Taylorism is a management philosophy based on using scientific optimization to maximize labor productivity and economic efficiency. Here's the result of making the false Taylorist assumption that the output of scientific research is scientific papers—the more, faster, and cheaper, the better.

Fortunately, we can ask ChatGPT to review papers too, thus reducing the burden on scientists to find the errors in all those AI-produced papers. What could possibly go wrong?

Not the kind of scientific enterprise I want to be part of

My thesis some years back. Taylor was an autocrat.

Papers are not the output of scientific research in the same way that cars are the output of automobile manufacturing. Papers are merely a vehicle through which a portion of the output of research is shared. We confuse the two at our peril.

Ugh these LLMs and the obsession with full-of-shit plagarism-at-scale 「 AI 」 needs to die a fiery death

I'm up far too early to go to work, so I read "Taylorism" as "Terrorism", which makes for a very confusing sentence! 😅

Did you see HHMI’s latest initiative?

Reading such stuff has a paradoxically soothing effect on me It makes it more tangible that, when the day comes - hopefully not too soon - I shall depart this world in peace. “In peace”, I.e. relieved not to have to endure such BS - or such monstrosity, take your pick - anymore

Good grief what a bad idea!

Guessing you weren’t invited to the ongoing AGI conference at UW. agi-conf.org/2024/