Brainwavez
6hr ago
Agreed if the journal doesn't say.
My general opinion on AI-assisted works is: OK, as long as the authors don't hide or lie about it, and the target doesn't explicitly disallow it.
Brainwavez
6hr ago
I was thinking busy rich people, disabled people, and college students on meal plans in dorms without kitchens.
Brainwavez
7hr ago
Agreed, fresh meat (or tofu) + steamed frozen vegetables + rice + sauce is a perfect meal.
My understanding is
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Prices differ in different regions of the US. $20 to feed a rural family a quality meal may be easy in a rural town but impossible in a big city.
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Food and housing have significantly increased in price since 2020. Under Trump the rate hasn’t further increased, but nor has it decreased. Have salaries increased to match? At least tech have not, but they were high to begin with; I don’t know other fields, but the general vibe I hear isn’t good.
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Healthcare is also fucked. I don’t know if it increased but regardless it’s absurd.
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Telling people “the general economy is great”, when they specifically are struggling to afford things, is useless at best. Whoever credibly promises to help those people will win their vote. “It’s the economy, stupid.”
ETA: almost everyone should learn to cook. It’s not only cheaper and healthier but tastier; or you can get frozen vegetables, canned meat or beans, and garnish (e.g. hot sauce), and make bland food that is very cheap, very fast, healthy, and requires barely any equipment.
Brainwavez
12hr ago
If the journal explicitly states no AI writing, I think it counts as something bad, because AI writing causes issues even when it’s not noticeable (such as model collapse). It’s not like a calculator because there’s not one correct way to phrase something.
I would be glad if it’s normalized that AI-generating a public statement reflects badly on the “speaker”. Unfortunately I predict we’ll be seeing it more from many of today’s “leaders”, who previously used ghostwriters.
Brainwavez
13hr ago
As a laptop person, I’m confident LLMs are useful, but under no illusion they’re useful for everyone and everything. Not even for myself, because I don’t in fact just sit and work on my laptop all day.
Likewise, even very non-technical people can benefit from LLMs, for example by placing an LLM between themselves and the modern bureaucracy (forms, customer service complaints, legal issues, medical diagnoses etc.).
This may be a hot take here, but I’d much prefer the mainstream becoming 2010s era Reddit (and old Something Awful) than what has happened, Reddit becoming “mainstream”.
They may have been ugly and cringe, but they were fun and libertarian. Mainstream would benefit from more of that. Now Reddit is ugly, cringe, prudish and miserable.
Brainwavez
3d ago
ASI would be smart enough to coerce humans without resorting to slavery.
For context, Google has long been trying to compete with the big AI labs, and failing spectacularly. Ironic for the company that discovered/invented the transformer, Gemini is regarded as much worse than ChatGPT and Claude, and they keep making embarrassments, for example bad AI overviews in search (the article is >2 years old but it still occasionally happens).
So this past week OpenAI has solved multiple Erdos problems, and all Google has made is this silly feature.
Brainwavez
5d ago
Sure that's impressive, meanwhile Google's AI is letting you fabricate satellite images (was, they removed it after coming to their senses).
Brainwavez
5d ago
Now, what do you figure is the outcome if you tell the Japanese that thing about reptilian overlords?
Godzilla
I'm talking about you sending an LLM to talk to the LLM customer service, or work through the convoluted website.
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