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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Five American Universities
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You can support restrictions on mass domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons, but disagree that a defense contract is the optimal vehicle to achieve that policy outcome. The way you achieve new policy outcomes, under the usual rules of our republic, is to pass a law.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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When you think about trade with Canada, it’s useful to imagine aluminum not as a metal but as electricity in solid form.
~ Bill Saporito via The New York Times
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Guest Lecture
with Rick Beato
Top 20 One Hit Wonders of the ’90s – Rick Beato
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Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded.
~ Ted Chiang via The Atlantic
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SETU – Waterford
Five American Universities
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Interesting Read
via The Atlantic:
The College-Educated Working Class
by George Packer
published on March 16, 2026
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via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:
AI is disrupting the social fabric of our campus – and the wider world. The backlash against AI in commencement speeches in the summer of 2026 was just one expression of the discontent many feel about AI itself and the role Big Tech now plays in our society.
Published on August 13, 2026.
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