Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
🖥️ **AI Bubble May Pop — Wiping Out $40 Trillion. Learn What Could Happen And What To Do**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Business #Finance #Debt
**Ambitious parents should aspire for their children to be philosophers**
"_In a world where robots can do almost everything better than us, philosophy may be the last redoubt of the human._"
🔗 https://news.yahoo.com/ambitious-parents-aspire-children-philosophers-181621131.html.
📚 **Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches**
"_As machine-made books flood online marketplaces, a new UK initiative is introducing an Organic Literature stamp to help readers identify books created by real authors_"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Books #Bookstodon
🌎 **What if Christopher Columbus had never reached the Americas?**
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/what-if-christopher-columbus-had-never-reached-the-americas.
🛂 🇺🇸 **US Passport Drops From Top 10 Most Powerful For First Time—Here’s What That Means**
"_More specifically, the United States’ ranking on the Henley index is suppressed by the country’s lack of reciprocity. While American passport holders can access 180 out of 227 destinations visa-free, the U.S. itself allows only 46 other nationalities to enter visa-free, putting it in 77th place on the Henley Openness Index, where it barely outpaces Iraq._"
🖥️ 🇦🇺 **440,000 dollars for copy-paste from AI? Deloitte has to pay back money to Australia!**
**Racism Is Not Innate**
"_Research shows a link between racism and anxiety, insecurity, and lack of a sense of identity._"
🔗 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-of-the-darkness/202510/racism-is-not-innate
**BlackRock’s assets hit record US$13.46 trillion on third-quarter markets rally**
"_Total revenue – most of which is earned as a percentage of assets under management – rose to US$6.5 billion from US$5.2 billion a year ago, driven mainly by the market rally and an 8 per cent growth in organic base fee._"
**When Knowledge Is Free, What Are Professors For?**
"_The lesson for educational leaders is clear: when your core offering becomes free, you don't fight the technology, you find higher ground. In education's case, that higher ground is teaching students not just what to think, but how to think wisely when the stakes are real._"
📖 🇬🇧 **The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag**
🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-union-jack/
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nonfiction #Politics #UKPol #Books #Bookstodon
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How easy is it to "poison" a large language model's data? Much easier than experts previously thought. New research from the Alan Turing Institute indicates that only 250 documents are needed to be inserted in order to manipulate a model's behavior. Here's more from institute's blog, including a link to the original paper.
#Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #DataPoisoning
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Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like
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**The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It**
🔗 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-research-scientists-hype.
**Gold hits US$4,000/oz - trend or turning point?**
🔗 https://www.gold.org/goldhub/gold-focus/2025/10/gold-hits-us4000oz-trend-or-turning-point.
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U.S. supply chain faces another tariff headwind ahead of new port fees
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/us-supply-chain-faces-another-tariff-headwind-ahead-of-new-port-fees.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News @news-thenewsdesk
The figure on #socialmedia engagement and #disinformation is astronomical.
**Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences**
"_We show that optimizing LLMs for competitive success can inadvertently drive misalignment. Using simulated environments across these scenarios, we find that, 6.3% increase in sales is accompanied by a 14.0% rise in deceptive marketing; in elections, a 4.9% gain in vote share coincides with 22.3% more disinformation and 12.5% more populist rhetoric; and on social media, a 7.5% engagement boost comes with 188.6% more disinformation and a 16.3% increase in promotion of harmful behaviors._"
El, B. and Zou, J. (2025) 'Moloch’s bargain: emergent misalignment when LLMs compete for audiences,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.06105.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLMS #ComputerScience #Preprint #Research #Academia
🇦🇺 **Soaring number of Aussies living in poverty, study reveals**
_A new report from the Council of Social Services and UNSW shows one in seven Australians live below the poverty line._
_That's 3.7 million people living on "less than half the median income"._
**When knowing more means doing less: Algorithmic knowledge and digital (dis)engagement among young adults**
"_A new survey of U.S. young adults finds that while higher algorithmic awareness and knowledge are linked to greater concerns about misinformation and filter bubbles, individuals with greater algorithmic awareness and knowledge are less likely to correct misinformation or engage with opposing viewpoints on social media—possibly reflecting limited algorithmic agency._"
Chung, M. (2025). When knowing more means doing less: Algorithmic knowledge and digital (dis)engagement among young adults. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-186
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Survey #SocialMedia #Technology #Tech #Algorithms #Misinformation #Academia
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
