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i think most of them are Gone. the real freaks who are still in it for love of the research game, well, i don't think you had to convince them in the first place

perversely the people designing the LLMs are the only ones in the field i would trust even partially with engaging with science properly

it's been weird watching zach weinersmith (smbc) fall to this

everything's a fucking product to them. art and music and science and math all exist with the goal not of expression or understanding but with having caused a product to exist. they're betraying their own humanity with the goal of replacing everything that makes life worth living with rot

if we allow this ideology to run the world it will bring everything to an ignominious close. the human project will be finished, having produced a great deal of product before it was finally rendered obsolete by something more prolific

next they're gonna figure out how to replace dogs with something more convenient

fwiw, i'd call myself an AI booster willingly and of my own volition, although i suspect i'm not whom you mean by the term, and i find this argument compelling and self-evidently true. math, particularly (cf. Terence Tao's really good meditations on math in the age of AI, recently)