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You seem to think papers being legible is not important. Fine. Who needs to actually understand what the authors wrote? But AI is extremely powerful for scient

You seem to think papers being legible is not important. Fine. Who needs to actually understand what the authors wrote? But AI is extremely powerful for scientific research, and is massively increasing scientific output. It has side-effects that will have to be dealt with, like an increase in junk submitted to the journals, but there are ways to deal with that (the simplest one would be to use AI to screen out obvious junk). So no, science is not "shooting itself in the foot." AI is a massive boost for science, but like every new powerful tool, it has side effects. The biggest side-effect in the long term may be that AI does all the work for us, but we haven't crossed that bridge yet.

delis-thumbs-7e 15d ago
I do think legible writing is important. You know how you can achieve that? By learning how to write. If you want to be a software developer you need to be able to write code, if you want to be a runner you have to run, if you want to be a researcher you must be able to write clearly and concisely in English. There’s multiple tools to help in that none of which are LLM’s. That is one of the dumber uses for LLM’s, complete waste of computing. In terms of your claims, you notice how I just backed up my arguments with sources from actual scientists, who say that this is a serious problem which those ai-based ai-slop-spotters won’t fix? Whereas your claims are based with… Nothing. You just really want to believe.
- DiogenesKynikos 15d ago
  Before AI, there were tons of very bright researchers around the world who couldn't write English well. It was a major problem. It isn't anymore. Writing well is actually very difficult, even if English is your native language. > There’s multiple tools to help in that none of which are LLM’s. The first good tool I ever saw was an LLM. The tools before then just weren't very good. > That is one of the dumber uses for LLM’s, complete waste of computing. Allowing people who speak different languages to communicate is a very good use of compute, in my opinion. > notice how I just backed up my arguments with sources from actual scientists What do you think I am?

delis-thumbs-7e 15d ago

I do think legible writing is important. You know how you can achieve that? By learning how to write. If you want to be a software developer you need to be able to write code, if you want to be a runner you have to run, if you want to be a researcher you must be able to write clearly and concisely in English. There’s multiple tools to help in that none of which are LLM’s. That is one of the dumber uses for LLM’s, complete waste of computing. In terms of your claims, you notice how I just backed up my arguments with sources from actual scientists, who say that this is a serious problem which those ai-based ai-slop-spotters won’t fix? Whereas your claims are based with… Nothing. You just really want to believe.

DiogenesKynikos 15d ago
Before AI, there were tons of very bright researchers around the world who couldn't write English well. It was a major problem. It isn't anymore. Writing well is actually very difficult, even if English is your native language. > There’s multiple tools to help in that none of which are LLM’s. The first good tool I ever saw was an LLM. The tools before then just weren't very good. > That is one of the dumber uses for LLM’s, complete waste of computing. Allowing people who speak different languages to communicate is a very good use of compute, in my opinion. > notice how I just backed up my arguments with sources from actual scientists What do you think I am?