To prevent fraud and rule exchanges, tokens can be implemented as a digital entity, representing a fungible unit of value. Tokens can be transferred through cryptographic protocols and governed by rules running in the TMS.
Theyāre gonna do it. Peer review is going ON THE BLOCKCHAIN
āEndless Shrimp Jesusā: Red Lobster (a) still exists and (b) is going all-in on AI
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/red-lobsters-ceo-says-hes-153500558.html
Link for that development, in case anyone missed it:
https://awful.systems/post/8263538/11477939
I did, indeed, turn them down, and I told the journal why.
By not thinking about it, one presumes.
Sigh.
ACM will no longer require disclosure of the use of #generativeAI in writing papersā¦ an absolutely terrible change by the @ACM Publications Board to the Policy on Authorship. Yes, this will give ACM more papers. No, the ideology of ānumber go upā productivism is not the path to responsible, ecological or ethical computing, but to irrelevance.
Iāve been programming computers since I was 10, and being a physicist even involved doing that professionally, so I hereby nominate my DariaāHannibal crossover fic as programmer SF. Itās full of science fiction, both real and fictional.
Pissonus Robotics
Everybody remember Frontiers, the publisher that brought us the rat dck pck? Well guess whatā¦
Iāve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. š
When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms. āŖ
Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting āreviewersā with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts. āŖ
I emailed and met with the editorial office to ask for the AI assistant to be turned off. I was told this is not possible. Instead, I was treated to some vague promises of potential future improvements and a dose of gaslighting. āŖ
If human editors canāt control who reviews science, itās no longer peer review ā itās a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So Iām out.
https://bsky.app/profile/michael-okun.bsky.social/post/3mnxkxte55s25
Viral: āread a second bookā
Spiral: āread a second Borges storyā
The author of āDeath and the Compassā and āEmma Zunzā is unrecognizable from the description there.
Gwern apparently hates slop for text but loves it for pictures.
"The instructions say āYou are an agent that writes the various article sections for an encyclopedia entry on Joseph Kanuku.ā
ā[Note: Britannica is encyclopedia, but instructions say no Britannica. Wait, replace with another.]ā
āWait, instructions say NEVER cite Wikipedia. Oops. Let me adjust.ā
āThe instructions say prioritize peer reviewed, books, etc.ā
āWait, but instructions say never cite social media, so omit that last part. Wait, adjust. Since Instagram is social media, omit that.ā
āWait, instructions say avoid āReferencesā as a section, but for completeness, Iāve omitted it from structure.)ā
āThe guidelines say āInclude any of the following where relevant: - Factual detailsā¦ā under Missing Information or Knowledge Gaps Examples. And in format, itās to list only critical issues or all missing info or knowledge gaps.ā
They want to invent the AI Named For Untruth from the hit Star Trek: The Next Generation episode āDo Not Invent the AI Named for Untruthā.
Isnāt that the hat from the picture that Yudkowsky showed off to prove he wasnāt a cult leader? Are they trying to beat the cult allegations by ha ha jokingly wearing the same silly clothes as their founder?
Please enjoy this comment saying āNate Silver is a major proponent of AI assisted writingā like thatās a good thing, and the reply that argues against slop from the weird premise that enjoying oneās own writing process is bad.
owning us with hats and logic
A lolsob moment:
When the CEO was questioned about āwhen the $5 Uber ridesā end w/r/t token usage, he was confused at the notion the shit was even subsidized.
https://bsky.app/profile/apcarnist.bsky.social/post/3mnq3btjmfc2u
Is our children learning?!
āFailing grades soar as professors see greater AI usage, dwindling math skills in UC Berkeley computer science classesā
Wikipedia is mirrored all over the place for good purposes and for ill. Old articles are probably floating around out there, and who knows if the slop machine can distinguish what Wikipedia itself says from other pages that have āfrom Wikipediaā stamped on them?
From the comments:
If there is room for a coliving or cohousing intentional community with maker and permaculture components alongside your plan, I would love to discuss the possibility of collaborating.
āLove your idea, but could we make it more like a compound?ā
This one is actually new. It goes on the top of my pile of absurd Daria crossovers, joining those with Hellraiser, the Amelia Peabody mysteries, They Live and Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.
So far, no cult followers.