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> being lost to ideological bias.

The currently accepted 'knowledge' framework has been vigorously defended in WP since its beginning. When the label 'pseudoscience' appears in the first few paragraphs, you can usually depend on content highly critical of any threats to the orthodox (if they're even allowed mention).

Academics are more likely to defend the current paradigm. Traditionally, anomalies often go unmentioned in published papers.

All evidence for the existence of meteors was denied for centuries after Newton declared that outer space is empty - until the late 18th century, when ignoring the evidence became too burdensome.

Wihtout getting into the details, I never got a chance to do what I'd wanted to do, professionally, from the time time I was a 5yo until I left for college. It just wasn't in the cards. And I would have been really good at it.

I'm sure there are millions in the world like me. Not too sorry for people who got 5 or 15 or 25 years of opportunity to chase their rainbow.

In math, solutions are always significant.

Good to see & hear Chowning talk about the origins!

The DX-7's lack of patch-cord 'programming' ...replaced by 32 instantly-selectable, well-conceived preset patches in RAM ... was essential in 'democratizing' synthesis. Because it wasn't easy to make new patches, it also jump-started the patch-creation business.

The 16-note polyphony also didn't hurt.

" in 1986, it was used in 40% of the number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100." -- Wikipedia

At one point in my graduate college studies, I tutored qualified (DEI) undergrads 'for free' (for them) as part of a work-study program which paid me a bit for that work.

OTOH, an AI could not have qualified as such a student. But even if it did, before we began I would certainly bargain for considerably more than work-study tutoring paid.

The question's not new. In the early 1900s, women could not become PhD astronomers. Yet two women (Payne with stellar composition and Leavitt with cosmic distances) made fundamental, essential contributions to the science. Credit mostly went to male astronomers. The same might be said of Franklin and DNA.

It was nearly a century before the stories of all of them were revealed to public history. That the discoverers were not all equally rewarded is unjustifiable.

>using LLMs without disclosure is A-OK?

'Without disclosure' is about taking credit for work that isn't yours.

WP defines 'ghostwriter' as: "a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are credited to another person as the author."

Anyone could choose to go through life relying on a reputation manufactured from many lies. They might want to think about how hard that reputation will hit the ground, if it does.

When I zoom in, the right half of the page becomes invisible.

"Safe, clean, too cheap to meter"

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> We Almost Lost Detroit"- Wikipedia

> a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller,[1] presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. ISBN 0883490706

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