Hollis Robbins
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The best site on AI & education https://t.co/o8YEv9tuyC. @UUtah @Princeton @Kennedy_School https://t.co/iz0KJeULKP
Joined January 2009
RT @danwwang: My new book Breakneck will be released next week. Today, the Atlantic is carrying an excerpt of the introduction:. https://t.c….
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If universities are going to offer 3-year degrees (as they should) better to lop off the general education classes than the upper-level cutting-edge knowledge classes or what is the point?.
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RT @philippilk: From Dan Wang’s new book. Interesting thesis. Engineers do tend to think in terms of solving problems. Lawyers profit when….
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As I used to tell my students, Moby-Dick is about a whale. The Odyssey is about Odysseus. Pride and Prejudice is about pride and prejudice. When you start out looking for meaning you don't hear the literary work telling you what it's about.
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Friends don't let friends use contrastive construction!.
How to Tell if Something is AI-Written, by @Anecdotal . "Ask: does it seem like a specific human wrote this, or does it read like an institutional voice that could represent anyone and no one?". #AI #ChatGPT #highered #edtech
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RT @GutkinLen: More relevant than ever: A rich essay by Adam Sitze about the long and complex legal history of university autonomy: https:/….
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Academic freedom from the Middle Ages to apartheid South Africa to now.
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Forget constructive dialogue. The course that should be mandated is research methods.
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RT @RyanEQuinn: University of Chicago Reducing, Freezing Ph.D. Admissions for Multiple Humanities Programs.
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The indebted institution tasked committees of faculty and staff with planning for changes. But this week, a dean forged ahead and announced broad cuts. Two other units are also pausing admissions.
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RT @Musa_alGharbi: More on the prevalence and distribution of antisemitic attitudes & behaviors is here, in this deep dive for @mattyglesia….
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There's not a major antisemitism epidemic in the U.S., at universities or on the left. These are all contexts antisemitism is especially rare
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RT @compactmag_: “Is the university functioning as a kind of tax-free pass-through organization?”. Read Clifford Ando’s piece in COMPACT: h….
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The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it...
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If anyone wants to dig into the data themselves, here's the crosswalk. (@ProfEricAdler you may find this interesting, re your recent humanities cuts piece.)
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If I'm remembering correctly, the point wasn't the highest IQ mustard seed but that the soil should be good.
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Underlying the trend nationally is a Dept. of Education & Dept. of Labor "workforce alignment" algorithm (the CIP-SOP crosswalk) that does not link philosophy to a specific career & so is worthless. Yet philosophy majors can do ANY job. @DailyNousEditor .
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The President of Monmouth College, a private liberal arts college in Illinois, has recently announced that students at the school will no longer be able to major in philosophy, nor in a number of...
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I'll write more about this at length but hope this is helpful.
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I'm bullish on the future of AI & education. But it's tiring when people lean on LLMs to write for them. It's frustrating to *read* AI-generated text. My aphantasia has meant I lean on words to mean things specifically. Turns out this is helpful for identifying AI writing.
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RT @mbrendan1: Self-cultivation > skill cultivation. Wilhelm von Humboldt's vision for education differed widely from the "Prussian model"….
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RT @bimedotcom: Can AI write great books? . 👉Something is lost when there’s no soul and no weight of a life lived behind the words. But the….
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Such a great conversation on the topic of the era, with @JohnathanBi, @mbrendan1, @AriSchulman, the amazing @zenahitz, and the brilliant @stjohnscollege and @cosmos_inst community.
AI can write a Great Book. There’s no reason why a human has to be behind a book for it to be “great.” Philosophers are not safe. To be clear, something is lost when there’s no soul behind the words. We read Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Machiavelli and we feel the weight of a
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