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According to the incongruity model, the humor response is triggered by awareness of conflicting interpretations of the narrative. In jokes, this triggering usually hinges on some linguistic ambiguity. To leverage incongruity, a funny punchl
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Journal articles represent an extreme where sharing is most ethical. An opposite extreme would be something like AAA games. In the range between are things like monographs, textbooks, literature, etc.
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In South Korea, educational inequality due to inability to afford educational materials has been an issue for many years. The argument against piracy is that people have the right to be compensated for their work. Consider this argument in
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I wonder how Terry Pratchett would have dealt with magical e-books? The goings on at the library of Unseen University were some of my favorite parts of Discworld.
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> In other words, what feels like a single, monolithic "literacy" ability is actually two distinct skills, each exercised in different instances and each capable of improving and decaying on its own. This dissociation has bee
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TFA misses a key difference between apprenticeship and classroom learning. Apprentice training tends to be one-on-one. When classroom instruction is done one-on-one, learning dramatically improves. This is called the "two sigma problem
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It was explained to me that this phenomenon is a product of the noise wavelength matching up with the distance between houses. When you stand between the houses, you are near a null point and may hear nothing at all. But the wall of your ho
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I know a consulting acoustical engineer who tracks down noise problems for companies and individuals. He goes on about the difficulty of even finding the source of low-frequency noise because of distance and vague directionality. In an extr
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The Penny Post, introduced in England in 1840, may have been an even greater catalyst of social change. Within urban areas, communication latency was surprisingly low. Londoners got five deliveries per day.
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I think that was also a factor in the early success of the Islamic conquest. The Arabians initially imposed lower taxes and interfered less with local politics.
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A woman with a visa valid through December 2025 is detained for staying past her visa. It would be good to hear from an immigration expert on what can be done to avoid this kind of screw up.
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> ...what if the AI generates incorrect code, and the bio people don't realize it? Cynically, there are plenty of people who don't care so long as they can get it published. Pragmatically, the quality of work is frequently so p
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Very well put. I expect the same thing is coming in Linguistics, though at a slower rate because linguists are even more tech/math-phobic than biologists.
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Interesting phenomenon, cursed by attention from writers on the paranormal. A pretty good treatment is The Entrancing Flame (1996) by retired policeman John E. Heymer. He starts with a case that he personally investigated. As I recall, he
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I have many colleagues in the humanities who are the same, even though they have been heavy users of personal computers since the beginning. They seem to just reject retaining detailed operational knowledge. This seems to be distinct from t
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People reason that if a skill is important, people need to become good at it, and becoming good requires starting early in life. This reasoning isn't valid for computer use, and I have an anecdote to illustrate why. When the internet w
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> The gun has been at the center of dozens of civil lawsuits claiming it has a design flaw, though judges and juries have delivered mixed verdicts over the company’s liability in these shootings. It does sound like there is a specific
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> writers...developed full books in their mind first When reading long, closely reasoned passages of medieval philosophy, I've wondered about their development process, when there was no such thing as scratch paper. > Kids that g
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You need to add into consideration that laying things out in visual display provides cognitive support, reducing the effort to reason about more things. So writing out ideas really does allow you to reach a greater scope of synthesis.
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Many years ago, like maybe in the 1920s, the randomness of success in life was the focus of popular interest sufficiently to inspire scholarly research. I think it was mostly history professors who collected case studies of "lucky&quot
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For most of the issues that human evaluators catch, I can conceive of technical solutions, except for the problem of factual errors. Solving the problem of factuality requires a sufficient model of the world, which is possible only in very
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TFA is a bit rambling and readers are getting distracted by specific claims, like the bit about 99.9%+ reliability. TFAs main point is that productive use of AI agents requires tightly specified context and frequent human intervention, whic
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That was annoying. Saw the post, then later had a hard time finding it again.
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TFA should be compared with Tufts (2025) A Practical Examination of AI-Generated Text Detectors for Large Language Models .[0] Tufts found that automated detection is very unreliable, while Russell found the opposite for human evaluators.
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Frequent users of ChatGPT are robust detectors of AI text(arxiv.org)
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When I was a kid, my family got a kitten and a puppy at the same time. There were no other domestic animals around, so the two had only each other for socialization. The dog apparently observed how much attention the cat got when it purred,
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I saw a video by an expert on Medieval weapons, demonstrating various arrowheads and their uses. For one of them, he said that we know the Europeans had it because it was pictured in Medieval manuscripts, but there is no record of what it w
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> smartphone addiction and constant connectivity become normalized Cyberpunk predicted this, but I don't think anyone predicted how we now see people relinquishing their thinking to LLMs. > Babies flick paper magazines to scroll
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Any discussion of sortition in politics needs at least a mention of Harrison Bergeron .
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Cyberpunk got the future exactly wrong. In the 1980s, being into computer technology meant being into hardware. You could scrounge it and tinker with it, and had to be clever and highly motivated to do that. Cyberpunk took the computer geek

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