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Paul Nightingale
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Professor of Strategy at SPRU - the Science Policy Research Unit

Teaches SPRU 1.01

Research Policy.

HSP.

Views mine, not my employer.

Politics unfashionable since 1654

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · Jan 7

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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social · 4h
Amazing postdoc opportunity in history of modern mathematics at IAS surrounded by excellent mathematicians, historians of science, and STS scholars. www.math.ias.edu/~akshay/hist...
Postdoctoral Scholar, History of Modern Mathematics | Institute for Advanced Study
www.math.ias.edu

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 5h
I don’t mean this to be cruel, but there’s just too much air being taken up by people with media or tech backgrounds who think their hot take on consciousness with LLMs is new, and lord it has all been done before and we’re past that.

Christ, half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 8h
This is very good. And very funny about the nonsense being spouted about AI this week.

Reposted by Paul Nightingale, Michael Larkin

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 11h
Far too many quotable bits in @mjrobbins.com latest piece about the AI apocalypse doomed, so you'll just have to go read the whole thing martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
The AI Apocalypse is Extremely Boring Now
Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.
martinrobbins.substack.com

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
Politics about the politics of science

www.aip.org/fyi/research...
Researchers Skeptical of NSF Metascience Plan
The agency issued a memo last week laying out several grantmaking changes, including a new office for metascience.
www.aip.org

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d
It’s very simple. AI isn’t independent or autonomous. It’s a tool being specifically programmed to commit crimes against humans and against rival businesses. But the fantasy of autonomy is an incredible facade that means total deniability and our political and media classes have already bought in.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d
The British tech leader on coding as the modern form of literacy, his scepticism of AI evangelists — and the origin of his interest in geekery: ft.trib.al/D9bgu0J

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
Just had lunch with a friend of mine who is also an editor of an academic journal.

They are drowning in AI slop and they are going to quit and hand the problem onto the next generation.

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 1d
NEJM: The End of the War on Biomedical Science?

by David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
@davidblumenthal.bsky.social @nejm.org

depending on continued activism, perhaps room for optumism

bit.ly/4yNxiWZ 💥

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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 1d
Small-N assessment: AI makes everyone more productive output-wise, but I, as a senior person with prior knowledge benefit the most, while my ("junior") students struggle with actual learning.
This paper proves this with a larg(er)-N causal design:

www.nber.org/papers/w35720
Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
The waiter took the burning bread basket & threw it in the kitchen bin. The bin caught alight & we all had to leave.

Went on a Valentines day date to OXO tower & they put us on a table right by the men's toilet (ffs). The kitchen caught alight and we left without paying. The curse was lifted.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
Went on a date with a lovely lady to a nice place in Cardiff and managed to set her alight moving the candle. Threw water on her and she finished the meal soaked, with a plate sized burn on her dress. Years later managed to set the table align at Terre a Terre in Brighton on another date. 1

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 1d
Relax, everybody

cepr.org/voxeu/column...
New jobs in 140 years of data: Why the AI displacement fear is overstated — and what to worry about instead
Forecasts of AI-driven job destruction rest on counting automatable tasks. But labour markets hire, pay, and fire whole occupations, not tasks – and occupations have proved far more durable than task ...
cepr.org

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d
When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe...

Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:
Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
100% agree.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
Nice MIT report on AI in higer ed
aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
Report – AI and Education
aiandeducation.mit.edu

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d
‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’ www.ft.com/content/7a28...
Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction
ALT: Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction
static.klipy.com

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d
Damn. @tobyn.bsky.social has produced the most detailed map of Big AI’s incestuous relationships I’ve seen so far. And it’s interactive! www.ft.com/content/8475...

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 2d
Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.