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I sat behind someone on a plane who was using ChatGPT to write the materials and remarks for a sustainability and climate conference.

Oh that could be me... I work at a major organization that directly interacts at the highest levels of climate policymaking. You know what I recently learned from our comms team? Policymakers are asking AI about the options in front of them. So they advised us to feed as much data as we can into these AIs, so that when policymakers ask AI about their options, they will not only get the lobbyist answer. What a world to live in.

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'vegetative electron microscopy'

I recently reviewed a paper, for a prestigious journal. Paper was clearly from the academic mill. It was horrible. They had a small experimental engine, and they wrote 10 papers about it. Results were all normalized and relative, key test conditions not even mentioned, all described in general terms.. and I couldn't even be sure if the authors were real (korean authors, names are all Park, Kim and Lee). I hate where we arrived in scientific publishing.

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Why are folks so anti-capitalist?

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The issue is profit motive is inherent in capitalism. Businesses and government work on the same resources (money in this case). Businesses do everything they can to maximize profits, then they use the profits to buy government and ensure they keep business as usual. Power corrupts. So they don't offer living wage, they cut costs, they pollute and they collude. And in law, these businesses are legal entities too. They are afforded the legal status yet if an actual person did what a business does, he would be put away for a long time. Businesses act as psychoes yet people glorify being a successful business owner. Being successful in this system means that you exploited the most and you are the most psycho. Congrats then I guess.

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Lemmy.world Admin Response to Meta/Threads

I advise against even CONSIDERING a cooperation with META. That alone will make users think you are in it for the gains, that you can be baught. There is no value that META can bring to the Fediverse. And I hope in the future outgoing defederation will be possible too, like blocking certain instances from accessing our activity via the pub. But this request comes from Fediverse, and META will request other things from ActivityPub. They will seem to contribute while muddying the waters. They are a huge monster coming our way and we'd better start raising the walls.