Critics of psychoanalysis say it self-evidently worthless; its defenders say it is self-evidently fundamental. I tackle this description-prescription confusion using Grünbaum, Latour, Popper and Rorty.…
Brasília is a notoriously corrupt city. 72% of federal infrastructure projects seem to be overdue. A R$2.5 million health unit is planned to take a day. A three-year engineering study costs under R$5,000. Someone named Ronald has been testing in production. What does it all mean?…
Compared to non-slop news, slop news is less complex, less varied, and has more positive sentiment.…
A mixed-methods analysis of four AI slop dimensions: themes, types, metaphors, and qualities.…
One of the most salient features of our culture today is that there is so much slop. But what even is AI slop?…
Psychoanalysis has long been accused of being a pseudoscience (Popper, 1963; Meyer, 2011; Pasternak & Orsi, 2021; Ferreira et al., 2022). Despite its influential status in disciplines such as continental philosophy and literary studies, its standing as both science and therapy remains controversial. Critics argue that psychoanalysis does not follow…
It seems that these days every text on artificial intelligence (AI) must begin by talking about the duality of AI: its incredible potential and its terrible danger. We are now at an inflexion point in which technological advancements are measured by months instead of years. The future is uncertain. By…
This post belongs to a series called AI for humanists. The previous post introduced general terminology (such as AI, LLMs, etc). This one is about a specific technology called embeddings and also a brief critique of humanism. We will be talking about the following concepts: * Token * Vector * Matrix * Tensor * Embedding…
