Mel Andrews

I am thrilled to join this workshop at NYU next week. Follow links to register.

a lemon? it’s a sort of oblong, yellow citrus fruit

yet I settled for a lemonless existence

First time in Berkeley since nearly coming here for my PhD. A return to the land of giant lemons.

Wonderful work.

A woman (Hertha Sponer) photographed in black and white, slightly blurry, weaking a white garment looking leftward at an experimental apparatus with wires, pipes, and glass bulbs.

Just us at AIP in Washington, DC, on Friday, March 20, as we welcome philosopher and historian Elise Crull for our first Lyne Starling Trimble public event of the year: "Hertha Sponer and the Path from Electron Diffraction to Wave/Particle Duality"

RSVP today: www.aip.org/history/elis...

How can we defend against AI-generated articles being used as a denial of service attack? Our journal has had an increase in AI-generated nonsensical garbage articles as well as high-quality fake data AI-generated articles using our template. The high-quality fakes are convincing enough…

If you wrote “AI-generated papers are DDoSing journals” I commend you. Also please reach out I would like to chat and possibly invite you to a workshop publicationethics.org/guidance/cas...

have you tried sandwich

If you would like to know what @balloonleap.bsky.social and I think about the relationship between generative AI chatbots and the teaching of writing, we have an article for you to read! 1/

#writingstudies #genai+writing #teamrhetoric

cjsdw.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/dw...

What's missing? The public. Decisions about whether AI can surveil American citizens or autonomously deploy lethal force are being settled in a contract dispute. No Congress. No democratic deliberation. No accountability. We've outsourced questions about the use of force to a corporate negotiation.

In my imagination people bet on the outcomes of bingo games but I may be wrong about this.

but with the further sense of powerful normative consequences for which meaning is operationalized and how. I propose “bingo cage concepts.” They contain a plethora of folk meanings all tossed about and there are high stakes consequences to which meaning(s) we select.

It has become clear to me in the course of this discussion that I am looking for a term that captures the essence of Minsky’s “suitcase words,” meaning a folk-ontological concept containing many, sometimes contradictory meanings which evade scientific operationalization,

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

( more seriously, I may have combined these together in my head )

It is not this but I know that it is semantically adjacent to this.

I must have been thinking of suitcase-in-an-elevator concepts, bingo!

I’m not sure!

True! I suspect this group will be rather more nuanced, though.

Do we remember the term Ian Hacking used for concepts that were folk-ontological, deeply polysemous, and value-laden? Something like suitcase concepts, duffel bag concepts, garbage bag concepts... I’m drawing a mental blank.

hmm, how so?

hopefully

Excited to join a workshop at Stanford next week and a conference at NYU the following week, where I will be discussing different aspects of AI integration in science.

is this the future we want?

You extra wouldn’t give the nuclear codes to a furby obsessed with nuclear strikes. bsky.app/profile/mims...

It would be difficult for me to conjure up a more catastrophically stupid historical decision than lending LLM-based AI agents autonomous control over kill-orders. You wouldn’t give the nuclear codes to a furby.

There are entirely legitimate critiques of political Zionism, and I have made many of them myself. But any serious critique of Zionism has to reckon with how Jews have been portrayed as "invaders" wherever we live, and how this has fed into Zionism and made it seem necessary to many.

I’d put that on a par with paying for red meat… or gas for your excessively large truck

​I don’t think using large language models is unethical. I also don’t think it’s a good idea to use a nail gun as a toothbrush, even if the nail gun company runs late night television ads that say “makes a great toothbrush!”

that’s not a bug, it’s a feature! think of it as neuroprotective.