Post #2755668
2026-05-12 06:59 UTC
@nicebread@scicomm.xyz @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org the only thing I can hope for is that it will be noticeable.
The thing is that it won't be better outside of academia. I have friends who were programmers and have become babysitters of AI.
It feels like more of a societal question. How do we turn this into something good? Because I don't think we can (should?) turn this shift back/away.
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@moritz_negwer@mstdn.science 2026-05-12 08:49
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org @nicebread@scicomm.xyz @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org good points. This reminds me of this recent thread: https://mastodon.online/@tomstafford/116435591801241434 TL;DR: Grant application (and by extension all paperwork) are a form of "costly signal": for the institutions, a complex application process served as a (workable but imperfect) proxy for (vaguely defined) scientific merit. The complexity requirements are easy to change for them and rate-limit the applicants. What we are seeing now, society-wide, is that this process is broken. (1/n