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dan_gee

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    > I think that LLMs are going to wreck the peer review system for all but hard-experimental papers I think I may be shadowbanned, but at what point do we start viewing LLMs as a na…

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    Unfortunately I think that we need to be much more judgmental than is tolerated on this forum if we want to get people to stop writing with AI assistance. People are not going to s…

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    I didn't see that other comment and I appreciated the presence of the comment in question.

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    My point is that the differences between these models are so minor that obsessively benchmarking them comes across as navel-gazing.

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    I thought the comment was a positive contribution.

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    From my perspective, the primary end-user selling point of LLM assistants is not having to read or write anymore. I think a lot of the "AI Addicts" are masking illiteracy, which is…

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    Moreso what I'm trying to say is that AGI is a return to the eighteenth/ninetheenth century fantasy of slavery as a business model. AGI means cruelty-free robot slaves.

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    Could you leave a comment expressing your perspective?

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    > As I mentioned in this thread the other day, it's not worth debating AI skeptics anymore in 2026 This is pretty rude!

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    IMO AGI is a bold-faced lie, backed by the age-old American fantasy of free labor. The whole concept seems quite ugly to me.

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    If you don't mind sharing, what types of jobs are you working on now? I haven't personally seen a speed boost from LLMs, but my experience with them suggests that they could be eff…

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    Thank you for your comment. The narrative that LLMs are essential to the future of the trade often feels like an assault on my professional expertise. Whatever your experience is, …

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    > Think of all the shops that will soon be composed of people that simply can't even get out of bed, if their LLM is not available. I'm biased because I don't use AI, but I don't u…