Sweet! Being pissed off at tech bros is better for my gym routine then thrash metal, as it turns out. Looking forward to listening in the morning.

In the words of Steve Gaines, "You got that right!"

It's real fun at universities these days. I feel like Galileo telling Paul V that the geocentric model is wrong when arguing that tech CEOs overstate everything and that, currently, we have a neat app that boils a lake for a ppt outline.

This is killing me, lol. Of course ChatGPT tells you it was wrong! It’s programmed to be obsequious to the user. I’ve tested it on questions where I knew the answer, had it give the same “I’ll get it right this time” response and then continue to give wrong answers.

I have to spend so much time double checking it that it’s faster to just do it for scratch. There is no way I’d trust technology that can’t even consistently give the same answers for a regression model and will make up citations regularly with my career.

I’m really surprised to hear someone as intelligent as Brian also be so credulous of AI’s ability to do research. Doing research is a big part of my job, and while AI streamlines some things and can be really useful for getting started, it’s is completely untrustworthy for generating research.

Definitely gave me a research idea which might actually be novel enough that I am hesitant to post it, lol.

Good stuff.

Cool. So we've hit the era where our foreign policy is the equivalent of an older sibling holding a younger sibling down, hitting them in the face with the younger's own hands, and yelling, "Stop hitting yourself!"

Some centuries you just get lucky I guess.