Ben Tsai

The existence and availability of ai products changes the way we approach problems.

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I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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For those who want to dive deeper into this data, Ed Next (journal at Harvard) has republished my essay on what I call The 50 Percent Problem, my *conservative* estimate of how many students are harmed by using AI. www.educationnext.org/the-penalty-...

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Stock art maintenance - if you've worked with me; I'm a big fan of @kinopio.club; I'm currently working out a way to catalogue my stock art - starting with #Morktober 2026. So this will be a white board experience with what each card/day would release with as I cut em up.

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LLM-generated output posing as “writing” is like that junk mail you get that looks important and personal, with a handwritten message. Then you realize it is a fake and immediately toss it in the trash because you know it’s worthless and trying to sell you something.

Every AI-based solution is a bandaid for a symptom and only worsens the entire system. Oh, I need to orchestrate agents to filter out all the noise among the chats and Jira tickets and emails I get. The problem is organizational. But use ai, and you lose sight of that and never fix it.

What would Jesus vibe-code?

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it's just personalized, customizable plagiarism

surely i'm missing out on a sponsorship or other opportunity to monetize the fact that my surname has the letters "ai"

This meeting could have been an email could have been a podcast

When I say I've been working on this debunking for *years* that includes academic publications. Here's a quick thread:

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

I know I’ve been posting a lot but I’m thinking of reviving The Organic Software Directory as a webring. ("Organic Software" was coined by @pketh.org in this fantastic post, which you should read: pketh.org/organic-soft... )

Who defined the problem? Who controls the system? Who benefits and bears the errors? Who can contest the decision? Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu propose four questions every consequential AI audit should answer, adding a "power test" alongside the fairness test.

For all human history, it was far more difficult to write a document than to read it. Until now. But generating a document doesn't make the work of *producing meaning* disappear. It's just been outsourced from the producers of the document to its consumers.

What's so sad about those who deny this is they must then therefore think humans are formal systems. Which may be true I guess, but we have no evidence for this. So if they truly think this, they can prove it by showing us the formalisms. But I won't be holding my breath for them to write it up. 💀

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

I predict that in the future, there will be only two types of people. Those who are right-handed, and those who are not.

semicolon is punctuation dark horse

Is Flickr still okay?

After a few months of paying the actual cost of AI via token-based billing, an increasingly-anxious conversation has begun about AI's ROI. Per Cisco's Jeetu Patel, the costs of AI tokens are far higher than the actual value that these tokens are generating at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/brokenomics/

Dr. Velislava Hillman and Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger argue that as AI erodes job markets, it exposes the reality that the crisis facing young people "was never primarily technological, but political." Time to rethink what education is for, they say.

I really like this article on utilitarian vs systematic view of GenAI makemeacto.cc/how-exactly-...

the language around the red card being suspended is confusing because without it being suspended, the balogun is suspended. two different suspensions being talked about.

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