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fromBig Think
10 hours ago

The beauty of writing in public

The deeper issue is uniformity of thought. These systems can test your personality with startling accuracy. Combined with your chat history and prompts, the model nudges you into particular 'basins of attraction.' You think you've had an original idea, but you haven't. The model blends and regurgitates existing material. Multiply that across millions of users and intellectual diversity collapses. John Stuart Mill argued that diversity of opinion sustains democracy. If AI funnels us all into the same conceptual pathways, we lose that.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 months ago

In Defense of Academic Freedom

Defending academic freedom is crucial, even for harmful ideas, as censoring them opens the door to broader oppression.
Historical context reveals that purging dissenting ideas threatens intellectual freedom and democracy.
Academic institutions must protect diverse viewpoints to uphold foundational principles of freedom.
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