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if true, this is bringing trolling to a new level
hirundo.io/blog/qwen3-coder-…
A major problem with advanced LLMs is their ability to manipulate human judgment. Their outputs can fool users (and even their makers) into attributing consciousness and agency to algorithms, influencing how we think and make decisions.
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
ICYMI this is a banger by @elizabethjdias
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nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an… via @NYTimes
College enrollments are not dropping because of incorrect assumptions about AI. They are dropping because the historical advantages of going to college outweigh less than less the costs of going to college. + foreign students are feeling less welcome in many countries.
Bouke De Vries also has a project based on pro-natalist views... research.ugent.be/web/result…
What a terrible start for a new venture. "the rapid pace of innovation suggests we're approaching artificial intelligence" 🤣 even ChatGPT knows it's evidence free.
For example, these are the means of h-index across fields, which vary by a factor of almost 5. Does anyone believe that computer science has been less impactful than medicine?
arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07893
Framing this as a left-right debate is misleading. Look, for example, at Cofnas’s most cited work. A high-school student could have refuted it. Like eugenics and “race science,” this is not truth-seeking, but an example of what happens when scientific standards are not upheld.
The project for which Nathan Cofnas was reportedly hired, “The Birth Problem of Liberalism”, casts religious minorities as a “challenge to liberal democracies” because of their birth rates. Can't imagine a more openly discriminatory and illiberal premise.
Guess who paid for data centers and tax cuts for the wealthy in 2025? Taxes increased for 95% of the population. Six firms shared 40% of total tax breaks. 88 profitable companies paid 0% tax. Foreign investors got a larger share of the OBBBA tax cut than the lowest income 40%.
Dario, you’re right: AI negativity isn’t about warnings. It’s about tech’s track record: privacy, exploitation, addictive products, deepfakes, hype and concentrated power. We appreciate Anthropic’s efforts to do better, but the results are mixed at best.
