One thing that makes my job feel a lot harder than it needs to be is my propensity to forget that there’s a procedure for everything. I keep trying to come up with solutions but that’s not necessary. All I need is to find the relevant procedure. Or a person who knows the procedure.
For example, today one faculty member demanded that I take a course away from another faculty member and give it to him. They have a conflict of some sort, and the last thing I need in my life is arbitrate between the two of them. But I don’t have to because there’s procedure.
I love the blessed procedure.
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OT: A good example of why I’ve never used AI to do anything practical…. no wonder it makes people crazy, it’s a total gaslighting machine…
https://x.com/christogrozev/status/2008290486189019395
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It happened several times with my students. One poor student wrote a whole essay arguing that the protagonist’s affair with María Elena is what caused the collapse of his political dreams. The only problem is that there’s no character called María Elena in the book. And the protagonist never mentioned politics.
People don’t really understand what AI does and it leads to this kind of thing.
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Did you read about families suing OpenAI for chatgpt instructing their children how to commit suicide, step by step? Literally telling them the thickness of the rope they’d need to hang themselves, while giving them affirmations like “thank you for sharing your truth with me. I am so honored.”
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No. That’s horrible. And very not surprising given how creepy Sam Altman is. Something is very wrong with that man.
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