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Ted McCormick

@tedmccormick.bsky.social wrld.org

Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal

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Ted McCormick 4d

they're calling it Roko's Glenn Close

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

just a tool though

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Ted McCormick 4d

just a tool though

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

Anthropic warns its new AI could develop feelings for you, send unsolicited messages, show up at your spouse's workplace, acquire the address of your children's school, watch them in the playground from behind a hedge while tightly grasping a set of keys you recently misplaced

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Ted McCormick 1w

wrote about this a while ago, not sure I feel any differently now

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1w

who's up for some transferable skills

memoriousblog.com

The Illusion of a Future

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Ted McCormick 1w

who's up for some transferable skills

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1w

our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

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