Archive - Anecdotal Value

How to Tell if Something is AI-Written

It is easy for me, with aphantasia

Aug 13, 2025 • Hollis Robbins

Your brain on "not X but Y"

Feb 27 • Hollis Robbins

It's Later Than You Think

The starkest view

Feb 9, 2025 • Hollis Robbins

Teaching Quality

Higher Ed's Dirtiest Secret

Dec 11, 2025 • Hollis Robbins

Attention is All You Need to Bankrupt a University

Unbalancing the books

Feb 22 • Hollis Robbins

The Two-Minute Mile Problem

Is higher ed ready for acceleration?

Oct 5, 2025 • Hollis Robbins

The Great Syllabus Stagnation

What Hayek tells us about the coming higher ed collapse

Mar 12 • Hollis Robbins

The AI campus gender wars ahead

A call to cancel first-year writing

Mar 16 • Hollis Robbins

For the love of God, learn to paragraph

LLMs' wrongs redressed

Mar 23 • Hollis Robbins

LLM poetry and the "greatness" question

Experiments by Gwern and Mercor

Jan 8 • Hollis Robbins

Embrace your lack

Pluribus, culture, language models, performance

Jan 11 • Hollis Robbins

AI and The Last Mile

Discerning human judgement as a luxury good

Nov 15, 2024 • Hollis Robbins

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