@anecdotal.bsky.social
AI is disrupting higher ed: how can we be ahead? Writing at https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com. Former Dean of Humanities & now Special Advisor for Humanities & AI at UUtah. Former Dean @ Sonoma State University. PhD Princeton, MPP Harvard KSG
@anecdotal.bsky.socialColleges need to stop teaching abstractions. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/colleges-n...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialReposted by @anecdotal.bsky.socialSome propositions about the aesthetics of looking at buildings.
1. A beautiful encounter should not require recollection.
2. An aesthetic theory should not require the job of picturing.
3. Remembering an experience and reproducing it .... hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-i-look...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialSome propositions about the aesthetics of looking at buildings.
1. A beautiful encounter should not require recollection.
2. An aesthetic theory should not require the job of picturing.
3. Remembering an experience and reproducing it .... hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-i-look...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialMeanwhile at University of Utah... dailyutahchronicle.com/2026/09/21/p...
@robsica.bsky.socialReposted by @anecdotal.bsky.social😺"Some people want a kind of boy scouts program to counter 'brain rot' and 'cognitive decline.' Jonathan Haidt’s four proposed norms call for keeping kids away from smartphones and social media, advocating 'more independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world.' Basically boy scouts."
@anecdotal.bsky.socialH.G. Wells has had an outsized influence on how people think about evolution, about how technology (like AI) will turn us into helpless, hairless blobs. Humans will be fine. There is no Brain Rot. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/darwin-and...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialMost student born after 2006 have never held a dictionary in their hands. Never understood the weigh of words and they are There for the using, as tools. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/aristotle-...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialConfused about the story about the OpenAI agent swarms and the Hugging Face incident in the news? Look no further. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/just-one-m...
@chriswarren.infoReposted by @anecdotal.bsky.social4/ Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social likens PRoB to a "revitalizing spa for the mind." pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialI would love any feedback and critique however negative. I’m writing a follow up.
@anecdotal.bsky.socialThat "big five" personality test was never robust and it is the worst possible instrument for giving AI a personality.
@anecdotal.bsky.socialReposted by @anecdotal.bsky.socialThere's no envelope when you're chatting with an LLM. There's no presumption of privacy at all. The medium is eating the message. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-singul...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialThere's no envelope when you're chatting with an LLM. There's no presumption of privacy at all. The medium is eating the message. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-singul...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialReposted by @anecdotal.bsky.socialIf you saw that viral Talenti gelato piece you know what I'll be saying about higher education. Quality has declined but nobody notices because of the nice packaging.
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/what-if-wi...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialThose Uncivil people seem nice but their better argument is there's no scholarship in civility. @uncivil-s.bsky.social . Also read @ryanequinn.bsky.social piece today. So good. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
@micarlson.bsky.socialReposted by @anecdotal.bsky.social@anecdotal.bsky.social that old dilemma of texts & reception
@anecdotal.bsky.socialIf you saw that viral Talenti gelato piece you know what I'll be saying about higher education. Quality has declined but nobody notices because of the nice packaging.
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/what-if-wi...
@anecdotal.bsky.socialThis is an excellent point I will quote you feel free to say it on the other sites too
@mariorustan.bsky.socialReposted by @anecdotal.bsky.socialYes, you might have said this in the piece but it's interesting that while in the 1970s computer research was the pride of universities, and to some degrees biotech and robotics are for today's university, but nobody shares excitement in AI research. Also nice footnote on the public phones.
@anecdotal.bsky.socialColleges & universities are successfully saying 'no' to AI. Whether that's a win or not is up to you.
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