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  1. A quotation from Pynchon

    If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

    Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) American novelist
    Gravity’s Rainbow, Part 2 “Un Perm’ au Casino Harmann Goering” (1973)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pynchon-thomas/15755…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pynchon #thomaspynchon #answers #misdirection #misleading #paranoia #questions

  2. A quotation from Pynchon

    If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

    Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) American novelist
    Gravity’s Rainbow, Part 2 “Un Perm’ au Casino Harmann Goering” (1973)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pynchon-thomas/15755…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pynchon #thomaspynchon #answers #misdirection #misleading #paranoia #questions

  3. A quotation from Pynchon

    If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

    Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) American novelist
    Gravity’s Rainbow, Part 2 “Un Perm’ au Casino Harmann Goering” (1973)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pynchon-thomas/15755…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pynchon #thomaspynchon #answers #misdirection #misleading #paranoia #questions

  4. A quotation from Pynchon

    If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

    Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) American novelist
    Gravity’s Rainbow, Part 2 “Un Perm’ au Casino Harmann Goering” (1973)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pynchon-thomas/15755…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pynchon #thomaspynchon #answers #misdirection #misleading #paranoia #questions

  5. How to know if you can trust an AI’s answer to your question

    It might be useful to sort AI answers into an ‘answer typography’ of four broad types: factual, interpretive, constructive, and strategic

    justpaste.in/news/how-to-know-

    #ArtificialIntelligenceAI #Features #answer #question #answers

  6. Came in over the transom: AI Zeitgeist. “The same question can produce a different view of the world after a model update. We asked seven GPT releases 18 questions about power, global threats and the decade ahead, collecting 15,120 answers. Explore where their answers agree, where they change direction, and which differences hold when we ask again.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/23/ai-zeitgeist/
  7. Came in over the transom: AI Zeitgeist. “The same question can produce a different view of the world after a model update. We asked seven GPT releases 18 questions about power, global threats and the decade ahead, collecting 15,120 answers. Explore where their answers agree, where they change direction, and which differences hold when we ask again.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/23/ai-zeitgeist/
  8. Came in over the transom: AI Zeitgeist. “The same question can produce a different view of the world after a model update. We asked seven GPT releases 18 questions about power, global threats and the decade ahead, collecting 15,120 answers. Explore where their answers agree, where they change direction, and which differences hold when we ask again.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/23/ai-zeitgeist/
  9. Came in over the transom: AI Zeitgeist. “The same question can produce a different view of the world after a model update. We asked seven GPT releases 18 questions about power, global threats and the decade ahead, collecting 15,120 answers. Explore where their answers agree, where they change direction, and which differences hold when we ask again.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/23/ai-zeitgeist/
  10. Came in over the transom: AI Zeitgeist. “The same question can produce a different view of the world after a model update. We asked seven GPT releases 18 questions about power, global threats and the decade ahead, collecting 15,120 answers. Explore where their answers agree, where they change direction, and which differences hold when we ask again.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/23/ai-zeitgeist/
  11. #LLMs make poor #teachers because they were never #studemts.

    #story time.

    I'm part of a #team of #volunteer co-teachers teaching #Python to #HighSchool students remotely over Zoom. But that's only the #process. The goal is to grow other-subject teachers into #ComputerScience teachers by teaching them along with their students.

    This week, our students are learning how to use the input() function to get information from the user. The project is to write a program that introduces itself as a #genie and asks the user for three #wishes, then prints out the wishes. Our classroom teacher was thinking how he could do it in a loop. Because he learned that when previous classes had studied #loops.

    We discussed that this was one of the reasons that volunteers were expected to do the work we are assigning to students using only what the students had been taught. So we could help them better when they encountered problems.

    And this right here is a big problem with LLMs as teachers. These models are trained, but they don't learn like we do. They were given all the #answers as part of their #training #data. When they cannot find an answer, they don't try to determine the answer by replicating the steps that students are taught — they make a #statistical #guess based on their training data.

    Worse yet, they are incapable of actual learning from their #errors.

    And "errors" is the correct term. "#Hallucinations" are a subset of errors that involve the #perception of nonexistent stimuli. #Techbros use this term because it sounds nice to them. Like, "I was high, and I had this awesome idea," instead of, "I'm just making shit up so I sound like I know what I'm doing." The latter is how they engage with the world, because they prioritize #confidence over #correctness. Which is a very bad look for a teacher.

    There are legitimate uses for LLMs in #education, but none of them are as personal tutors.

  12. #LLMs make poor #teachers because they were never #studemts.

    #story time.

    I'm part of a #team of #volunteer co-teachers teaching #Python to #HighSchool students remotely over Zoom. But that's only the #process. The goal is to grow other-subject teachers into #ComputerScience teachers by teaching them along with their students.

    This week, our students are learning how to use the input() function to get information from the user. The project is to write a program that introduces itself as a #genie and asks the user for three #wishes, then prints out the wishes. Our classroom teacher was thinking how he could do it in a loop. Because he learned that when previous classes had studied #loops.

    We discussed that this was one of the reasons that volunteers were expected to do the work we are assigning to students using only what the students had been taught. So we could help them better when they encountered problems.

    And this right here is a big problem with LLMs as teachers. These models are trained, but they don't learn like we do. They were given all the #answers as part of their #training #data. When they cannot find an answer, they don't try to determine the answer by replicating the steps that students are taught — they make a #statistical #guess based on their training data.

    Worse yet, they are incapable of actual learning from their #errors.

    And "errors" is the correct term. "#Hallucinations" are a subset of errors that involve the #perception of nonexistent stimuli. #Techbros use this term because it sounds nice to them. Like, "I was high, and I had this awesome idea," instead of, "I'm just making shit up so I sound like I know what I'm doing." The latter is how they engage with the world, because they prioritize #confidence over #correctness. Which is a very bad look for a teacher.

    There are legitimate uses for LLMs in #education, but none of them are as personal tutors.

  13. #LLMs make poor #teachers because they were never #studemts.

    #story time.

    I'm part of a #team of #volunteer co-teachers teaching #Python to #HighSchool students remotely over Zoom. But that's only the #process. The goal is to grow other-subject teachers into #ComputerScience teachers by teaching them along with their students.

    This week, our students are learning how to use the input() function to get information from the user. The project is to write a program that introduces itself as a #genie and asks the user for three #wishes, then prints out the wishes. Our classroom teacher was thinking how he could do it in a loop. Because he learned that when previous classes had studied #loops.

    We discussed that this was one of the reasons that volunteers were expected to do the work we are assigning to students using only what the students had been taught. So we could help them better when they encountered problems.

    And this right here is a big problem with LLMs as teachers. These models are trained, but they don't learn like we do. They were given all the #answers as part of their #training #data. When they cannot find an answer, they don't try to determine the answer by replicating the steps that students are taught — they make a #statistical #guess based on their training data.

    Worse yet, they are incapable of actual learning from their #errors.

    And "errors" is the correct term. "#Hallucinations" are a subset of errors that involve the #perception of nonexistent stimuli. #Techbros use this term because it sounds nice to them. Like, "I was high, and I had this awesome idea," instead of, "I'm just making shit up so I sound like I know what I'm doing." The latter is how they engage with the world, because they prioritize #confidence over #correctness. Which is a very bad look for a teacher.

    There are legitimate uses for LLMs in #education, but none of them are as personal tutors.

  14. #LLMs make poor #teachers because they were never #studemts.

    #story time.

    I'm part of a #team of #volunteer co-teachers teaching #Python to #HighSchool students remotely over Zoom. But that's only the #process. The goal is to grow other-subject teachers into #ComputerScience teachers by teaching them along with their students.

    This week, our students are learning how to use the input() function to get information from the user. The project is to write a program that introduces itself as a #genie and asks the user for three #wishes, then prints out the wishes. Our classroom teacher was thinking how he could do it in a loop. Because he learned that when previous classes had studied #loops.

    We discussed that this was one of the reasons that volunteers were expected to do the work we are assigning to students using only what the students had been taught. So we could help them better when they encountered problems.

    And this right here is a big problem with LLMs as teachers. These models are trained, but they don't learn like we do. They were given all the #answers as part of their #training #data. When they cannot find an answer, they don't try to determine the answer by replicating the steps that students are taught — they make a #statistical #guess based on their training data.

    Worse yet, they are incapable of actual learning from their #errors.

    And "errors" is the correct term. "#Hallucinations" are a subset of errors that involve the #perception of nonexistent stimuli. #Techbros use this term because it sounds nice to them. Like, "I was high, and I had this awesome idea," instead of, "I'm just making shit up so I sound like I know what I'm doing." The latter is how they engage with the world, because they prioritize #confidence over #correctness. Which is a very bad look for a teacher.

    There are legitimate uses for LLMs in #education, but none of them are as personal tutors.

  15. #LLMs make poor #teachers because they were never #studemts.

    #story time.

    I'm part of a #team of #volunteer co-teachers teaching #Python to #HighSchool students remotely over Zoom. But that's only the #process. The goal is to grow other-subject teachers into #ComputerScience teachers by teaching them along with their students.

    This week, our students are learning how to use the input() function to get information from the user. The project is to write a program that introduces itself as a #genie and asks the user for three #wishes, then prints out the wishes. Our classroom teacher was thinking how he could do it in a loop. Because he learned that when previous classes had studied #loops.

    We discussed that this was one of the reasons that volunteers were expected to do the work we are assigning to students using only what the students had been taught. So we could help them better when they encountered problems.

    And this right here is a big problem with LLMs as teachers. These models are trained, but they don't learn like we do. They were given all the #answers as part of their #training #data. When they cannot find an answer, they don't try to determine the answer by replicating the steps that students are taught — they make a #statistical #guess based on their training data.

    Worse yet, they are incapable of actual learning from their #errors.

    And "errors" is the correct term. "#Hallucinations" are a subset of errors that involve the #perception of nonexistent stimuli. #Techbros use this term because it sounds nice to them. Like, "I was high, and I had this awesome idea," instead of, "I'm just making shit up so I sound like I know what I'm doing." The latter is how they engage with the world, because they prioritize #confidence over #correctness. Which is a very bad look for a teacher.

    There are legitimate uses for LLMs in #education, but none of them are as personal tutors.

  16. 🟨 **NYT Connections Hints & Answers (#1189) – Today’s Puzzle, Sep 12**

    Stuck on today’s Connections puzzle? 🧩
    Get helpful hints for all four categories, plus the answers for Puzzle #1189.

    ⚠️ **Spoilers ahead!**

    👉 Read the full guide:
    ricguides.com/nyt-connections-

    #NYTConnections #Connections #Puzzle #WordPuzzle #Hints #Answers #RICGuides

  17. 🟨 **NYT Connections Hints & Answers (#1189) – Today’s Puzzle, Sep 12**

    Stuck on today’s Connections puzzle? 🧩
    Get helpful hints for all four categories, plus the answers for Puzzle #1189.

    ⚠️ **Spoilers ahead!**

    👉 Read the full guide:
    ricguides.com/nyt-connections-

    #NYTConnections #Connections #Puzzle #WordPuzzle #Hints #Answers #RICGuides

  18. 🟨 **NYT Connections Hints & Answers (#1189) – Today’s Puzzle, Sep 12**

    Stuck on today’s Connections puzzle? 🧩
    Get helpful hints for all four categories, plus the answers for Puzzle #1189.

    ⚠️ **Spoilers ahead!**

    👉 Read the full guide:
    ricguides.com/nyt-connections-

    #NYTConnections #Connections #Puzzle #WordPuzzle #Hints #Answers #RICGuides

  19. 🟨 **NYT Connections Hints & Answers (#1189) – Today’s Puzzle, Sep 12**

    Stuck on today’s Connections puzzle? 🧩
    Get helpful hints for all four categories, plus the answers for Puzzle #1189.

    ⚠️ **Spoilers ahead!**

    👉 Read the full guide:
    ricguides.com/nyt-connections-

    #NYTConnections #Connections #Puzzle #WordPuzzle #Hints #Answers #RICGuides

  20. NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy
    #president #establish #academy #answers

  21. NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy
    #president #establish #academy #answers

  22. NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy
    #president #establish #academy #answers

  23. NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy
    #president #establish #academy #answers

  24. NASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy
    #president #establish #academy #answers

  25. Turkish naval drone seeks answers from Cyprus ferry wreck

    ISTANBUL: A Turkish navy vessel equipped with a deep-diving drone arrived off northern Cyprus on Tuesday, seeking answers…
    #EuropeSays #Turkiye #Türkiye #answers #CYPRUS #drone #ferry! #from #naval #seeks #Turkish #Wreck
    europesays.com/turkiye/46069/

  26. Why is it so unreal that nobody has contacted you #MissKitty since nobody knows who the fuck you are, right!? It's true, but by now they should have cuz I personally #messaged so many important people with #answers they should have been glad to receive and wanted to know more. That's why. 🔦🔦🔦

  27. YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE PEOPLE THE #ANSWERS....

    @aral / #AralBalkan

    " If you want people to understand, really understand, YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE THEM THE ANSWERS,

    You have to CONFRONT THEM,
    TORTURE THEM WITH THE HORRIFYING #QUESTIONS "

    #Batman [2022] #Quote #FILM #Truth
    #Clip by #CollectiveTruth

  28. YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE PEOPLE THE #ANSWERS....

    @aral / #AralBalkan

    " If you want people to understand, really understand, YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE THEM THE ANSWERS,

    You have to CONFRONT THEM,
    TORTURE THEM WITH THE HORRIFYING #QUESTIONS "

    #Batman [2022] #Quote #FILM #Truth
    #Clip by #CollectiveTruth

  29. YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE PEOPLE THE #ANSWERS....

    @aral / #AralBalkan

    " If you want people to understand, really understand, YOU CAN'T JUST GIVE THEM THE ANSWERS,

    You have to CONFRONT THEM,
    TORTURE THEM WITH THE HORRIFYING #QUESTIONS "

    #Batman [2022] #Quote #FILM #Truth
    #Clip by #CollectiveTruth

  30. @DjityDjity "Stop paying tax" has to be the answer in our history at some point

    Here and fucking now ...

    Stop paying the #bastards and# robbers robbing others,

    Can't give them #money and #expect #State and #Banks to do different.

    No way around it, don't fund it / fund it le$$.

    #Tax #Solution #Answers
    #Revolt #Boycott #Revolution

    Original Tax Pic = #RichardMurphy

  31. @DjityDjity "Stop paying tax" has to be the answer in our history at some point

    Here and fucking now ...

    Stop paying the #bastards and# robbers robbing others,

    Can't give them #money and #expect #State and #Banks to do different.

    No way around it, don't fund it / fund it le$$.

    #Tax #Solution #Answers
    #Revolt #Boycott #Revolution

    Original Tax Pic = #RichardMurphy

  32. @DjityDjity "Stop paying tax" has to be the answer in our history at some point

    Here and fucking now ...

    Stop paying the #bastards and# robbers robbing others,

    Can't give them #money and #expect #State and #Banks to do different.

    No way around it, don't fund it / fund it le$$.

    #Tax #Solution #Answers
    #Revolt #Boycott #Revolution

    Original Tax Pic = #RichardMurphy

  33. @DjityDjity "Stop paying tax" has to be the answer in our history at some point

    Here and fucking now ...

    Stop paying the #bastards and# robbers robbing others,

    Can't give them #money and #expect #State and #Banks to do different.

    No way around it, don't fund it / fund it le$$.

    #Tax #Solution #Answers
    #Revolt #Boycott #Revolution

    Original Tax Pic = #RichardMurphy

  34. @DjityDjity "Stop paying tax" has to be the answer in our history at some point

    Here and fucking now ...

    Stop paying the #bastards and# robbers robbing others,

    Can't give them #money and #expect #State and #Banks to do different.

    No way around it, don't fund it / fund it le$$.

    #Tax #Solution #Answers
    #Revolt #Boycott #Revolution

    Original Tax Pic = #RichardMurphy

  35. @ashwin #Answers:

    3/ I think #lineage can reduce possessiveness and acquisitiveness - to a similar degree that we have it stamped and forced in today.

    But it needs a similar kind of #love "#force" which might in the opposite #spectrum of the #extreme (where you "must" share) while being softer in "#enforcement" (#guidance / #moderation / #testing).

    And perhaps always being customisable by #individuals after also, according to where they are and their #different #selves / personalities.

  36. @ashwin #Answers:

    3/ I think #lineage can reduce possessiveness and acquisitiveness - to a similar degree that we have it stamped and forced in today.

    But it needs a similar kind of #love "#force" which might in the opposite #spectrum of the #extreme (where you "must" share) while being softer in "#enforcement" (#guidance / #moderation / #testing).

    And perhaps always being customisable by #individuals after also, according to where they are and their #different #selves / personalities.

  37. @ashwin #Answers:

    3/ I think #lineage can reduce possessiveness and acquisitiveness - to a similar degree that we have it stamped and forced in today.

    But it needs a similar kind of #love "#force" which might in the opposite #spectrum of the #extreme (where you "must" share) while being softer in "#enforcement" (#guidance / #moderation / #testing).

    And perhaps always being customisable by #individuals after also, according to where they are and their #different #selves / personalities.

  38. @ashwin #Answers:

    3/ I think #lineage can reduce possessiveness and acquisitiveness - to a similar degree that we have it stamped and forced in today.

    But it needs a similar kind of #love "#force" which might in the opposite #spectrum of the #extreme (where you "must" share) while being softer in "#enforcement" (#guidance / #moderation / #testing).

    And perhaps always being customisable by #individuals after also, according to where they are and their #different #selves / personalities.

  39. @ashwin #Answers:

    3/ I think #lineage can reduce possessiveness and acquisitiveness - to a similar degree that we have it stamped and forced in today.

    But it needs a similar kind of #love "#force" which might in the opposite #spectrum of the #extreme (where you "must" share) while being softer in "#enforcement" (#guidance / #moderation / #testing).

    And perhaps always being customisable by #individuals after also, according to where they are and their #different #selves / personalities.

  40. @ashwin #Answers:

    2/ #Shared #responsibility is for all people to do (I was going to say "should be for all people to do" but I think it "is" because we have a natural and human effect on all simply by existing).

    Not just #polycules, #polyamory, etc - All humans having a wider #consideration / #responsibility / #respect - incrementing as time goes on.

    [not sure what #Plato suggested specifically but yes I think upgrading to the above covers this probably as more-responsible humans]

  41. @ashwin #Answers:

    2/ #Shared #responsibility is for all people to do (I was going to say "should be for all people to do" but I think it "is" because we have a natural and human effect on all simply by existing).

    Not just #polycules, #polyamory, etc - All humans having a wider #consideration / #responsibility / #respect - incrementing as time goes on.

    [not sure what #Plato suggested specifically but yes I think upgrading to the above covers this probably as more-responsible humans]

  42. @ashwin #Answers:

    2/ #Shared #responsibility is for all people to do (I was going to say "should be for all people to do" but I think it "is" because we have a natural and human effect on all simply by existing).

    Not just #polycules, #polyamory, etc - All humans having a wider #consideration / #responsibility / #respect - incrementing as time goes on.

    [not sure what #Plato suggested specifically but yes I think upgrading to the above covers this probably as more-responsible humans]

  43. @ashwin #Answers:

    2/ #Shared #responsibility is for all people to do (I was going to say "should be for all people to do" but I think it "is" because we have a natural and human effect on all simply by existing).

    Not just #polycules, #polyamory, etc - All humans having a wider #consideration / #responsibility / #respect - incrementing as time goes on.

    [not sure what #Plato suggested specifically but yes I think upgrading to the above covers this probably as more-responsible humans]

  44. @ashwin #Answers:

    2/ #Shared #responsibility is for all people to do (I was going to say "should be for all people to do" but I think it "is" because we have a natural and human effect on all simply by existing).

    Not just #polycules, #polyamory, etc - All humans having a wider #consideration / #responsibility / #respect - incrementing as time goes on.

    [not sure what #Plato suggested specifically but yes I think upgrading to the above covers this probably as more-responsible humans]