Submitted 2 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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I wish I knew this when I was starting out:
Ego the Living Planet, but it’s just academia
At my peak, I easily posted a million words a year to Reddit. The idea that I wasn’t putting that effort into actual productive writing is definitely an idea I’ve had many, many times.
It was productive, just not for you. The LLM trainers are happy for all that VC money you helped them get.
No, dialogue is important practice. We once wrote letters to each other.
Yeah, what ever happened between you two, anyway? You guys used to be so lovey dovey!
Love it when people publish just to publish, really improves the whole academic enterprise!
4000 words? That’s only like 40 minutes a day at 100 wpm, a speed anyone writing professionally should easily be able to maintain. Spend half the workday writing. 24000 words a day. 6 times the articles. Thank me later.
Ah, a man of culture management, I see
This is like the myth of the 10x AI developer. Even if I could code 10x faster, coding is only maybe 25% of what I do at best.
Bonus points if you take all those words you wrote, sort them alphabetically, and publish them as ~3k word works. Challenge the STEM community to reconstruct your original papers.
Fun fact: Hooke’s law (f= kx for springs) was originally published as an anagram - all the letters in alphabetical order. Latin, of course.
/insanelinkedinposts
That’s exactly what I thought this was at first. Reminds me of an old video, maybe TikTok, where some guy is like “ok get two fast food jobs and live in your car. Work 80 hours a week. Buy a duplex and then rent it out.”
I know of a mamager who unironically believes this for internal corporate technical reports (ours are academic style and more rigorous and formal than they need be…). It’s not quite to this extent, but I’ve heard overheard conversations where the manager apparently can’t fathom why their subordinates are incapable of double digits over a year.
classautonomy.info/…/Forerunners_-Ideas-First-Cat…
The first chapter of this may be cathartic.
Liberal mem- bers of the credentialed classes love to use the word empower when they talk about “people,” but the use of that verb objecti- fies the recipients of their help while implying that the people have no access to power without them.
I’m loving just the introduction.
I remeber something about monkeys and typewriters 🤔
Was even Paul Erdös that productive?
Easy there Mr. Hubbard!
That’s a bit right?
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
What about, y’know, doing the actual research you’re supposed to be writing about?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 days ago
Just ask chatgpt to do that.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
And why write 4000 words that makes sense every day when the LLM can hallucinate 120 papers every day.
MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
The data is left as an exercise to the reader.
If it worked for Grandpas Bible then it can work here too!
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Could be a mathmatician writing about numbers and such.
NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
We still do research and have lots of work to do before a paper even begins lol