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Most of the keys aren't working for me in Firefox though :-(

A massive overpriced laptop with a novelty touch feature on its monitor gets free promotion on HN. Ah well.

LLM-authored website convinces you to waste time and energy on chatting with an LLM when struggling to survive.

I asked ChatGPT what it thinks about this situation and it told me LLMs can diagnose skin cancer, so there.

> Doing original research is not generating value for the institution, so they wouldn’t get paid

It is the _main_ activity which "generates value" for an institution, whose primary goal is conducting research.

> Grading is part of what it means to be a TA,

Checking students' homework is part of what it means to be a TA. Grading is a choice the university makes; it's absence makes one no less of a TA.

> being a TA is not some awful exploitation

It's certainly exploitation. For some TAs, who get overworked and lorded over, and in universities when the pay is low, it's awful exploitation. For most TAs it is 'regular' exploitation of getting a crappy salary for serious highly-skilled work.

This motivation is why, when I was in grad school, I never liked handing out grades. I would have rather just marked the problems I found with a HW submission, added notes where appropriate, and that's it. If no grade is given, it is obvious that you have provided the student the service of reading and checking their work, rather than allowed them to increase their 'score' or collect 'points'.

Check the commits they make for their "releases" and you'll see what I mean. I won't spoil it for you.

Don't you mean that the pointy-haired bosses will force people to "adopt AI" because not adopting it is "stupid", then claim success?

> the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.

I wonder if the argument cannot be made that it has delivered little payoff in tech as well - in terms of actual stable revenue vis-a-vis the immense capital investments, the deep loans, the circular commitments etc.

Well, they might also like a word with all of the scientists and students who make sure their papers are available online, despite Springer's draconic requirements. But that word is no longer heeded. Well, for the most part.

> Personally, I feel that I am at least a third slower reading AI-generated text, even if the length is the same.

I've been reading an AI-generated technical proposition. It was even slower for me.

> Beyond this, most models are extremely verbose, which makes total reading time much higher.

Painfully true. When I took a semster of law studies and got my first homework assignment, I was flabbergasted by how short the submission length limits were. I could barely write an introduction to my mini-paper with that number of pages! And I was expecteds to cover everything, and have an explicit conclusion, and a complete and meticulous bibliography. I struggled sooo much to be more concise and to let go of less-critical points I wanted to make! But it was a great intellectual and rhetorical exercise.

So, when I start the game - I don't understand what my purpose even is. That is, what do I want to be doing? Even if I choose an implicit goal - increase my apporval percentage for example - the best I have is some vague metric of cocerns, and the main concern is "neighborhood change", when: (1) I haven't changed anything yet! and (2) The only thing I can even do is propose more neighborhood change. And I'm not even sure the thing to is aim for increasing my approval rating. So, I feel stumped before ever have taken a single action.