Christian Miller

Excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, which is out in May and aimed at a general audience! It is also available now for pre-order (link in the below).

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Fantastic. Notre Dame announces that families with incomes under $150,000 will pay zero tuition news.nd.edu/news/notre-dam…

Thanks everyone for the song help for Greed. I had to go with "I Want It Now" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I was able to weave Grande in too when we were questioning whether you could be greedy for things besides money or possessions. Now it is on to Anger...what songs come to mind? Bonus if students know it (and it can be played in a class :)). And has to be better than the classic Carrie Underwood or Alanis Morissette songs, as otherwise I'm going with them.

Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.

Just finished my first interview for the new book, The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World. It was with Mike Pesca for The Gist, the longest running daily news podcast. Already wish I could revise the book! Episode will be out in May. @PescaGist @WakeForestNews

Back from spring break, and time to talk about the vice of greed in my Virtue and Character course. What song do you recommend for opening class? Bonus points for students actually knowing it. And has to be better than "I Want It Now" from Willy Wonka.

THIS WHOLE SEQUENCE. IT IS DEFINITELY MARCH.

@JLSteffaniak The ropes course is the best part in my opinion. Hope you had a good visit!

@CharacterGap We were there last week! Though not the ropes course.

Saturday morning adventure! They are much braver than I am. Having a great time at the Greensboro Science Center ropes course.

More pictures from Spain...

Saturday morning adventure. They are a lot braver than I am! Great day at the Greensboro Science Museum ropes course.

I hate this view of the future with every fiber of my being

Imagine if intel officials told the media that Ukraine was sending intel and drone tech to Iran to help kill US forces. Or that ANY country other than Russia was doing it. Imagine the righteous rage from the Trump admin and the GOP. But when it's Russia, meek little mice.

Back from an incredible four days in Madrid, where I led three seminars on character for the Centre for Character and Human Growth at Villanueva University. Very grateful to the seminar participants and my amazing hosts from the Centre.

@CWoznicki Thanks! And sorry we didn't engage with your new volume. This paper was actually written several years ago. But looking forward to checking it out!

Tolle lege!

“We stole all your knowledge and art, and now we’re gonna put a meter on it and sell it back to you. You’re welcome.”

Instead of a thousand words. This is Kyiv's central square. Each flag represents a fallen Defender who protected Ukraine and Europe from Russia. Eternal memory and eternal glory to Ukrainian Heroes. 📷: kyiv_life_

Ukraine has now provided more military aid to the U.S. this year than the U.S. has provided to Ukraine.

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up. Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math. Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level. And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth. Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do. The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing. So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up. OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product. This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent. Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?