Hirschman's Rhetoric of Reaction can be used here, I think? e.g. AI ban makes the problem worse because everyone will hide their use / be unable to educate themselves on how to use it without error (Perversity), AI ban will accomplish nothing (Futility), AI ban will risk academic freedoms (Jeopardy)

incredible how the smoking ban in pubs actually makes my coat smell *more* of cigarette smoke when i get back from the pub. it's the damndest thing!

a simple solution that i think everyone could agree with: Procrustean parking spaces

i wonder if it'd be possible to internet-bully him into eating his microphone on-air like badlose and the book

Suffolk currently on fire, more than half of England in drought conditions, "severe" food shortages in the UK predicted in the next 5 years? all fine, good actually, silver lining, because James O'Brien can eat dinner outside in the evening and have lots of barbecues

the woke mob would rather spend taxpayers' money to risk blackouts than bathe for free in the comforting, homely light of burning forests

i love starting a company to retrieve low-background steel from the ocean floor and funnel it directly into an open nuclear reactor

if only he still had a wife

pictured: treat boy hearing a pack of mr kipling's exceedingly fine cakes being opened in the distance

begging AI Carns to just once make a public statement which does not in any way try to remind people that he was in the army. we get it. we understand. please stop

congrats to the Times for managing to fit an entirely different variation of anti-public-health stance into this article by, in passing, implying anyone who chose or chooses not to go to an event because they might have COVID is "lacking will"

shocked and horrified to discover that the autocomplete we trained with (amongst other things) sci-fi about AI takeover is autocompleting our sci-fi-sounding prompts with a story about AI takeover

does he ever stop, is he capable of not doing this

was it The Machines Are...? someone linked that yesterday and it's weird, clearly LLM-written and imo trying to use a reasonable critique of AI in early-career academia to smuggle in justification for it being fine & good actually when established academics enslopify fields of research. great stuff