Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science(reason.com)

405 points by Bostonian 1 year ago | 746 comments

Reason opinion piece by Jesse Singal arguing that Scientific American's departing editor made the magazine ideologically biased, undermining trust in science.

Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom(reason.com)

307 points by mooreds 10 months ago | 154 comments

Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future(garryslist.org)

26 points by gmays 8 months ago | 24 comments

Why Is Panera Exempted from California's New Minimum Wage Law?(reason.com)

34 points by everybodyknows 2 years ago | 15 comments

Homeschooling hits record numbers(reason.com)

263 points by bilsbie 11 months ago | 704 comments

Michigan anti-porn bill would criminalize ASMR, written erotica(reason.com)

8 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 0 comments

Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising(stanfordreview.org)

57 points by docdeek 1 month ago | 42 comments

Stanford Review article reporting that Stanford's Residential & Dining Enterprises used AI to alter students' race in promotional images.

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study(law.stanford.edu)

379 points by berlianta 4 months ago | 327 comments

Stanford Law School press release on a blind study where law professors preferred AI-generated answers to student legal questions over answers written by fellow professors.

California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education(edsource.org)

356 points by nradov 3 years ago | 212 comments

EdSource article on California's effort to bar Stanford researchers who received state education data from giving legal testimony, which the ACLU says violates the First Amendment.

Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?(chronicle.com)

18 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 36 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay by Allison Stanger arguing analytical academic writing should be judged by quality rather than whether AI helped write it.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.

California bans legacy admissions at private universities(nytimes.com)

535 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 563 comments

New York Times article reporting that California has banned legacy admissions preferences at private universities such as Stanford and USC.