I hate this fucking shit so much. "But think of the potential!"

The purpose of a system is what it does. Full stop.

  • christian [he/him]
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    2 hours ago

    I think this is posted in the wrong comm, the only way you could argue this isn't the correct reaction to a piece of terrible (but completely predictable) news is if you somehow pretend he's not being sarcastic.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 hours ago

      I agree with the top person in that link; the dredge part is what's being responded to there.

      That's why I quoted the dredgeworthy part in the title.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    If Nintendo is allowed to sit on and do nothing with some of their 30 year old IPs, then why the FUCK should anyone share anything with them?

    Thanks porky for showing that crime is a social construct. Literally getting mad at not being able to do piracy, but if you use your one-time purchase of adobe premiere for too long? Freeze dirtbag! That’s stealing!

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    5 hours ago

    Bit idea: Use AI to generate your slop and get that published so AI uses AI generated slop to learn and continuously gets worse

    • iridaniotter [she/her, it/its]
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      3 hours ago

      Yes that's already being done and while it will kill LLMs, it's not very good for people who read or do science.

      • Hexboare [they/them]
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        2 hours ago

        The field really needs to die and be reborn. The journal model is a relic of a time when only 200 million people could read and write.

        Publication output has gone from 1 million in 2000 to 2 million in ~2010, with 3.3 million publications produced in 2022.

        If LLMs heighten the contradictions of the political economy of science and push it towards a new model, I won't be upset about it.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 hours ago

          If LLMs heighten the contradictions of the political economy of science and push it towards a new model, I won't be upset about it.

          In the current system, that only happens if porky-happy can get immediately richer or if he can be convinced that it'll make him richer soon. The contradictions, like in so many other things, are otherwise maintained even at the expense of future profitability.

  • plinky [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    Incredible bit of scientific writing that would produce, and start to self-reinforce.