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  • LLMs are not peers. It should have no part in the peer review process.

    You could make the argument that it’s just a tool that real peer reviewers use to help with the process, but if you do, you cant get mad that authors are shadow-prompting for a better chance it’ll be seen by a human.

    Authors already consciously write their papers in ways that are likely to be approved by their peers, (using professional language, good data, and a standard structure) if the conditions for what makes a good paper changes, you can’t blame authors for adjusting to the new norms.

    Either ban AI reviews entirely, or let authors try to game the system. You can’t have both.






  • The technology doesn’t concern me that much. It definitely has uses. The thing that concerns me about it is how much money has been sunk into it. It’s basically the root cause of everything wrong with it.

    So much venture capital has been pumped into the technology, and with the use cases where it shines alone, there is no way they’ll recoup their investment, let alone make money. So what they’re doing is trying to go all-in on this gamble by creating a ton of hype and putting it in everything to hopefully get back their investment.

    They’re spinning up huge datacenters, that are sucking up unprecedented levels of water and power to run these things, and the end result is a tool that is not reliable enough for technical and scientific uses unless the training data is very specific about the topic in question. The generalized models are really only good for taking notes and composing emails.

    The other big concern is how they’re trained. The tool sucks up truly staggering amounts of data online with no regard for anything. Privacy, copyright, and server bandwidth are simply not factored in, because the tool would be even less usable than it is now.

    This is going to be the next dotcom bubble and things will get worse before they get better, because some rich assholes will need to lose some money. But after that happens, the industry will collapse to a point where things are reasonable again.



  • I believe that’s just fear-mongering. This has been a thing that Microsoft has wanted to do for a while, largely because having 3rd party code with direct kernel access is a huge problem in terms of stability and security unless you can be sure you know what all that code is doing.

    They tried to do this in the past, arguing that anything that wanted kernel-level access had to Windows API calls instead, however Windows Defender which was bundled with the OS was exempt from this restriction. The EU argued that it gave Microsoft a competitive advantage in the AV space and mandated that if they wanted to do this, they had to follow their own rules which MS was not willing to do.

    Instead, Microsoft dictated that any code that was going to run in the kernel had to be submitted to Microsoft for review, who would then approve or deny the code for use. The problem with this method is that it’s slow, so any AV that wanted to update their engine had to go through a code review process every time. Crowdstrike (and likely every other AV provider) got around this by having a component of their software with kernel-access that could read in data dynamically. This is what caused that worldwide BSOD problem a couple years back. The Crowdstrike component with kernel access loaded in a bad update that was not properly reviewed and it broke every system with the AV installed.

    Overall, this change is a good thing and will force software vendors to actually operate securely rather than just asking for ring 0 access when they don’t need it. As always, if you’re worried about the changes MS is making, Linux is available and getting better day by day.




  • Super Mario Bros (1993) is one of my favorite movies of all time.

    It’s a bizarre mess of a film, full of counter-culture icons in a weird sci-fi dystopian setting. Despite being objectively awful, there isn’t another movie quite like it, and it’s a fun watch.

    It’s a shame that the nightmarish production took such a heavy toll on everyone involved in the project because I’d like to see more screwball adaptations of things




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    14 days ago

    There is something especially charming about genuine amateur art.

    When you can tell exactly what they intended to depict, but couldn’t quite get there skill-wise adds something to the piece as a whole.

    I love when people want to express some idea they had, so much that they’re willing to put themselves out there, even though they know that the final work is not as good as it could be. To say nothing of the separate joy of following an artist and watching their work improve with time.