gquaggiotto.bsky.social

23 September 2026 09:35

Commuters understand where the system works and where it fails. The question is not whether this knowledge should replace scientific, technical or gov't knowledge. It should not. The question is why it is so often treated as less authoritative theconversation.com/south-africa...

Nils Gilman

nilsgilman.bsky.social

19 May 2026 13:58

My latest substack lays out an idea I've been ruminating on for 30+ years: that long-range demographic projections are basically nonsense, but they are nonsense that persists because it does a particular kind of political work substack.com/home/post/p-...

gquaggiotto.bsky.social

01 February 2026 09:50

UbnutuGuard: a culturally-grounded policy benchmark for equitable AI safety in African languages arxiv.org/abs/2601.126...

gquaggiotto.bsky.social

29 September 2025 07:41

Making consequential choices about an unknowable future is profoundly challenging. The world is not a laboratory. It is a vortex of ambiguity, contingency & competing perspectives, where motives are unclear, evidence contradictory & significance changes www.noemamag.com/the-lost-art...

gquaggiotto.bsky.social

17 September 2025 08:49

A sign of true intelligence, he argues, is the ability to reason towards a goal with minimal inputs – what he calls a “small data, big task” approach, compared with the “big data, small task” approach employed by large language models like ChatGPT www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...