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This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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Why did you believe that the posts you're currently rejecting would affect my take? What are the points of contention in your view?
How many of the posts you're rejecting do you believe were created as described in e.g. this post?
When I put more effort into prompting and did a “day-long” back-and-forth with Codex 5.3 (extra high), where I have a whole pipeline with R, LaTeX, custom skills files, and so on, the final output was of course much better; something that could probably land in an average 1st quartile social-science journal. From my perspective as an academic researcher, that’s wild. (I put day-long in quotes because there was a lot of free time in between my prompts and the agent working. I just had to check in once in a while.)
From a quick glance, the posts you're complaining about looked like reformatted ChatGPT conversations which use less than 0.1% of the compute cycles of the hypothetical posts I'm arguing could have good insights.
It doesn't make sense to have a single generic AI tag if some AI posts use 10,000x as much computation as others.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.