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wasn't it thoreau who said "Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short"

personally, I think there's a time and place for short versus long, just like there's a time and place for a 45mins TV episode versus a 2 hour marathon movie.


and when future LLMs are trained on this style, the prose (if I can call it that) becomes even worse?

Academic writing uses words with meaning in very domain specific ways; those in the domain understand it, and those outside find it confusing.

If an AI just randomly throws out domain specific words without that domain's specific meaning, it becomes very painful for everybody to read, and worse still adds a level of ambiguity that defeats the whole purpose of that academic writing in the first place.


Yes it uses domain specific words but that's not the reason why academic writing is painful to read and write.

In addition to all that, I find the quality of writing in average current scientific papers atrocious, too.

Look at some from earlier than mid 80s or so, they are so much better.


Yes, this was a bit of a surprise to read when dealing with crypto: "This one lives in CIRCL's threshold RSA implementation... float64 has a 53-bit mantissa... the result is silently rounded before it is ever cast back to an integer. "

this is numerical methods 101, i.e. why 1+1 != 2

I'm a bit surprised that this is from cloudflare. Anybody from CF care to comment? Is this like prototype/super skunkworks code that somehow made it through?


are you allowed to video them to see whether they can actually do a good job?


-Phone notification- Your chinchilla rug had finished the wash cycle

I don't have a rug... oh wait...


I feel like this is the sort of thing William Gibson should write...


There's a pretty good 2008 Mexican scifi film "sleep dealer" that covers this topic more or less


>> Sleep Dealer depicts a dystopian future to explore ways in which technology both oppresses and connects migrants.[2] A fortified wall has ended unauthorized Mexico-US immigration, but migrant workers are replaced by robots, remotely controlled by the same class of would-be emigrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer

Nice! Thanks!

... I mean not "nice" as in "all that sounds nice" . I mean "nice" as in "nice dystopia".


That would a Microsoft'ese, "Some regions are encountering issues" => "The entire world is down, but our status page is working"


I also see that fitting into the corporate language of Gaslightese.


I've read blindsight and echopraxia, but not starfish, so thanks for the reminder.

If starfish is even despairing than blindsight and echopraxia, then this should be "fun"!


it starts despairing. Then it gets worse.


part of this I understand is survival. And I understand why you do this.

The other part of this is why it's so frustrating for me to find the right person. Everybody's resume looks perfect for the role, and I have to waste 30-45 mins digging into their actual experience. You have done yourself a great disservice by wasting that time sitting in an interview you were not qualified for, and worse still I always feel there are other, more qualified people, who I have missed/passed over their resume since it wasn't AI tuned.

Sincerely, I don't know how t make this better.


I understand your frustration and i hope to have a earnest discussion on this.

One of the 3 jobs require hiring other developers. I don't find it difficult at all. I have my own intuition and technique I rely on. If you are wasting 30~45 minutes on a resume, you are probably chasing the wrong signals. It's not my fault.

> You have done yourself a great disservice by wasting that time sitting in an interview you were not qualified for, and worse still I always feel there are other, more qualified people, who I have missed/passed over their resume since it wasn't AI tuned.

How can I know if I meet the prospective employee's criteria or not before I do the interview? How am I to be held reliable for other people's failure to make themselves visible or your frankly your lack of skill at recruiment?

It's convenient to blame AI for any shortcomings these days but if you don't know what you are doing, you were always going to reach for something external something imagined to deflect your own areas that need improvement.


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