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Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…
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Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…
#Pluralistic 1/
Today (3/9), I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.
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Thread: “Early cities in the Dawn of Everything: Shoddy scholarship in support of pedestrian conclusions.” Paper to appear soon in a special issue of Cliodynamics. This is a paper, not a book review. I’ll mainly use a bunch of quotes from my paper. #DawnOfEverything 1/13
2/ “The book of full of errors of citation and argument, which suggests that authors are more interested in persuasion – pushing a set vision of the past – than in scholarly or scientific analysis and argumentation.”
3/ “This ‘pull-an-analogy-out-of-a-hat’ method is not a proper use of ethnographic analogy for archaeological interpretation.” See Alison Wylie’s works on how to do analogy in archaeology (or my paper: onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i…
