Faculty work products including syllabi and their research should be considered work-for-hire and owned by the public, since we pay their salaries.

I’ll take the bait. I’m guessing you don’t pay state tax in Kansas, so you don’t pay my salary. I’m totally down with anyone in the state reading my stuff, though.

> I’ll take the bait. I’m guessing you don’t pay state tax in Kansas, so you don’t pay my salary. I’m totally down with anyone in the state reading my stuff, though.

With all the federal education grants/aid/what have you, it's hard to imagine that your institution is purely jayhawker funded.

Kansas universities, like other colleges and universities, receive federal funding and student loans.

If anything, it's maybe even more worth doing this in the age of LLMs since "nobody is going to read this" is probably no longer true!

LLMs are likely more attentive readers than most human beings and in a way a blog might achieve even greater reach by virtue of being read by an LLM and incorporated into its "understanding of the world." (Or whatever is the right metaphor.)

Feed the plagiarism machine, make the tech billionaires richer

Fortunately a linkedin user has found a defense mechanism

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ken-cheng-991849b6_ai-will-ne...

As an open source dev, in principle I like the idea that my code is used to train models that help produce other code. The problem is license enforcement.

The cap is also a promise.

Kant said it first! https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-reason/

A professor once told me that if someone asks when a concept was first discussed in philosophy, it's always best to reply "Isn't it in Plato?"

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/innateness-history/#PlaAr...

Not quite, because the brain is an empirical object itself. Kants pure intuitions and categories are before any possible experience. Kant would say we can’t conclude anything certain from the empirical observation of the brain, only that before any empirical observation we have those a priori intuitions and categories.

If that's so, then we're back to Nietzsche's Perspectivism. The experiment is limited by what the experiment entails.

How often is the "news content" misrepresenting its sources?

AGI achieved internally.

Sounds profoundly anti-humanist.

What you mean by "humanist" does not seem to be what philosophers mean by it.

Sounds like "memetics" gives agency to writing as a thing independent of human beings doing writing, which is an interesting frame but also untrue.

Ideas don't die. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/introductory-antimemetics

Yeah, well, that's just how the humanism meme wants to instrumentalize you at this moment.

This is a good way for these books to signal what they are like to their readership (bad).

> Also, because of the expensive infrastructure that can only be used by trams, there’s a permanence there that prevents future politicians from ripping it out to put more cars on for a quick political win with drivers.

This is definitively not true. It's something people said about the Washington, DC streetcar and it turns out they are about to remove the streetcar in order to replace it with buses:

https://www.railwaygazette.com/light-rail-and-tram/dc-street...

I would have hoped it was clear that I never stated infrastructure was never ripped out, since there have been numerous examples of this happening, including my own home city. I’m merely making the point that tearing up tram lines is more costly than simply paying someone to cut paint lines off the road. That plus the initial investment creates an inertia against undoing it, though nothing prevents politicians pissing public money up the wall if they’re determined enough.