Dominic Nyhuis

Fair. ChatGPT has no incentive to keep people from asking silly questions.

I like (1) in that it is clear about what it is trying to test but that's also irrelevant to me. Just because a good chunk of users asks silly questions doesn't invalidate the software. As for (2), all questions work consistently that prompt the software to provide considerations for a problem.

I would also add that there are plenty of use cases where it's not about giving "correct" answers at all.

I find it so silly seeing so many articles that claim X percent of ChatGPT answers are wrong. I can create a test where it gets 100 percent of the questions wrong. To me, that's an irrelevant metric. It's on users to understand what good questions are to ask of AI, what good use cases are.

So do we think Trump would bail out the banks?

Plus, that can't possibly be the best alternative they could have come up with...

Reading term papers, it occurs to me that there is a massive disconnect between everyone being worried that all student submissions are written by AI and the quality of the papers that I get to read... If students are using AI, I wish they would use it better...

So we're all in agreement that copy-editing is dead, right?

What a profound blessing it is if you can stay optimistic/positive these days

It’s a profound tragedy of our time how many people are apparently angry all the time.

I just learned that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between good and bad children's paintings by pecking at the good ones. Brutal.

Sure. But they also fail the statistics exam, so mixed messages on how much faith we should place in them...

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Man kann Pepe mit einer Excel-Datei incentivieren...

I keep hearings that there is a lack of blood donors. Would it be unethical for blood donation organizations to advertise by saying that donating blood reduces PFAS levels in the blood? Seems more effective than advertising by appealing to citizenship.

I don't know. I'm just assuming that it would be lower but I have no sense by how much.

Presumably, Tesla is no small part of the US auto-making sector? So, wouldn’t we want to know how much the sector is down without Tesla being part of that figure?

It occurs to me that an e-scooter is the vehicle equivalent of a vape in terms of sex appeal.

Is there any other service like academic publishing where the brand name is all that matters and the quality of the service is absolutely irrelevant?

How is it possible that despite having ungodly amounts of money, no major journal publisher has been able to develop a decent eproofing platform?

I have a really interesting political science puzzle, to which I don't have a good answer at all. Can somebody please set up the Journal "Political Science Puzzles", so I can get that published?

Investment Bankers are a thing, ya know?

Sam halt nur noch auf Polymarket…

We gotta stop saying "this lack of political professionalism shouldn't happen in times of the AfD". It's setting an impossible standard for the messiness of real world politics and it strengthens the bizarre reading that somehow anything less than perfect is a validation of the AfD

You’re right, of course and I should have been more specific. What I meant was that it’s the most self-explanatory symbol that doesn’t occurred naturally.

Arrows are the most self-explanatory symbols that have no basis in the physical world

The contemporary political right makes a much greater effort to develop a coherent theory for their project, something that was historically true for the left.

I guess my Marxist training wouldn’t allow me to assume that media conglomerates are left-leaning, but you might be right…

Do we have a sense that popular TV shows have become more conservative in the last couple of years? No, right? Isn't there a surprising disconnect between culture and society/politics at the present moment? And should we expect TV to become more conservative now?

Why aren’t there any successful parties of (new) ethnic minorities in Europe? Shouldn’t there be a market?

Exactly!! Tenure is no time to play it safe!