Post #1983860
2025-07-30 23:04 UTC
Replies (17)
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@ricci@discuss.systems 2025-07-30 23:13
@regehr@mastodon.social just imagine if we actually valued people taking care in their peer reviews and put effort into reducing the amount of other bullshit they have to do so that they could spend actual time on important activities instead of trying to automate away the important stuff
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@jdp23@neuromatch.social 2025-07-30 23:21
@regehr@mastodon.social hmm maybe. Could you be a little more concrete about what you’re proposing? Because it seems kind of abstract.
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@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange 2025-07-30 23:24
@regehr@mastodon.social @amarsaar@infosec.exchange Oh, kind of like doing a summary for executives.
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@sherman651@mastodon.social 2025-07-31 00:06
@regehr@mastodon.social Great idea. They can paste it over the abstract. What is an abstract even supposed to be? Isn't that an art term?
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@shriramk@mastodon.social 2025-07-31 01:50
@regehr@mastodon.social I even have some thoughts about what we could call them, but I should check with my LLM on whether that's a good name.
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@shriramk@mastodon.social 2025-07-31 01:51
@regehr@mastodon.social This is such an irritating post. Pure clickbait. I guess someone had to write it first.
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@torf@c.im 2025-07-31 06:01
@regehr@mastodon.social I suppose the text was generated by an LLM, wasn't it?
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@horenmar@mastodon.social 2025-07-31 07:03
@regehr@mastodon.social obviously what we need is a tl;dr in abstract 🙃
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@resuna@ohai.social 2025-07-31 07:42
@regehr@mastodon.social "What began as an intriguing toy for autocomplete has evolved into sophisticated tools capable of summarizing research papers, drafting technical arguments, and even simulating expert‑level discussion." No they bloody haven't, and if you think they have it's because the boosters have successfully gaslighted you.
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@antoinechambertloir@mathstodon.xyz 2025-07-31 08:03
@regehr@mastodon.social i'm worried about the upcoming “rather extreme concrete proposal” that is promised by the editor. (And by the way, how can one be *rather* extreme?)
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@noodlemaz@med-mastodon.com 2025-07-31 08:10
@regehr@mastodon.social perhaps we stop teaching people to write in the most obscure way possible in science I say that despite having been quite good at it - it's inaccessible to most people, including many other scientists. Make the 'lay summary' (don't like the word) actually normal language. That almost everyone can understand. Stop hiding scientific results behind layers of academese, shibboleth and obscurity. We could have started doing this years ago but no (yes I got the joke)
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2025-07-31 08:35
@regehr@mastodon.social Surely the simplest solution would be to have #LLMs write the papers, summarise the papers, attend the conferences, edit the proceedings, and finally read the proceedings? Why do we need to involve human beings in this loop at all? #GenAI
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@xameer@mathstodon.xyz 2025-07-31 09:13
@regehr@mastodon.social how s that different from abstract section?
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@csgordon@discuss.systems 2025-07-31 11:59
@regehr@mastodon.social my head wants to explode, LLMs are legitimately not good at assessing correctness or correspondence between code and natural language... I have the privilege of being able to just not submit to a venue that asks LLMs to assess correctness of submissions, but that's going to be a mess for junior people if they actually do that
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@europlus@social.europlus.zone 2025-07-31 12:08
@regehr@mastodon.social @brouhaha@mastodon.social what an abstract concept!
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@mio@shrimp.mio19.uk 2025-07-31 12:25
@regehr@mastodon.social maybe better abstract?
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@stuartmarks@mastodon.social 2025-07-31 19:25
@regehr@mastodon.social Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz#/media/File:Agassiz_in_the_Concrete.jpg