Category Archives: AI

Today in AI Can Make Things Worse: The Texas Censorship Edition

Posted on October 13, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Adam Serwer has an excellent piece on Texas’ censorship on its college campuses. The whole thing is worth a read, but this part seems relevant (boldface mine): Texas Tech’s approach to censorship is notable for being both onerous and clumsy, … Continue reading →

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The Singularity, Such As It Is, Will Be Boring and Mundane

Posted on September 16, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

While the ketamine-addled wunderkind of the tech world are panicking about AI achieving consciousness, the actual harms it is causing, such as denying patients needed pain medication, are very real, if not sexy (boldface mine): The rollout of a Medicare … Continue reading →

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‘AI’, DOGE, and Mediocrity

Posted on February 26, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

A couple of years ago, some asshole with a blog noted: The dirty secret of white-collar and white-collar adjacent professional life is that one has to be very good at mediocre reading and writing (regarding the latter, just look at … Continue reading →

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AI and Theft: The Issue That Has Gone Missing

Posted on February 24, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

A couple years ago, I noted how, if various broligarchs were to steal hard won–and expensive–biomedical data that they then used to build a tool to solve a medical problem like how to turn a clinical bacterial genome sequence into … Continue reading →

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The Superbowl Ads Show How Desperate AI Companies Are

Posted on February 10, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

As expected, the Superbowl ads were heavily focused on ‘AI.’ What struck me is the level of desperation they had. One ad attempted to leverage the supposed cultural cachet that Sam Altman and Elon Musk have, which is… interesting. The … Continue reading →

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AI and Business: It’s About Jobs

Posted on January 15, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Or layoffs actually. A while ago, some asshole with a blog noted: Every day, there’s a new story about how AI is letting bosses lay off workers. Some of this might actually be true, but it’s also about disciplining the … Continue reading →

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LLMs Are an Upgrade to Mediocrity: the Occupation of Chicago Edition

Posted on December 2, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

A while ago, some asshole with a blog noted: But in professional life, there are many who are bad at either reading or writing (or both). This includes people with technical skills and hoity-toity degrees. Not mediocre, but bad. They … Continue reading →

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A Short Thought About ‘AI’ and ‘Tech’

Posted on October 28, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, I came across an article in which the president of Google, who has no medical or biology training, claimed that AI will cure cancer in our lifetime. Leaving aside the silliness of describing any complex machine learning … Continue reading →

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‘AI’ Is Still Very Good at Mediocrity

Posted on August 12, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Yesterday’s post about AI rolled out a day early, so if you missed it, you can find it here. Meanwhile, here is a very pretty front door (Swann St. NW, between 18th and New Hampshire Ave., Dupont Circle):

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‘AI’ Is Very Good at Mediocrity

Posted on August 11, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

The dirty secret of white-collar and white-collar adjacent professional life is that one has to be very good at mediocre reading and writing (regarding the latter, just look at this blog! HARDEE HAR HAR!). These are important skills. One often … Continue reading →

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