finished reading China Miéville’s arresting 2009 novel The City and the City, in which two city-states are layered between each other and citizens of each have to navigate the same streets without acknowledging each other. Entirely seperate cultures and economies coexist in the same topographic space, while strictly enforced norms keep the populations socially distant. When you “see” someone from the other city, you have to quickly “unsee” them, enough to keep from bumping into each other
A confession: I p-hacked the k-index (opens the original)
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A few quick announcements: I just published a blueprint for university survival in the age of AI for the excellent Asterisk Magazine, which I’ll discuss further in a future post. For the political scientists among my readers, I’ll be at the APSA meeting in Boston next week — drop me a line! I’ll be participating in a panel about AI and peer review (inspired somewhat my article Peer Review 2027, now forthcoming i
Academia as a d-index measuring contest (opens the original)
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Social scientists are victims of the quantification trap. We do things, countable things, so those things are counted, and the resulting numbers are taken to mean something; any number beats no number. Nowhere is this more apparent than in how we evaluate ourselves, and especially how university administrators evaluate us, for hiring, tenure and promotion. “Deans can’t read, but they can count,” the old joke goes: we’re not rewarded for the quality of what we write but for the sheer amoun
We Need To Talk (opens the original)
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Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak the language at the same time that your newborn baby gets his first major daycare illness. Today’s post was commissioned and originally published by the excellent people at Amsterdam-based “platform for internet cultures” The Hmm (shouts out to Sjef and Lilian) as a extension of a talk I gave as part of their Symposihmm on The New Orality. Given the importance of the whirlpool to my theory of con
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