Pistol whip, beat saber and audio trip are in my rotation. Also I expect you to die I/II/III or whatever the numbering is.

wasn't it thoreau who said "Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short"

personally, I think there's a time and place for short versus long, just like there's a time and place for a 45mins TV episode versus a 2 hour marathon movie.

and when future LLMs are trained on this style, the prose (if I can call it that) becomes even worse?

Academic writing uses words with meaning in very domain specific ways; those in the domain understand it, and those outside find it confusing.

If an AI just randomly throws out domain specific words without that domain's specific meaning, it becomes very painful for everybody to read, and worse still adds a level of ambiguity that defeats the whole purpose of that academic writing in the first place.

Yes it uses domain specific words but that's not the reason why academic writing is painful to read and write.

In addition to all that, I find the quality of writing in average current scientific papers atrocious, too.

Look at some from earlier than mid 80s or so, they are so much better.

Yes, this was a bit of a surprise to read when dealing with crypto: "This one lives in CIRCL's threshold RSA implementation... float64 has a 53-bit mantissa... the result is silently rounded before it is ever cast back to an integer. "

this is numerical methods 101, i.e. why 1+1 != 2

I'm a bit surprised that this is from cloudflare. Anybody from CF care to comment? Is this like prototype/super skunkworks code that somehow made it through?

are you allowed to video them to see whether they can actually do a good job?

-Phone notification- Your chinchilla rug had finished the wash cycle

I don't have a rug... oh wait...

I feel like this is the sort of thing William Gibson should write...

There's a pretty good 2008 Mexican scifi film "sleep dealer" that covers this topic more or less

>> Sleep Dealer depicts a dystopian future to explore ways in which technology both oppresses and connects migrants.[2] A fortified wall has ended unauthorized Mexico-US immigration, but migrant workers are replaced by robots, remotely controlled by the same class of would-be emigrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer

Nice! Thanks!

... I mean not "nice" as in "all that sounds nice" . I mean "nice" as in "nice dystopia".

That would a Microsoft'ese, "Some regions are encountering issues" => "The entire world is down, but our status page is working"

I also see that fitting into the corporate language of Gaslightese.

I've read blindsight and echopraxia, but not starfish, so thanks for the reminder.

If starfish is even despairing than blindsight and echopraxia, then this should be "fun"!

it starts despairing. Then it gets worse.