

In commenting, we did not disclose that an AI was used to write comments, as this would have rendered the study unfeasible.
If you canāt do your study ethically, donāt do your study at all.
In commenting, we did not disclose that an AI was used to write comments, as this would have rendered the study unfeasible.
If you canāt do your study ethically, donāt do your study at all.
Congratulations on your discovery of the concept of web forum moderation. Bye now.
Buh bye now.
OK, this isnāt about AI slop, but it is complaining about Wikipedia. Its article about that kind of āamnesiaā named by gobshite Michael Crichton is shoddily sourced and seemingly in violation of the siteās policies.
Even setting aside the fact that Crichton coined the term in a climate-science-denial screed ā which, frankly, we probably shouldnāt set aside ā yeah, itās just not good media literacy. A newspaper might run a superficial item about pure mathematics (on the occasion of the Abel Prize, say) and still do in-depth reporting about the US Supreme Court, for example. The causes that contribute to poor reporting will vary from subject to subject.
Remember the time a reporter called out Crichton for his shitty politics and Crichton wrote him into his next novel as a child rapist with a tiny penis? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Iām going to take the fact that this was downvoted independently by all three site admins as sufficient reason to escort this commenter to the egress.
That Wikipedia article is impressively terrible. It cites an opinion column that couldnāt spell Sokal correctly, a right-wing culture-war rag (The Critic) and a screed by an investment manager complaining that John Oliver treated him unfairly on Last Week Tonight. It says that the āGell-Mann amnesia effect is similar to Erwin Knollās law of media accuracyā from 1982, which as I understand it violates Wikipediaās policy.
By Crichtonās logic, we get to ignore Wikipedia now!
Also on the BlueSky-o-tubes today, I saw this from Ketan Joshi:
Used [hugging face]'s new tool to multiply 2 five digit numbers
Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours
Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy)
NOT THE (PORK-FILLED) BEES!
Is that the tomato scale guy?
āThe man in the glowing rectangle is Mark Kretschmann, a technology enthusiast who has grown out of touch with all but the most venal human emotions. Mark is a leveller, in that he wants to drag all people down to his. But as Mark is about to discover, thereās no way to engineer a prompt for a map out of⦠the Twilight Zone.ā
Vacant, glassy-eyed, plastic-skinned, stamped with a smiley face⦠āoptimisticā
I mean, if the smiley were aligned properly, it would be a poster for a horror story about enforced happiness and mandatory beauty standards. (E.g., āNumber 12 Looks Just Like Youā from the famously subtle Twilight Zone.) With the smiley as it is, itās just incompetent.
The only one Iāve met is Carlo Rovelli, at the APS March Meeting in 2019. We work in adjacent topics, but I donāt travel much. I know people who know him better, and I havenāt heard stories of him being horrible, for whatever thatās worth. He does come across as a bit of an eager self-promoter. I can easily imagine him accepting an invitation on the āa gigās a gigā principle.
āColumbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ācheat on everythingāā
https://bsky.app/profile/hypervisible.bsky.social/post/3lne5zqaxyc2c
Yep, heās been operating in obvious bad faith since the conceptual penis days, at least.
But Iām not going to repeat what what I said about that bullshit here before already
Yeah, I didnāt write at truly Rationalist length about it, but I did spend longer than was healthy.
An lesswrong:
countless articles that have ruined careers, stifled research, and brought entire fields of inquiry into undeserved disrepute.
uh-huh
An different lesswrong:
LLMs can provide reasonable fact-checks.
Christ on a futa dick
The closest I could find to an official statement is at the bottom here:
We are under advisement from counsel not to discuss any ongoing litigation in public at this time. Weāll let you know the status of the current issues when we are able to. Your patience and understanding are most appreciated.
Further up the page, an IP editor says that another user is probably TW; the user in question has since been blocked for āban evasionā. Dunno what thatās about.
Dan Olson finds that āAI overviewsā are not as constant as the northern star.
The phrase ādonāt eat things that are made of glassā is a metaphorical one. Itās often used to describe something that is difficult, unpleasant, or even dangerous, often referring to facing difficult tasks or situations with potential negative outcomes.
But also,
The phrase ādonāt eat things made of glassā is a literal warning against ingesting glass, as it is not intended for consumption and can cause serious harm. Glass is a hard, non-organic material that can easily break and cause cuts, damage to the digestive tract, and other injuries if swallowed.
Olson says,
Fantastic technology, glad society spent a trillion dollars on this instead of sidewalks.
(thinks)
(thinks)
I get it!