Durian Fiend - So you suspect he's using AI for generating content? MyManao said, "AI generated, absent any human understanding". Perhaps, but my assumption would be that he's using it in other ways, namely "cleaning up" his writing.
Not suspecting, he's talked about using Claude to draft and write his posts and papers on multiple occasions, like this one. (or just go ask your favorite AI for a summary as that seems to be modern currency of the realm)
"...And after extensive dialogue I asked Claude to write up an outline and then the paper itself for a paper I am calling “The American democracy package,”
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Anyway, here’s the paper that Claude wrote after our dialogue.
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[Of course Claude assisted in writing this essay; it did a pretty good job on the first draft, after a little dialogue, but I edited the piece significantly]
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He also compares prompting Claude to divination and claims to have induced Claude with a "jnana yoga approach" to create a similar conversational stance to a "state of Buddha-like calm and wisdom." He also goes on and on, with and about AI, in a long discourse, as one does, after his bufo trip (that's 5-MeO-DMT, or the "Mount Everest of psychedelics" for those not in the know - the chemical structure may be familiar to some for other local reasons).
Like constantly-quotable tech consultant Nick Suresh noted recently:
"In every sufficiently large business we have observed (say, with 500+ employees), we have noted that continued advancement, and increasingly continued employment, has started to require repeated professions of belief in the transformative power of AI for said business. I am not talking about providing ideas about how to use AI in the business – I mean religious profession, declarations of faith. Overwhelmingly these statements are made by non-technicians, though it is not uncommon for technicians to emit deranged statements to curry favour. " ... "But the broader reality is so much worse: people who have no background in the technology at all actually believe what they are saying. As a general rule you should avoid getting into business with a liar, but if you must, you can at least reason with them even if only in private. A true believer is much more threatening because they are impervious to even inducement by self-interest." Now add some DMT and spirituality to the mix.
randomq - Same as it ever was.
Perhaps, but at least back in the day when you didn't want to have to actually read Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, you'd have to at least skimmed the CliffsNotes in order to write your homework, not just cut and paste, without any review, from AI for the assigned essay. The scale and ease of mass plagiarism is something new, the whole notion of "quantity has a quality all its own".
You can use a hammer to build a house, or break into your neighbor's house.
Sure, and fentanyl can be used for surgery or for creating a mass epidemic of crippling addiction. How many houses do you see being built with the AI "hammers" versus how many people are using them to bash themselves in the forehead and remove any need for, or use of, their critical thinking skills? Maybe just look around Puna and Punaweb and take inventory?
(You'd probably like Doctorow's latest essay about how many tech professionals akin to yourself that possess the discernment necessary to employ AI in a useful and productive manner, versus middle managers, and many end users, riding the mindshare hype train. Regardless though, the productivity gains aren't balancing against the trillions of dollars in debt being created so a financial correction is incoming. Can only pump for so long before the dump - see crypto, NFTs, metaverse, etc.)
Not suspecting, he's talked about using Claude to draft and write his posts and papers on multiple occasions, like this one. (or just go ask your favorite AI for a summary as that seems to be modern currency of the realm)
"...And after extensive dialogue I asked Claude to write up an outline and then the paper itself for a paper I am calling “The American democracy package,”
...
Anyway, here’s the paper that Claude wrote after our dialogue.
...
[Of course Claude assisted in writing this essay; it did a pretty good job on the first draft, after a little dialogue, but I edited the piece significantly]
"
He also compares prompting Claude to divination and claims to have induced Claude with a "jnana yoga approach" to create a similar conversational stance to a "state of Buddha-like calm and wisdom." He also goes on and on, with and about AI, in a long discourse, as one does, after his bufo trip (that's 5-MeO-DMT, or the "Mount Everest of psychedelics" for those not in the know - the chemical structure may be familiar to some for other local reasons).
Like constantly-quotable tech consultant Nick Suresh noted recently:
"In every sufficiently large business we have observed (say, with 500+ employees), we have noted that continued advancement, and increasingly continued employment, has started to require repeated professions of belief in the transformative power of AI for said business. I am not talking about providing ideas about how to use AI in the business – I mean religious profession, declarations of faith. Overwhelmingly these statements are made by non-technicians, though it is not uncommon for technicians to emit deranged statements to curry favour. " ... "But the broader reality is so much worse: people who have no background in the technology at all actually believe what they are saying. As a general rule you should avoid getting into business with a liar, but if you must, you can at least reason with them even if only in private. A true believer is much more threatening because they are impervious to even inducement by self-interest." Now add some DMT and spirituality to the mix.
randomq - Same as it ever was.
Perhaps, but at least back in the day when you didn't want to have to actually read Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, you'd have to at least skimmed the CliffsNotes in order to write your homework, not just cut and paste, without any review, from AI for the assigned essay. The scale and ease of mass plagiarism is something new, the whole notion of "quantity has a quality all its own".
You can use a hammer to build a house, or break into your neighbor's house.
Sure, and fentanyl can be used for surgery or for creating a mass epidemic of crippling addiction. How many houses do you see being built with the AI "hammers" versus how many people are using them to bash themselves in the forehead and remove any need for, or use of, their critical thinking skills? Maybe just look around Puna and Punaweb and take inventory?
(You'd probably like Doctorow's latest essay about how many tech professionals akin to yourself that possess the discernment necessary to employ AI in a useful and productive manner, versus middle managers, and many end users, riding the mindshare hype train. Regardless though, the productivity gains aren't balancing against the trillions of dollars in debt being created so a financial correction is incoming. Can only pump for so long before the dump - see crypto, NFTs, metaverse, etc.)