Inference and Experience
A guest post by Patrick Robbins
Culture
Anecdotal Value.
Observations informed by having paid attention for a long time.
Recent essays
30 of 67You Are Protesting the Wrong Technology, People!
Canvas is why students prefer AI to you.
Why the left should lend a hand to those widowed and orphaned civics centers
Hint: they too have been asking for small classes & great books
We Raise you $100,000, Matt...
(because no public university president can vouch for graduates today)
What Is Teaching Without Knowledge?
Especially in the AI era
Colleges need to teach last-mile knowledge
Come down from the ladder of abstraction
How I look at buildings, with aphantasia
A photograph is not a substitute
Darwin and AI
Relax. Humans are not degenerating.
Aristotle and AI
Before tokens, words
“After the University” (Review)
On Chad Wellmon’s newest higher ed book
Just one more thing....
What Columbo might say about the Hugging Face postmortems...
Teaching the Ocean to Swim
Why LLMs keep failing their Big Five personality tests
The Medium Eats the Message
The Singularity is Post-Privacy
What a Time to Be an Agent!
Anthropic’s agents assumed the worst of each other. My new paper explains why.
What if Wirecutter Rated Universities?
It might be the end of the shell game
DeepMind and The Visualizer's Fallacy
DeepMind's eye was never the mind
Universities would prefer not to.
AI and the degree monopoly
The Zoë: Life Abundant Conference report
Fertility, longevity, blood, and post-Vatican II aesthetics in Napa
The Miasma Theory of Education
The knockoff educational product economy (Part 2)
Look on my Outcomes, ye Mighty and despair
The knockoff educational product economy (Part 1)
Two new ways to see your university
The first AI instruments arrive
Stereotype Threat
Inference and prejudice
Why Can't a Model Be More Like a Man?
Everybody's Alfred P. Doolittle now
Let Us Now Praise Famous Shape Rotators
Aristotle was wrong
How to Listen to a Tarantino Movie
Starting with "Django Unchained"
Amor Fati Entropy
Attention is all you lack
AI and the DMZ
What I learned at SAIPCON 2026
For Whom the Bell Curves
AI may explode how students are evaluated
*The One and the Ninety-Nine* [review]
Luke Burgis's moving new book
From the Athens of Veracruz to ChatGPT
Norma Sancho on the emptiness of online education