Erin Lockwood
Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine | researching and teaching IPE, financial politics, global inequality | fan of plants, birds, snacks, sci-fi, quilting | she/her
- This is the same canard as whole chain-of-thought prompting hype. LLMs don't think; they cannot produce a chain of thought. What they generate via CoT prompting is not a reproduction of their "reasoning," and several recent studies have shown that CoT output can be systematically unfaithful 🧵
- I am reading a LOT of graduate work this quarter and finding myself oddly cheered by quirks of individual student writing: one student's tendency to (over)use a particular word, another's fondness for a particular sentence construction, another's affinity for a particular kind of run-on sentence.
- Sure seems like we'd want to see the text of those deals before drawing such a credulous conclusion about the unconditional benevolence of the Qatari emir. Perhaps unfair to expect the New York Times to be aware of everything published in [checks notes] the New York Times.
- This money-changers in the temple thing is such obvious bait, just be chill. One thing that can make the church powerful is that its motivations can't be reduced to instrumental rationality. The gospels are all about inverting and undermining dominant political and normative logics.
- Great, thank you so much, so glad to see my institution actively, uncritically, and enthusiastically undermining faculty pedagogy.
- His last name being Blanche is a bit too on the nose.
- My church helped resettle one of these families last year. A family that has built ties to a new community, started new jobs and language classes, whose kids just got settled into new schools is now at risk of being deported to a country where they'll be at obvious political risk. Unconscionable.
- The near-perfect anecdote about AI's basic inability to cite work accurately and, more broadly, to grasp cultural systems of meaning (and implicitly about the devaluation of either of these tasks by firms profiting from the use of AI). www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...
- I would expect no less from the church of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, especially given that this administration is not admitting and resettling any (other) refugees. Still, I don't take anything for granted these days and am proud of my church.
- BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
- A great discussion of AI governance last week as part of CPS-IoT Week at @ucirvine.bsky.social.
