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[?]Kirsty » 🌐
@AdminKirsty@infosec.space

RE: tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/1160

Deeply flawed practice needs to end… does more harm than good…

Well doh

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    [?]Anthony » 🌐
    @abucci@buc.ci

    Regarding the ideological nature of what's at play, it's well worth looking more into ecological rationality and its neighbors. There is a pretty significant body of evidence at this point that in a wide variety of cases of interest, simple small data methods demonstrably outperform complex big data ones. Benchmarking is a tricky subject, and there are specific (and well-chosen, I'd say) benchmarks on which models like LLMs perform better than alternatives. Nevertheless, "less is more" phenomena are well-documented, and conversations about when to apply simple/small methods and when to use complex/large ones are conspicuously absent. Also absent are conversations about what Leonard Savage--the guy who arguably ushered in the rise of Bayesian inference, which makes up the guts of a lot of modern AI--referred to as "small" versus "large" worlds, and how absurd it is to apply statistical techniques to large worlds. I'd argue that the vast majority of horrors we hear LLMs implicated in involve large worlds in Savage's sense, including applications to government or judicial decisionmaking and "companion" bots. "Self-driving" cars that are not car-skinned trains are another (the word "self" in that name is a tell). This means in particular that applying LLMs to large world problems directly contradicts the mathematical foundations on which their efficacy is (supposedly) grounded.

    Therefore, if we were having a technical conversation about large language models and their use, we'd be addressing these and related concerns. But I don't think that's what the conversation's been about, not in the public sphere nor in the technical sphere.

    All this goes beyond AI. Henry Brighton (I think?) coined the phrase "the bias bias" to refer to a tendency where, when applying a model to a problem, people respond to inadequate outcomes by adding complexity to the model. This goes for mathematical models as much as computational models. The rationale seems to be that the more "true to life" the model is, the more likely it is to succeed (whatever that may mean for them). People are often surprised to learn that this is not always the case: models can and sometimes do become less likely to succeed the more "true to life" they're made. The bias bias can lead to even worse outcomes in such cases, triggering the tendency again and resulting in a feedback loop. The end result can be enormously complex models and concomitant extreme surveillance to acquire data to feed data the models. I look at FORPLAN or ChatGPT, and this is what I see.


      [?]petersuber » 🌐
      @petersuber@fediscience.org

      Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long thread on in academic .
      twitter.com/petersuber/status/

      Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on .

      Here's a rollup of the complete Twitter thread.
      resee.it/tweet/125298113985535

      Here's a nearly complete archived version in the @waybackmachine.
      web.archive.org/web/2022090813

      Watch this space for updates.


      @academicchatter

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        [?]petersuber » 🌐
        @petersuber@fediscience.org

        Update. New study using to assess referee reports: "Female first authors received less polite reviews than their male peers… In addition, published papers with a female senior author received more favorable reviews than papers with a male senior author."
        elifesciences.org/articles/902

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          [?]Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel: » 🌐
          @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca

          The 4 biases of health influencers

          // Article in French //
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          Les 4 biais des influenceurs•euses en santé

          sciencepresse.qc.ca/actualites

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          [?]Wen » 🌐
          @Wen@mastodon.scot

          It is remarkable what sort of news the BBC do not wish to cover. I don’t watch their television so must take that on trust, but looking at the BBC news site, this is not even touched upon. Hunger strikes in NI, and more recent ones, yes, but this no. I do wonder who the corporation represents - it certainly is not most of the UK.

          archive.today/2025.12.08-20160

          The report linked - a picture of the BBC HQ - the title suggest a protest, there is one person there, text reads BBC slammed for not covering Palestine prisoners' hunger strike

          Alt...The report linked - a picture of the BBC HQ - the title suggest a protest, there is one person there, text reads BBC slammed for not covering Palestine prisoners' hunger strike

          The result of a search for hunger strike on the BBC news site - not a word of this

          Alt...The result of a search for hunger strike on the BBC news site - not a word of this

            [?]Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 » 🌐
            @benroyce@mastodon.social

            Yup, that's the 😒 😒 😒

            Alt...A group of people present fictional, preposterous but unfortunately credible New York Times OpEd titles that betray a disgusting bias https://www.instagram.com/xiandivyne

              [?]Pablo Martini (Geezer) » 🌐
              @PabloMartini@climatejustice.social

              BBC boss Tim Davie & head of news Deborah Turness resign amid bias claims over Trump doc & BBC Arabic coverage.

              Symbolic shake-up, or real reform?

              Grift pot empty?


              thewhipline.substack.com/p/bbc

                [?]Wen » 🌐
                @Wen@mastodon.scot

                A very very English view of trust in the BBC.

                I don’t believe the writer of this comment piece is aware of the deep distrust many people in Scotland exhibit to the corporation with increasing numbers giving up their licenses. It is NOT a British broadcasting organisation, it is a biased unionist mouthpiece despite some excellent drama and factual programs. Just don't mention independence.

                theguardian.com/media/2025/nov

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                  [?]Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 » 🌐
                  @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca

                  No more progressive voice from Teen Vogue

                  journa.host/@w7voa/11548853255

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