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Thor A. Hopland<p>This apologia being said, the fact is that <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> shouldn't be here - yet. </p><p>In a responsible world this would be an idea on paper until we've reached a point where we could develop a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/NPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPU</span></a> to facilitate <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> or <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> - as an academic project that could reach maturity in like a 100 years</p><p>But since <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> is the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/socioeconomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socioeconomic</span></a> equivalent of shooting cocaine straight into the vein, what we see is irresponsible execs - who are destroying <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acedemia</span></a> - while slamming their foot on the pedal.</p>
aburtch<p>Trump is coming for <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acedemia</span></a> next. And so far it seems administrators haven’t been resisting.</p><p>“Under the cover of rolling back unpopular left-wing excesses, Trump’s team is trying to assert political control over American higher education, and it seems to be pushing on an open door.” </p><p>This will inevitably lead to a new McCarthyism where professors will be investigated and terminated simply for their beliefs. </p><p>(Gift link, no paywall) <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/trump-dei-education-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rk4.UQvV.T-5sJ7yrZurL&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/trump-dei-education-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rk4.UQvV.T-5sJ7yrZurL&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Andrzej Wąsowski (moved away)<p>At a low point tonight. Reminding myself that overinvesting your energy into work and into your employment is a very risk thing to do. Psychologically risky. Employers would care relatively little about the happiness of the individuals. The average over large institution is a good enough metric.</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acedemia</span></a></p>
SwindlerOfInsanity<p>be me: learning about economics in class</p><p>thinking what a flimsy god to believe in</p><p>Probably one of the more dissatisfying myths conjured up by the human Psyche</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acedemia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/criticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criticism</span></a></p>
Thor A. Hopland<p>Enlightenment dies when authoritarianism rears it's ugly head, and that's by design. You can't have stupid throngs of submissive and yet violent masses without <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/antiintellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiintellectualism</span></a> .</p><p><a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> people talk about how the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> occupation would persecute their intellectuals, to subvert the Polish expert class. That's also how the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/colonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonizers</span></a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/slavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavers</span></a> destroyed <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a>.</p><p>They don't come for the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/guns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guns</span></a> first, they come for the experts, the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acedemia</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=YKSyWqcKing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">invidious.privacyredirect.com/</span><span class="invisible">watch?v=YKSyWqcKing</span></a></p>
PaquitoBernard<p>Our study is out:</p><p>Effects of supervised <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/physical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physical</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/exercise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exercise</span></a> on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/emotions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emotions</span></a> among adult women with a diagnostic of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/borderline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderline</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/personality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personality</span></a> disorder: A series of mixed method single-case experimental trials combined with ecological momentary assessment</p><p>🔓 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajsep.2024.05.002" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1016/j.ajsep.2024.0</span><span class="invisible">5.002</span></a> </p><p>2nd attempt to combine <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nof1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nof1</span></a> with daily measures of psychological outcomes</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acedemia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/psychiatry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychiatry</span></a></p>
Thor A. Hopland<p>Oh my. What a surprise. Big corporation <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facebook</span></a> pays their way to avoiding culpability by also corrupting <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acedemia</span></a>... I mean corrupt it _even more_, of course. </p><p>Harvard Gutted Initial Team Examining Facebook Files Following $500 Million Donation from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Whistleblower Aid Client Reveals - Whistleblower Aid<br><a href="https://whistlebloweraid.org/joan-donovan-press-release/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">whistlebloweraid.org/joan-dono</span><span class="invisible">van-press-release/</span></a></p>
Balazs Aczel<p>Does anyone know any institute's strategy to cope with AI-text generation in students' assignments/theses etc. ? <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acedemia</span></a></p>
Balazs Aczel<p>Does anyone know a university policy that regulates the use of AI-based text-generation systems? <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Acedemia</span></a></p>
BenH<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a><br>Hello, I'm new on this instance. I'm a researcher in Civil and Environmental Engineering. I would be happy to discussabout <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/acedemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acedemia</span></a> and related stuff! :)<br>Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all of you</p>