[FRIAM] more bullsh¡t

[Steve Smith]

> AI, Teaching, and "Our Willingness to Give Bullshit a Pass"
> https://dailynous.com/2023/01/05/ai-teaching-and-our-willingness-to-give-bullshit-a-pass/ 
>
>
> The first time I heard this argument was from these guys:
>
> https://www.audible.com/pd/Pill-Pod-104-AI-the-New-Crisis-of-Humanities-Education-Podcast/B0BPQ77Z8P 
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> My phrasing of the idea being that tools like ChatGPT are analogous to 
> calculators, allowing the computer to do what it's good at and freeing 
> humans up to do what we're good at. Why require students to learn 
> bullshit rhetorical styling when we can teach them to think about the 
> *substance* ... a lesson many of us learned from Knuth's TeX a long 
> time ago. The trick is that tools like ChatGPT are built around the 
> bullshit-generation use case. What we need are tools built around the 
> bullshit-detection use case.
>
and is the introduction of GPTZero (and it's ilk) represent closing the 
loop in an "antagonistic" pair to hone that BS generator even faster?

> With branch prediction, we could implant a little device just under 
> the eardrum that listened to someone's speech acts for a tiny 
> fraction, predict where it was going, and call bullshit or "pay 
> attention" for some interval. The bullshitters' rhetoric would never 
> even reach your audio perception devices. ... like trigger warnings 
> for all of us sensitive snowflakes who can't bear to look on images of 
> Mohammed 
> <https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/01/05/hamline-university-assailed-for-firing-professor-who-showed-images-of-muhammads-face/>.

With a nod to our resident trans/post-humanist(s), our perceptual 
circuits *already* select for what they have been trained to 
see/hear/smell/taste/feel some things more/better/easier/differently 
than others.  So jacking that up with pass-through AR technology is 
totally "obvious"... and therefore a "good idea"?

>
> Those of us who've kissed the Blarney Stone, unfortunately, would 
> spend our lives talking to brick walls.

But with things developing as they are, the brick walls would be capable 
of a much more interesting dialogue, perhaps, than people (though given 
nay will be post/trans-humans, WTF?).   A wall of (otherwise) bricked 
smart-devices programmed just to be contrarian with your syntax and 
logic constructions?

I think this is probably where we are headed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
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