読解力に関する統計の問題は根深く、GHQによる1948年の調査からずっと全国的調査は行われていないんですよね https://rmr.ninjal.ac.jp/materials/fo0161/

いつかタワーレコード社にこのレコメンドのことも含めたファンレターを送りたいなと思っています

親に恵まれた若者は国民民主党、そうでない若者は参政党とある。格差やね

A great write-up on the “My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts” article, with some really solid thinking on the linguistic & logical shenanigans in AI hype talk.

On the very likely outcomes of the impacts LLMs are having on software engineers and their craft.

People keep asking me If I use Generative AI tools for coding and what I think of them, so this is my effort to put my thoughts in writing, so that I can send people here instead of having to repeat myself every time I get the question.

One of the major turning points in my life was reading my dad’s copy of Robert Cialdini’s Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion as a teenager. […] But Cialdini’s book was a turning point because it highlighted the very real limitations to human reasoning. No matter how smart you were, the mechanisms of your thinkings could easily be tricked in ways that completely bypassed your logical thinking and could insert ideas and trigger decisions that were not in your best interest.

Interesting article on how modern business theory has re-defined the role of the C-suite leaders, and the consequences thereof.

Automating things, even when it doesn’t save time, is how you learn the skills to automate the things that will.

Arguments against the use LLMs for homework.

What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

Provocative opinion piece.

“Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my feed recently. One undercurrent seems to be the notion that Rust is woke (and should therefore be rejected as part of culture wars).”

We’re going to keep covering this story because, frankly, it’s the only story that matters right now, and one that not everyone manages to see clearly. The political press may not understand what’s happening (or may be too afraid to say it out loud), but those of us who’ve spent decades studying how technology and power interact? We see it and we can’t look away.