Carl T. Bergstrom
UW biology prof.
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
I don't like fascists.
he/him
- Bennington birding 🪶
- This is not good news. And none of the 278 men sent to CECOT without due process have been returned to the US, despite court orders.
- An extraordinary story about how scientists in the US are afraid to speak up as the entire science research ecosystem is demolished at the hands of the Republican administration. Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?
- “The lived experience of a scientist right now is terrifying” My colleague Warren Cornwall spoke to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, @rebekahtromble.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social and others about “the fear and self-censorship coursing through the nation’s scientific establishment today”. 🧪
- Straining the bounds of propriety is when I gave a talk at an Ivy League med school wearing jeans and a polo. This is extraordinary corruption.
- "Strains bounds of propriety"? How about "shatters every ethical norm of public service"? I truly want to know what the headline writers at the @nytimes.com are smoking, and to what end.
- "Strains bounds of propriety"? How about "shatters every ethical norm of public service"? I truly want to know what the headline writers at the @nytimes.com are smoking, and to what end.
- It would be wildly foolish it is to rely on any sort of AI to make decisions in tense international situations. But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
- Even the Trojans weren't stupid enough to get IN the horse.
- Tonight in amazing music: I'm a long-time fan of Norwegian jazz trumpeter Nils Peter Molvær. And I've been pushing everyone I know to listen to the Sweetheart, the best (Scandin)americana band you've never heard. Here they are playing together. It's sublime. h/t @acresofsnow.bsky.social
- nothing to worry about here at all
