Unlike me, the historian lists his entries not chronologically but alphabetically:
Abstraction
Ad fontes
All Publicity is Good Publicity
Analogy
Anecdote
Anchoring Effect
Appeal to Authority
Apples and Oranges
Archaeological Visibility
Argumentum ad baculum
Argumentative Theory of Reason
Art Historian’s Dilemma
Authoritarian Teleology
Autobiographical Heuristic
Auxiliary Sciences of History
Availability Bias
. . .
Lots of good stuff there–just click on the link.
It is a sentence like this which makes one realize how skimpy one’s education is:
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“I don’t know if any Latin Christian writers emphasized that Tamurlane was a shepherd (he was actually born to a wealthy and influential father, and the only sheep he herded were the ones he was stealing, but nobody in England knew Farsi or Turkish).”
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On the other hand, working the above into a conversation might be worth the effort.
That big “NO AI” badge is funny. Is anti-AI the new virtue signalling?
It was only 250 px wide but my WordPress theme has layout issues on iPads. I just tested this 200 px wide version which no longer projects into the main column. There are lots of smart people writing about American LLMs as a political and economic project from the polite and academic (Timnit Gebru, Adam Becker) to the very frank and pointed (tante, Baldur Bjarnason, David Gerard, Valerie Veatch) if you want to know more about why many of us want to kill them with fire.
Will:
I don’t like the use of “virtue signaling” as an insult. First, I think that virtue is good, not bad. Second, if someone’s doing something virtuous, I don’t think it’s bad for them to signal it.
I also think it helpful to indicate eg, whether a podcast transcript is by humans or computers, or a graphic is by redrawing in Photoshop or plugging a scan into a diffusion model, because the two produce different types of error. I don’t think I have told readers whether they should use LLM systems for specific tasks, but I like to be honest where things come from.