Articles by dougb5
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Resist and Unsubscribe (resistandunsubscribe.com)

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Vim 9 Plugins for Lean (castedo.com)

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Schwarzman, OpenAI's Brockman Boost $102M Trump War Chest (yahoo.com)

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Please, Don't Automate Science (togelius.blogspot.com)

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"Many students are simply refusing to do *anything*." (bsky.app)

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Jack Conte on "an algorithm that doesn't rot your brain" (nytimes.com)

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OpenAI Seeks Government Backing to Boost AI Investments (barrons.com)

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Superintelligence Isn't Enough (persuasion.community)

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Effort Fortifies (onelook.com)

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Holding It Together (onelook.com)

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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom (theatlantic.com)

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Stop talking to technology executives like they have anything to say (stilldrinking.org)

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First-Name Basis (mailchi.mp)

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Microdefinitions (mailchi.mp)

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Microdefinitions (mailchi.mp)

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Easter Egg Acrostics (mailchi.mp)

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U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported (nytimes.com)

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Have humans passed peak brain power? (ft.com)

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Show HN: Pandergram: A slow and gentle word game (onelook.com)

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Compound Your Joy: Link English Word Pairs (onelook.com)

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We Are Dancing Animals (Vonnegut on Automation) (2023) (insidehook.com)

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Why the public should care about the freeze on the NIH (bsky.app)

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Fluoride debate in city council meetings (civicsearch.org)

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Threepeat (onelook.com)

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The A.I. Power Grab (nytimes.com)

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AI's Big Gift to Society Is Pithy Summaries? (wired.com)

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I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT (time.com)

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RIP Journalist, Editor and Counterculture Enthusiast, Steve Silberman (relix.com)

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[flagged] MIT undergraduate admissions in the wake of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling (news.mit.edu)

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What Teachers Told Me About A.I. In School (nytimes.com)

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The internet is mostly complete. Where does tech go from here? (noahpinion.blog)

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Generative AI can't cite its sources (theatlantic.com)

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Altman, Huffington launching AI health coach (thehill.com)

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Google dropping continuous scroll in search results (searchengineland.com)

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Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off (pluralistic.net)

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AI and the Death of Student Writing (chronicle.com)

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Search Canadian city council meetings (civicsearch.org)

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SFist Critique of City Campus and California Forever (sfist.com)

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Compound Your Joy: Test your knowledge of English phrases (onelook.com)

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Mint Butterfield rescued: Tech billionaire's 16-year-old child found in SF (sfstandard.com)

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Finding Mentions of Local Places in City Council Meetings (medium.com/ryanloftus02)

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Bus Rapid Transit (civicsearch.org)

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Chronic Absenteeism (civicsearch.org)

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Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research (nature.com)

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Poetry Will Not Optimize; Or, What Is Literature to AI? (dukeupress.edu)

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CivicSearch: Search the content of city council meetings (civicsearch.org)

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Copyaid.it: Copyedit with AI from a CLI (copyaid.it)

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OpenAI Preparedness Challenge (openai.com)

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Online discourse of engaged partisans is toxic even when politics are irrelevant (oup.com)

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OpenAI close to signing S.F.'s biggest office lease since 2018 (sfchronicle.com)

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63 percent of US voters want regulation to prevent AI superintelligence (vox.com)

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What percent of SF's road network can you name from memory? (carvin.github.io)

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Doug Lenat (1950-2023) (twitter.com/tdietterich)

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Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc (arxiv.org)

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School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books (popsci.com)

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Why “anomie” is eroding the soul of our society (bigthink.com)

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OpenAI’s Secretive SF Offices Installing Nap Rooms, a Museum for Staffers (sfstandard.com)

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Artificial Intelligence and the Ever-Receding Horizon of the Future (techpolicy.press)

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Search Gizmos – news, Web, and Wikipedia search tools (searchgizmos.com)

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Google Labs (2002) (archive.org)

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MIT CSAIL Professor Explains: Large Language Models: Part 1 (youtube.com)

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Yael Tauman Kalai Honored with ACM Prize in Computing (acm.org)

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Bengio response to the open letter on slowing down AI development (yoshuabengio.org)

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Conspiracy Theories Have a New Best Friend (theatlantic.com)

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Feedback Map: View the free-form responses to Google Forms surveys (feedbackmap.org)

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ChatGPT Isn’t the Only Way to Use AI in Education (wired.com)

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Our 2022 Waterloo co-op term: In which organising words is a labour of love (datamuse.com)