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The Costs of Metacognitive Offloading
For centuries, Western culture trusted in humanism, the belief that reason and education would civilise humanity.
 • Jonathan Boymal
GenAI’s Rewrite of Everyday Performance
“And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of…
 • Jonathan Boymal
Exit, Voice, Loyalty and Beyond
First proposed in his 1970 book, economist Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty framework offers a seminal model for analysing organisational…
 • Jonathan Boymal
The Geometry of Meaning
With LLMs, meaning arises from the residues of language use, statistical traces left by patterns of co-occurrence.
 • Jonathan Boymal
Educating in a World Without Closure
We are entering a world where the smallest and cheapest of tools can destabilise the strongest of systems.
 • Jonathan Boymal
The Human Work of Learning
One of the fundamental differences between human learning and machine learning is data-efficiency.
 • Jonathan Boymal
The Hidden Lives of Summaries
A recent survey of Australian university students found that over 50 per cent were using generative AI to summarise course readings.
 • Jonathan Boymal
The Last Analogue
The Last Analogue
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