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Ah, Lestrade. Watson tells me that your new AI toy Claudi has solved the case of the missing Ethernet cable. Oh, indeed? The Duke of Timberland?

So sorry, Lestrade, but Claudi is wrong. Timberland couldn't have done it, as is obvious to anyone who looks at the actual case with open eyes. Afraid I can't explain further at this moment, terribly busy. But why don't you pay a visit to the Duke's daughter. Ask her about her NeXTcube. Yes, Lestrade, her NeXTcube. Find someone who can explain it to you.

And get rid of Claudi. You don't really need any additional source of blunder and incompetence at the Yard, do you Lestrade?

#SherlockHolmes #HolmesAndWatson #InspectorLestrade #NextCube #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption

Holmes put away his trusted Psion 3a and picked up his pipe. He was in chatty mood.

We can expect some rather amusing chaos to arise at Scotland Yard, don't you think, Watson? Lestrade and his mates are all excited about their new toy, ClaudiSpy. "We won't have to put up with Holmes's capriousness any more! Claudi will do the thinking!" Poor chaps. They have no idea.

Give it a year and Mrs Hudson will be busy fending off their requests to see me. Re-opening cases that got "solved" by jailing the wrong person gives no one any joy.

Well, Sherlock, I should think that you will find some of these cases appealing?

No, Watson, not I.

I solve real cases. I don't clean up the mis-deeds of incompetent predecessors. It's a tedious and boring business. Life's too short. Lestrade will have to find help elsewhere. He could ask Moriarty, for all I care!

My friend truly was in the most peculiar mood that afternoon!

#SherlockHolmes #InspectorLestrade #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption

@johncarlosbaez

"Did Turing ever discuss how well flattery works for winning the imitation game?"

Oh, excellent. You've earned the Pithy Remark of the Year 2026 award.

(Yes, I dare the rest of year to prove me wrong!)

#RichardDawkins #TuringTest #GenerativeNarcicism #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption

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Watching #TheMission (1986) in light of the current AI crisis in #HigherEducation.

The other day I happened to re-watch this 1986 #film by #RolandJoffé. I had last seen it 40 years ago when it came out. It has aged quite well. The depiction of the indigeneous #Guaraní people is embarrassingly superficial. And the idea that the Jesuit order was a benevolent force is of course laughable. But as a story of an institution that willingly sacrifices its purpose and moral integrity in a power game, the film works.

I can't help drawing parallels to the current AI corruption of higher education.

In Cardinal Altamirano (played by the excellent #RayMcAnally), we see the manager who knows that his action destroys the very rationale of his institution, yet he does it. The two priests (Jeremy Irons and Robert de Niro) are the ground-level staff who stay true to their calling and fight, in different ways. They vanish. Years later, the manager has the luxury of regret.

#StopTheAICorruption