This post is an interview with Steven Pinker that appeared in the Harvard Gazette. Here's a link to the original. Pinker points out the downside of AI. The core problem is that it's not based on knowledge of how things work but on a massive ingestion of text. This allows AI to figure the probability of … Continue reading Steven Pinker — Will ChatGPT Replace Human Writers?
This post is a 2007 piece by Malcolm Gladwell published in the New Yorker. Here's a link to the original. In this piece, the author does a full Gladwell. He runs through the social science literature about a topic around an intriguing interpretive angle. Here the issue is to figure out what IQ really measures. … Continue reading Malcolm Gladwell on What an IQ Test Really Measures
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 