@lukeburgis I agree that blanket “ban AI” is mostly a category error. But the deeper question is upstream: whether universities, as custodial institutions of truth-recognition, can still do their ancient work amid a larger civilizational crisis of trust, representation, and shared reality.
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13/ The civilizational snafu is that truth can remain available but still be unusable—because what’s collapsing is the common ground where truth can bind. The medium loses its claim to carry reality and the public loses a core civic ability—so even truth can’t do its social work. 14/ This is classic media ecology: when mediation becomes infinitely plastic, representation loses its authority. The entire Media Picture fractures. And once the frame of mediation shatters, it can’t be unshattered. Credibility collapses as a category, not just case by case.
@JoshHochschild @jeff_bilbro 2/ This isn't stupidity or bad faith speaking, but professional deformation shaped by thinking in first-order terms—the engineering frame—rather than of second-order effects—interpretation succumbing to a phase shift in the invisible habitat constitutive to sense-making itself.
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