Rajvardhan Oak

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Rajvardhan Oak

Rajvardhan Oak

@oak_raj

AI Safety @ Meta Tweets reflect my views, not those of my employer !

Katılım Aralık 2009
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@deliprao Would we also expect employees to carry some burden if they quit, while their employer finds a replacement?
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@ahall_research Will a vibe-coded website pass compliance checks? I’m assuming FERPA comes with strict compliance rules (and penalties).
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Andy Hall
Andy Hall@ahall_research·
A vibe-coded open website + a WhatsApp group chat could replace 99% of Canvas's functionality for ~free, and it would be better for everyone. And I suspect we could vibe code up the assignment and quiz features quite quickly. Now's a good time for universities to reassess their ed-tech stack.
Damon Linker@DamonLinker

So ... Canvas is down. Every reading this semester, as well as every Powerpoint for my lectures (made available to students so they can study for their final on Monday), as well as every grade and submitted assignment, is on Canvas. Dead in the water here in academia right now.

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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@pangramlabs Don’t you mean: It’s not just a slop tweet — it’s a slop paper.
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Pangram Labs@pangramlabs·
Not only is this tweet slop, the paper it's misquoting is also almost entirely AI-generated. Slop on slop on slop.
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Elara Grace@ElaraGrace_AI

🚨Just IN: If you've used ChatGPT for writing or brainstorming in the last 6 months, your creative ability may already be permanently damaged. A controlled experiment just proved the effect doesn't reverse when you stop using it. 3,302 creative ideas. 61 people. 30 days of tracking. Researchers split students into two groups. Half used ChatGPT for creative tasks. Half worked alone. For five days, the ChatGPT group outperformed on every metric. Higher scores. More ideas. Better output. AI was making them better. Then day 7. ChatGPT removed. Every creativity gain vanished overnight. Crashed to baseline. Zero lasting improvement. But that's not the bad part. ChatGPT users' ideas became increasingly identical to each other over time. Same content. Same structure. Same phrasing. The researchers called it homogenization. Everyone using ChatGPT started producing the same ideas wearing different clothes. When ChatGPT was removed, the creativity boost disappeared -- but the homogenization stayed. 30 days later, same result. Their creative range had been permanently compressed. Five days of use. Permanent damage 30 days later. A separate trial confirmed it. 120 students. 45-day surprise test. ChatGPT users scored 57.5%. Traditional learners scored 68.5%. AI reduces cognitive effort. Less effort means weaker encoding. Weaker encoding means less creative raw material. You're not renting a productivity boost. You're financing it with your originality. The interest rate is permanent.

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Mads
Mads@madsf88·
i made strava for coffee. i was on a mission to find the best coffee in nyc and started tweeting my ratings. figured everyone else should be able to do the same. rate cafes, share them, & see where your friends are going
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Max Spero
Max Spero@max_spero_·
@jgray23 it's not just the em dash -- it's this specific kind of phrasing
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@Sam14_irshad @gabriberton Yes, 100%. But also, an AI-written paper may be more impactful than the human-written one. Given an idea, the ‘story’ that it writes may be better than the one a human researcher writes.
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Samra (Sam)
Samra (Sam)@Sam14_irshad·
@oak_raj @gabriberton The thing is novelty and impact does not solely come from results, it’s the way you have written your piece. Impactful writing takes time, unless your goal is to just get a paper published in a top-tier conference that no one would like to read or cite afterwards.
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@krismicinski I like the courses like yours that will have a small % of the grade for attendance. But to not allow students to take the final without a certain attendance (like the OP) etc seems stupid.
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Kristopher Micinski -- REBORN
Kristopher Micinski -- REBORN@krismicinski·
@oak_raj But that’s not why students skip class. Sure, we both feel that students who are good should be able to skip arbitrarily, which is why I recommend a liberal attendance policy with little points (but nonzero). Vast bulk of low-attendance students are not doing well (in my case).
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
If students keep up with assignments, exams why does it matter if they come to class or not? Also, mandatory attendance just means students spend time daydreaming, napping, catching up on other work in your class. They’re paying zero attention to you.
Hilda Hernández@hildherlo

Pues no doy clases en Harvard, sino en universidad que se sostiene del $ público. Ustedes defienden el ausentismo a secas sin ver que, en el sistema público, es despilfarro de recursos. La educación pública no es un regalo, es un derecho y, como tal, implica responsabilidades.

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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@krismicinski No doubt that it makes the class more engaging. But is there any evidence to show that it has a net benefit to those who didn’t want to attend? Those who could keep up with the class either way?
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Kristopher Micinski -- REBORN
Kristopher Micinski -- REBORN@krismicinski·
@oak_raj I use in-class question answering apps and use these to take attendance, then I show anonymized student answers in class: no identity revealed at any time. Has made class much more engaging and really helped with attendance, allows me to focus the course to where students are at.
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@hildherlo Why do you care if someone attends your lectures or not? If they can keep up with the class, assignments, exams, then the lectures are probably not adding much value to them.
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Hilda Hernández
Hilda Hernández@hildherlo·
Soy profesora en universidad pública y sí paso lista porque el 85% de asistencia es requisito para derecho a examen. Tampoco soy nana, pero sí educo a futuros profesionistas que deben respetar reglas institucionales. Ni hablar que reciben educación gracias a recursos públicos.
Arturo Damm Arnal@ArturoDammArnal

No paso lista en mis clases. Soy profesor de economía, no nana de niños. Que cada quien haga, con su tiempo y el dinero de sus padres, lo que le dé la gana. Se llama libertad. Llama la atención que, de la pandemia en adelante, cada vez es mayor el ausentismo en clases.

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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@ckayerawlings @pigeon_clown In that case you may want to look for careers other than at a magazine….? Because the salary offered to you seems close to the median salary in NYC (without controlling for education and YoE)
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gal debored@ckayerawlings·
@pigeon_clown Yes. Being able to feed my kid, pay rent, not worry about mounting utilities, and have a savings account is more important than working at a magazine
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@gwoyeuromatzyh Why should he? He earns his money fair and square, if he wants to spend it on a fifth yacht, who are you to stop him? No one can be told how to spend their own money.
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@aldatweets Businesses should be able to charge whatever they want. Consumers should frequent businesses they can afford. Coffee isn’t an essential or basic right.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
Daniel Aldana Cohen@aldatweets·
There’s a lot of big thingd I want from a big green state. But the small thing I want is banning coffee shops from charging extra for plant milk.
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Srajan
Srajan@_Creation22·
The job market is brutal right now Even someone with 23 years of experience in Oracle is finding it hard to get a job
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@Spiralhetre @cafreiman But the store did not force you to work for them. They pay you what is required by law (I’m assuming). If you have better options, you switch — that’s how capitalism works, right?
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Spiralhêtre
Spiralhêtre@Spiralhetre·
@cafreiman Pretending workers freely "want" to accept jobs ignores our complete lack of reserves. We sell our time out of sheer survival, and that store exists to extract profit from our exhaustion. Debating the morality of shoplifting just obscures the daily coercion of wage labor.
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Rajvardhan Oak
Rajvardhan Oak@oak_raj·
@BrendanNyhan @JoshuaYLevy @BrendanNyhan I am really curious as to how this works in the long-term. If people do start having comparable success with legal advice from AI (and I’m not saying they WILL), what does that even mean for the world?
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