Could you please give examples of these posts you seem to be saying are wholly without merit? Scrolling through my feed, it isn’t evident to me to what you are referring.
There are also a few posts that are either AI/​human hybrids or fully human-written, from one-day-old accounts, with no summary or thesis statement so I can’t quickly tell whether they’re worth reading. I am not sure what to make of those.
Out of 14 posts today:
5 are definitely real posts from real people
3 are definitely fully AI-generated
3 are not flagged as AI-generated, but they’re written by one- or two-day-old accounts and I am struggling to extract any semantic content by skimming them
3 are written by much older accounts, but those accounts have only one or two posts ever and zero comments
Your response identifies these as AI generated, but does not explain why they lack merit. I skimmed the articles and it is not clear to me why these articles like these should be discouraged, let alone purged from the forum.
Beyond literalism explains the problem of narrow rewards and the need to design systems that internalize second order effects.
From AI Tool to Being discusses the role of memory and existing across time as something that brings about selfhood and indicates consciousness, rather than just intelligence.
The Widow Opportunity Map proposes a way to disseminate information such that resources can be directed to a vulnerable population.
With 50 karma to your post, it bothers me considerably how popular your position seems to be. I have been deterred, on the margin, from generating posts sharing my ideas. With a job at the moment that takes over 60h/​week and not being a fast writer, for me it’s often between doing a series of iterations with Claude/​Chatgpt on an idea, or it not being done at all. I feel increasingly alienated from this community, which I have identified with for like 6 years or more, due to this ascendant view I find rather censorious and prejudiced.
I guess I just would ask that people read stuff and evaluate it before condemning it. If something seems to be AI and you don’t want to read further, fine. But going on to condemn it simply on that basis seems very wrong to me. It seems very strange that in this community I am in a small minority thinking this.
LessWrong mods have reported that, apparently, people with AI psychosis are often told by the AI to post their crackpot ideas onto LW, and the mods have to delete a lot of AI slop posts and bad posts by humans with AI psychosis. Could be something similar is going on here, except that the posts aren’t getting deleted.
Could you please give examples of these posts you seem to be saying are wholly without merit? Scrolling through my feed, it isn’t evident to me to what you are referring.
From today:
Beyond Literalism: Disarming Reward Gaming Through Adversarial Variable Expansion
From AI Tool to Being? - Memory, Time and Reflection as a Possible Architecture of Artificial Identity
THE WIDOW OPPORTUNITY MAP
There are also a few posts that are either AI/​human hybrids or fully human-written, from one-day-old accounts, with no summary or thesis statement so I can’t quickly tell whether they’re worth reading. I am not sure what to make of those.
Out of 14 posts today:
5 are definitely real posts from real people
3 are definitely fully AI-generated
3 are not flagged as AI-generated, but they’re written by one- or two-day-old accounts and I am struggling to extract any semantic content by skimming them
3 are written by much older accounts, but those accounts have only one or two posts ever and zero comments
That’s pretty much how it is every day lately.
Your response identifies these as AI generated, but does not explain why they lack merit. I skimmed the articles and it is not clear to me why these articles like these should be discouraged, let alone purged from the forum.
Beyond literalism explains the problem of narrow rewards and the need to design systems that internalize second order effects.
From AI Tool to Being discusses the role of memory and existing across time as something that brings about selfhood and indicates consciousness, rather than just intelligence.
The Widow Opportunity Map proposes a way to disseminate information such that resources can be directed to a vulnerable population.
With 50 karma to your post, it bothers me considerably how popular your position seems to be. I have been deterred, on the margin, from generating posts sharing my ideas. With a job at the moment that takes over 60h/​week and not being a fast writer, for me it’s often between doing a series of iterations with Claude/​Chatgpt on an idea, or it not being done at all. I feel increasingly alienated from this community, which I have identified with for like 6 years or more, due to this ascendant view I find rather censorious and prejudiced.
I guess I just would ask that people read stuff and evaluate it before condemning it. If something seems to be AI and you don’t want to read further, fine. But going on to condemn it simply on that basis seems very wrong to me. It seems very strange that in this community I am in a small minority thinking this.
Thank you for saying this. A newcomer here with very little karma appreciates your perspective on giving newcomers a chance.
That’s exactly why I want stricter rules: I want to read newcomers’ posts, but right now they are drowned out by AI posts.
For what it’s worth, I appreciate you reading the posts of new users.
LessWrong mods have reported that, apparently, people with AI psychosis are often told by the AI to post their crackpot ideas onto LW, and the mods have to delete a lot of AI slop posts and bad posts by humans with AI psychosis. Could be something similar is going on here, except that the posts aren’t getting deleted.