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@MosheEcon No if your paper is heavyweight gold you can make an abstract like this. You can also title it something super simple like “Causation” or “Mental Events”
You get to drop the mic
@NickyFrank30 Buddy the door was rotting off the hinges by the time it got kicked in. A civilization doesn't get undone by 4-8 weeks of lockdown orders and a year of (mostly) remote school and work.
The kids already couldn't fuckin read. All the 3rd places were already closed.
@ziv_ravid@ChrSzegedy@KempeLab AI has revealed quantitative social science to be slop that, apparently, quantitative social scientists themselves didn't read too much of in the first place.
Now they're going to producing even more of it and reading even less of it.
@dioscuri Right — if he could copy edit his words I think he would specify “*All* it’s essentially doing is some fancy statistics.”
To be clear the evidence for this claim would be his expert background knowledge of how an LLM operates, not the brute fact that statistics is being done
@Shteyngart Pretty good but it’s always 1000% funnier if scenes with mullahs or ayatollahs have super loud Muslim chanting in the audio track to introduce them. Like as hysteric and exoticizing as possible, super duper loud. They will be speaking Arabic [sic] with subtitles anyway