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2026-05-12 09:09 UTC
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org @nicebread@scicomm.xyz @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org I don't have a solution for this, but maybe we can use this framing for some kind of ill-advised historical analogy: In my (amateurish*) reading of history, once a technical process has automated previously hard-to-fake signals, these have subsequently been devalued and replaced by a new set of more minimalist values. Ostentatious flourishes eventually get replaced by (equally ostentatious) minimalism.
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@moritz_negwer@mstdn.science 2026-05-12 09:13
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org @nicebread@scicomm.xyz @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org So extending this analogy to the academic granting process, we would get application brutalism: short proposals, quickly judged, maybe assigned by weighted lottery. LLMs might produce flourishes, but their output is still decidedly mediocre. Flourishes are now worthless, so maybe a half-page core-idea proposal is the way to go? * caveat: I know nothing about cultural history, anyone actually knowledgeable is welcome to tell me how wrong I got this :)