@DirtyWaterHotDog's banner p

DirtyWaterHotDog

in an abusive relationship with you lot

5 followers   follows 0 users  
joined 2022 September 05 16:31:20 UTC

				

User ID: 625

DirtyWaterHotDog

in an abusive relationship with you lot

5 followers   follows 0 users   joined 2022 September 05 16:31:20 UTC

					

No bio...


					

User ID: 625

Question, are you using Opus 4.8 Max ?

People's experience with claude is heavily dependent on which model you use.

This is all great for experienced faculty: at least in theoretical disciplines they can already greatly speed-up the research process without spending more or time on pesky grad students with the bonus that Claude doesn't mind if you're mean to it. For younger faculty, postdocs, and graduates students not so much.

100%. I see this exact pattern in coding as well. Senior engineers are empowered, junior engineers create more slop and headaches.

and slowly but probably surely, the pyramid scheme of Academia will collapse.

Pyramid schemes, by definition are immune to touching grass. They are fraudulent from day 1. It's like saying "now that we found a fully intact fossil of a dinosaur, support for creationism will collapse". If the pyramid scheme of Academia was to collapse, it would have happened by now.

In both scenarios, academia has basically signed its own death wish. For the reward of extremely high-productivity for very AI-savvy professors over the next few years, the system that brought us so many world-altering discoveries will basically be dismantled.

Every layer of abstraction takes you away from the raw experience of the science itself. It's like playing football by mashing buttons in Fifa.

I worry about a 'medium is the message' style collapse of science. Scientists will only investigate topics that feel amenable to ai-agents. In such a world, computation gets reduced to combinatorics. I hate it. In a real numbers shaped world, AI would never intent complex numbers. In a classical physics world, AI would never suggest a relativistic model. These are not combinatoric outcomes. They're ...... 'romantic'. Ai-agents are another step in what's a century long erosion of romance from science. (statistics -> RCTs -> computers -> internet -> ai).

Is it doxxing if Franco publicly replied to him on twitter ? Sounds like the kid has realized that anti-semitism is very cool in ivy-league colleges right now and doubling down will be rewarded.

experiences with Jews were not “pleasant,” after a NYC startup he had applied to reached out

I can't imagine that a 19 yr old kid from a Virginia exurb has had many 'experiences with Jews'. He's spent 1 year at Cornell (admittedly very Jewish) after transferring from Virginia tech. When would he have worked for Jews before to have formed such a strong opinion ? Sounds like programming more than genuine experiences.

Cynically, the kid is from Virginia and studies labor relations at Cornell. That screams 'I want to be a future politician', and antisemitism is table stakes for 19 year old college populists.

In my experience, it is quite difficult to tell liberal college-aged Jews apart from their white counter parts. And the Jews at liberal schools are usually the anti-Israel kind.


Quoting myself from 2 months ago

Conventional politics of the future is antisemitic. There is bipartisan agreement on it among the youth.