David Labaree
@DLabaree
Emeritus Stanford professor. History & sociology of US education. Last books are Ironies of Schooling and Being a Scholar. Blog at http://davidlabaree.com.
Why hallucinations are baked into the architecture of Large Language Models (a point also made by @GaryMarcus)
Hallucination is baked into LLMs. Can't be eliminated, it's how they work. @DarioAmodei says LLMs hallucinate less than humans. But it's not about less or more. It's the differing & dangerous nature of the hallucination, making it unlikely LLMs will cause mass unemployment (1/n)
America’s Kids Have Never Been Safer (so why do today's parents not let their kids out of their sight?) by Freddie deBoer open.substack.com/pub/persuasion…
Today's AI models, after being pre-trained on pretty much the entirety of the Web, and fine-tuned to give coherent responses to user questions, are subject to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (somewhere BF Skinner is smiling). The problem is that the binary…
Nice op-ed by Jon Zimmerman in the Chicago Tribune: Why Higher Education Needs Diversity in Viewpoints docs.google.com/document/d/1-1…
Trauma: Beyond Diagnosis and Clinical Treatment open.substack.com/pub/stevenmint…
America’s Kids Have Never Been Safer persuasion.community/p/americas-kid…
The Book That Got Teaching Right (Samuel Freedman) larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/the… via @CubanLarry
Christopher Lasch, Plain Writing, and Democracy providencemag.com/2025/07/christ… via @ProvMagazine
My new blog post is A Sermon on Educational Research. Emerging scholars in education should keep these counter-principles of professional practice in mind: Be wrong; be lazy; be irrelevant; and seek to balance the values of truth, justice, and beauty. davidlabaree.com
My new blog post is A Sermon on Educational Research. Emerging scholars in education should keep these counter-principles of professional practice in mind: Be wrong; be lazy; be irrelevant; and seek to balance the values of truth, justice, and beauty. davidlabaree.com
It is likely that the first half of 2025 has seen the fewest deaths related to extreme weather of any half year in recorded human history. open.substack.com/pub/rogerpielk…
The Internet's Vanishing Memory open.substack.com/pub/stevenmint…
These Scholarly Topics Are Hotly Debated. So Why Don’t Syllabi Reflect That? chronicle.com/article/these-…
My new blog post is an essay by Carly Ann York "In Defense of Silly Science." She argues that basic science, pursued in order to explore an interesting intellectual issue rather than to solve a current problem, is provides enormous social benefits. davidlabaree.com
What do you think people living under feudalism thought of Mondays?
You don’t hate Mondays.. you hate being exploited by capitalism
My new blog post is an essay by Carly Ann York "In Defense of Silly Science." She argues that basic science, pursued in order to explore an interesting intellectual issue rather than to solve a current problem, is provides enormous social benefits. davidlabaree.com
