Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
- Just published open access, a playful exercise I developed and ran with students: "The Cringe Test: student evaluations of intelligence with LLMs in a Turing Test adapted for classroom use" www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
- My kid’s school ensuring none of its students become humanities PhDs
- A student asked GPT if its summaries of a class text were distorted. It replied “If distortion is inevitable in communication, then maybe my “blurriness” isn’t just a flaw—it’s a mirror held up to how humans process and reshape information every day.”
- Now in Portuguese translation, and open access, an essay Francesco Casetti and I wrote on "Screens": periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/territoriose...
- "In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes." --Theodor Adorno
- why do I have to acknowledge if I used an LLM in preparing the text but my colleagues don't have to note when their spouses and research assistants helped with research and writing ?
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- When I try to make sense of the kind of language produced by large language models (LLMs) I think of Saussure's passing remark that language is a "a machine that will always run no matter the damages that may be inflicted upon it."
- Reposted by Bernard Dionysius GeogheganHOTTE LOCAL SINGLES NEAR UNTO THEE ARE YNTERESTID YN VERNACULAR REWRITINGES OF THE TROY LEGEND, HENDECASYLLABIQUE VERSE, LIGHT FALCONRY, HERBALISM. JOYNE *COURTR* THE BEST APP FOR COURTLYE LOVE.
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- Reposted by Bernard Dionysius GeogheganThe new OpenAI model announced today is quite wild. It is essentially Google's Deep Research idea with multistep reasoning, web search, *and* the o3 model underneath (as far as I know). It sometimes takes a half hour to answer. Let me show you an example. 1/x
- is this genre theory? I think it might be!
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- I was filling out a social security form in Swedish. I had to check one of two boxes. Google Translate renders the two options as (a) I am a decent (b) I am a cretin
- I haven't gotten much out of this website. Is there something I should do to make it more interesting?
- I like this line by Bob Dylan from the Rolling Thunder Revue movie: “When somebody’s wearing a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth. When he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.”
- ‘I’ is a linguistic convention to facilitate communication and should not be interpreted as a sign of self-awareness or consciousness. --ChatGPT
- A structuralist analysis of the bong, as differential ordering of the binaries fire and water, earth and air—and the functional role of the universal taboo on drinking the bong water.
- wrote and recorded some new lectures on LLMs
- The best concert I've seen in the last 20 or so years was KRS-One in Berlin, around 2014 or 2015, in a small club in Berlin. His charisma, elegance, poise, power, rhythm, timing, musical sensibility was off the charts -- like James Brown at the Apollo. If you get a chance, go see him.
- Foucault v Twitter: those who have found a new tone, a new way of looking, a new way of doing, will never feel the need to lament that the world is error, that history is filled with people of no consequence, and that it is time for others to keep quiet so the sound of their disapproval may be heard
- one of the best books in media studies this year! a tour de force in blue humanities
- For those who don't know me, a quick intro to my work! This is Deepwater Alchemy, published this year via @uminnpress.bsky.social! You can grab a copy and hear me talk about it on The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social and the UMN Podcast under the extras here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791594...
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- Hubert Dreyfus on what Heidegger suggested as an alternative to life in the thrall of modern technology: "Heidegger holds that we must learn to appreciate...practices such as friendship, backpacking into the wilderness, and drinking the local wine with friends." #EcoHeidegger #CrunchyBeing
- Proud to have slipped a "Weekend at Bernie's" reference into my essay on AI. Criticism would benefit from fewer invocations of puppets, marionettes, and epiphenomena, to allow for more lively shootouts to great comedic corpses.
- "Criticism that hands down sentences sends me to sleep." --Michel Foucault
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