OpenAI now has a smart LaTeX editor – Prism

Alex Pretti Memorial Ride – Baltimore

Grok is an Epistemic Weapon

• The term epistemic weapon was coined, as best I can tell, by the British philosopher Richard Pettigrew, who uses it as a concept to denote abstract categories like gaslighting or lying. By terming Grok an epistemic weapon I am literalizing the idea in ways perhaps not licensed by Pettigrew, which is also to say I am materializing it in the form of (in this instance) a specific software entity (again, Grok) which has distinctive affordances and behaviors that are grounded in the real world. Notably, just as military hardware requires a “platform” for delivery (a fighter jet or a frigate are both referred to as platforms in this way), so too does Grok, where the platform is of course X.
• Grok’s weaponized status is thus continually honed, if you will, by its algorithmic materiality. It is even now operationally engaged in the management of what users see when they discover and create content on X. We are seeing the functional integration of the model into the platform architecture, such that its decisions and knowledge base act as a form of enclosure, defining the epistemic limits of what is true by way of prioritization, promotion, and monetization for ad sharing, sponsored posts, and more—all of it curated down to the level of individual profiles.

Tasks

• Ping plumber – done, electrician
• Start listing out services
• Pack

SBIRs

• Kicked off the UMAP run for the day
• Class day 3