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  jamelle jamellebouie.net · May 7
  i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers
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    Peter notalawyer.bsky.social · May 7
    it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
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  Derek Fox partialobserver.bsky.social · May 7
  This was ALWAYS the final destination of the student loan-fueled maximum-extraction instrumentalist STEM-centric vision of college education: Our student-customers demanding the degree & social experience they paid for, with any *learning* treated as accidental if not downright counterproductive.
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    Hypervisible hypervisible.bsky.social · May 7
    “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
    

    Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

    ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

    nymag.com
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  Emily Hunt emily.space · May 7
  Cool new paper out today that does a really thorough look at the ages of some of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters! 🔭☄️ Thread here from one of the authors: ⬇️
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    Mike Boylan-Kolchin mbkplus.bsky.social · May 7
    New paper alert! How old is the Universe? Well, it better not be younger than the age of the oldest collections of stars. We did some modernized calculations of ages of globular clusters, taking into account uncertainties in our understanding of stellar physics and distances / reddening. [1/n] 🧪
    

    The Absolute Age of Milky Way Globular Clusters

    Globular clusters (GCs) provide statistically significant coeval populations of stars spanning various evolutionary stages, allowing robust constraints on stellar evolution model parameters and ages. ...

    arxiv.org
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