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Did anyone manage to read the whole essay? I often notice with text like these, that they try to imitate scientific writing, but never quite manage (they always
by cycomanic 2y ago
Did anyone manage to read the whole essay? I often notice with text like these, that they try to imitate scientific writing, but never quite manage (they always end in some kind of uncanny valley). The author states his premise quite nicely in the abstract, but the article does not really provide a consise supporting argument and instead just makes semi related points. This is another pattern I noticed, layman authors often seem to think that dumping lots of loosely related "evidence" somehow strengthens the argument.
I wonder if there are good resources which would help lay scientists to write good articles (maybe an opportunity for an LLM proofreader?)
- bilsbie 2y agoI notice a lot of articles end abruptly when they just start to get going. Maybe people get tired of writing and publish whatever they have?
- davisp 2y ago> Introductory summary: The current scientific consensus is that the placebo effect is a real healing effect operating through belief and suggestion. I have no idea what the rest of the article says because this single sentence is so bat shit insane on so many levels. The placebo effect is not “real healing”, it’s “our study is unable to show a statistically relevant result from our treatment”. I’m not big on LLMs personally, so I won’t make any specific claims on what they can do. But from what I’ve read, I’d doubt they’d correct that mistake. On the flip side, I would trust an LLM to tell me whether it should have been “batshit”, “bat-shit”, or “bat shit”.