Remember the trump university grift? almost surprised that that hasn’t been re-vivified (and maybe given a name without trump in it) so that all the University grants and contracts can be stolen/shifted to that.
…keep hearing that trump-town wants to cancel Harvard research contracts and shift them to “trade schools”; as an old lab-rat, i’m quite certain that a majority of those research contracts require lab space, chemical waste channels, and lab equipment to be in place. @#$!!
Given he never actually means what he says or follows through I want to call this “bluffshit”
Most of his threats are empty bluffshit.
I don’t think it’s just a case of fraud. It seems that at first they want to bend the Ivy League to its kness and then, on a larger scale plan, re-found American society, reform the entire country according to their ideas. This time they didn’t even need a classic coup d’état or a violent civil war, just patience and shaping the hearts and minds of people little by little for years.
There’s nothing at all wrong with vocational schools, but they aren’t research institutions. There’s been this heavy push on the right pushing toward more money to go to trade schools and away from colleges and universities. I can only imagine this is to have populace with useful/exploitable skills but less overall education (and hence easier to control).
They believe the AI will do anything for them. No more need for smug scientist and their weird ideologies.
I’m sure these are the same people that think AI is capable of “learning” new things.
I work in tech and definitely feel the constant pressure to utilize AI for as many things as possible. Even though more often than not it’s a hindrance for anything other than helping to save time helping to solve known problems (and even that can be questionable at times).
That and the money they funnel to their friends with detention center contracts in exchange for kickbacks. Billable hours!
Writing low stakes bullshit that nobody is going to care about.
I think it’s absolutely perfect for writing the kinds of reports that David Graeber describes in Bullshit Jobs (I only read the original article, not the book) and also for summarising those reports to the people who wouldn’t have actually read them before “AI”.
To be fair I read and write some of those things but I tend to follow footnotes and references. I’m not particularly anything so turning up to a meeting I have to have read everything that I can possibly have any input into or what’s the point of me being there?
It’s fine… you don’t need to have actual PEOPLE with expertise do the research, you just… waves hands you know, "follow the steience… /s
And of course, once again, the research isn’t just in scientific fields, but in the humanities, too…
Seriously though. I am still trying to turn it into something coherent, but I think there is a real thing with right wing movements and not understanding that work actually needs someone to do it. Market advocates talking about the invisible hand as if no human were involved in choosing prices, libertarians planning towns with crypto but no infrastructure, Republicans perennially surprised that the Department of Energy is why they have power, techno-optimists who imagine global warming will simply be solved at some point or another, Ayn Rand imagining the rich could walk away from the workers and lose nothing, Donald Trump marveling at this old-fasioned concept of “groceries” people need to buy so they can eat. It’s all one long delusion that other people don’t matter because stuff just happens.
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Detecting thoughtcrime.
Good grief: evacuated
That’s a foreign concept to wealthy leaders of these movements, because most never had to work for anything. There were always others around to clear the path ahead for them and clean up when they made mistakes or a huge mess. This is why we see privileged folks believing they got where they are because of merit. 
Meanwhile those of us who actually had jobs see their delusions of worker-free life for exactly what they are - more bs that someone else will have to clean up.
The worst part is that they tend to escape the consequences of their ignorance. What happens after the bubble bursts tends to be very costly for everyone else. Some try to prevent it by screaming that their fantasies are not going to work while they just blithely handwave any mention of issues. Unfortunately, those who know better are rarely heard over the cheering of the sheeple who believe wealth = wisdom… even when their leaders spew absolute nonsense.
Talking of humanities… (albeit off-topic):
Yeah, I agree with that… they just don’t understand that it’s not just… wave your hands and SCIENCE or HISTORY or… whatever. And it’s almost never just an individual actor doing the work, either. Any major breakthrough usually has 10s if not sometimes hundreds of people who made some kind of contribution to the work - everyone from lab assistants or RAs who help comb through archives, grad students who co-author papers, administrative assistants who do lots of grunt work, colleagues, friends, and partners who get ideas bounced off of, supportive parents who put their kids through school, archivists, people who set up labs, janitors, entire fucking ecosystems support every major breakthrough that is usually just a attributed to one white dude. So, maybe, they know that someone does the work, but they believe it to be some lone genius who toils away in some lab by himself. It’s very much in line with their views on history itself, that of great white men doing great things that the rest of us are too stupid to do. It’s all of a worldview, the me-centric one that doesn’t understand how the world actually works.
That too… And they think that every vile thing they spew is genius, because they are general surrounded by yes men who never tell them that they stink and aren’t that smart, to boot.
Yep.
No, I just think it needs to all go, at least with regards to the humanities. There might be some useful cases for LLMs, but I’m not seeing it so far (especially not in fields like mine). Just… I don’t think it’s worth it. Research is just… hard to do. It just takes time, patience, thought, and creativity. An automated system to sort through materials won’t get you to where you are going, whether or not it’s publicly owned, whether or not it’s trained on materials not in copyright, etc, etc… 
I have seen that here as well. UVA is unitary, but most the local hospitals contract with physician staffing companies for ED, anesthesia, radiology, NICU, and so on for most specialties. Then those companies negotiate their own insurance contracts, leading to situations where the surgeon is covered, but the anesthesia is not. Or, as i found out, radiation oncology was covered, but not radiology. So while the radiation thetapy was covered, the associated xrays to make sure the right stuff was being irradiated were out of network. Had i had it done in Charlottesville, it would have been fine, but i gotta work to be insured, so local hospital it is. Yeah, this system is hopelessly broken.