Not to go all Reviewer 2 or anything but the only clear thing about this paper is how confused it is

Ok so writing promotion letters does suck but otoh it's just really nice to read email after email from students gushing about how much your colleague's courses have meant to them, so who's to say if they're good or bad actually

Plato must be turning in his grave (that they haven't banned the theatre major).

dudes will refuse to click on links in email for security reasons but raw-dog terminal install anything from a blog that passes the vibe check

I complain a lot about recommendation letters on here but I don't want that to take away from the important fact that promotion letters also suck

(Jerry Lewis eating Chinese food) HOISIN

Reviewers reading my technical appendix:

Kantians in disarray

found a new type of guy to become / cult to join

I stg if the algo tries to get me into this band just one more time

Thank you for your message. I have unlimited access to email, but my will to access it is profoundly limited. And I’m not gonna get in trouble if I don’t

where will she strike next

Forget it Jake, it’s giving Chinatown

The Primagen is Jason Lee for millenials

Sorry this is crass but Rax you are basically describing parenting.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but rather underwent fission into two separate streams of consciousness which we may, for convenience, dub Lefty and Righty...

BlueSky is a website for people who would rather gargle slop by the bucket than take one dainty sip of hatorade

Parked out front of my house rn

blueskyism:

it's delightful

Applying for a $51 million grant to investigate the ethics of $50 million ethics-of-ai grants

The first drafts of some early modern classics are pretty wild:

Finally someone will tell the story of The Odyssey

You can get people to agree with basically anything on here if you market it as ‘here’s why AI is bad’

This is why I prefer the Coen brothers to James Cameron: I control them, they run everything by me first. Sometimes I even say no! I'll spike a project just to keep those pointy-headed twerps guessing

Dudes getting well into their thirties rocks

The rise of the phrase "original character" is a symptom of something dark and terrible

I think the fact that genAI will have ruined all our lives within the decade has made some people on here lose sight of the fact that if used sensibly it can sometimes be useful

I feel like it's just the opposite, at least in my area: they can't do the one really fun, interesting, and valuable part of the job—coming up with novel solutions. But that's also the only really hard part, so they end up being mostly useless.

Does Pluribus ever get around to making a Sentinel Island joke? I'm getting anxious waiting for one

started pluribus, curiously american show, carol 100% wrong of course

Reminder that you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to Freud"

seems like the pig did most of the work

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flotsam & Jetsam

why are the cops twins tho

rip maurice allais you would have loved the paul-joshua fight

Interesting.

Yea I'm an LDS believer (LLM Derangement Syndrome)

academic research is full of tedious tasks that aren’t intrinsically edifying and are hard to do but easy to check/correct, which is kind of the perfect use case for LLMs

It's so weird how LLMs just flip a switch in some people's heads so they completely lose track of the verification/generation distinction

Somehow Searle returned

I've seen the unredacted Epstein files and it's mostly try/catch blocks

I only learned about `clear` last year after 25 years of using Ctl+L, do most people really use `clear`?

Ashby, 28, is a former Scientologist and adult convert to the Russian Orthodox Church. She believes abortion should be illegal, but wildly accessible in “abortion speakeasies.” Ashby’s primary issue is that there’s too much nail art on TikTok. She has a tattoo of J.D. Vance but did not vote in 2024

Another great one with AI Taylor Swift.

The thing about historians is they will tell you very interesting things about the past, but you must ignore all the stupid things they will try to tell you about telling you things about the past (including that you can't make this distinction).

Yea where are the Churchills

Exactly. You should be mad at Time War for being tedious, hackneyed cringe instead

Buddhist functionalists be like