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This tickles my sense of schadenfreude. > The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records. Earlier this year, Nature a

This tickles my sense of schadenfreude. > The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records. Earlier this year, Nature asked, “what do these group exits achieve?” I'm beyond flabbergasted that people don't yet know the cost of alienating their truest believers with displays of rampant cynicism. To be clear I know nothing about this journal, but I do know that many companies are more eager than ever to see humans as replaceable with language models. Models don't have integrity though. They can slowly destroy your legacy but they won't build it like people will.

mbreese 2y ago
Might as well add the link for the Nature commentary, which in and of itself, is a pretty interesting read. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00887-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00887-y Unsurprisingly, the main motivator is greater control. But the article suggests that the underlying motivation is not just control, but rather to provide a better quality journal for their audience. For publisher-owned journals, the editors have limited power... and this is the problem for many.
darkhorse222 2y ago
If there's one thing I've learned from executive responses to COVID, it's that unless they are the founder with a personal relationship to the company, executives are short sighted sycophants to the market who hire short sighted sycophants. It's all a sham. As long as they get paid in the short term they do not care about the long term. Also, if it cannot be measured trivially then it does not exist to them.
0points 2y ago
> I do know that many companies are more eager than ever to see humans as replaceable with language models. Let them do that and watch while they destroy their source of income in the process. The industry need to grow up.

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This tickles my sense of schadenfreude. > The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records. Earlier this year, Nature a

by conartist6 2y ago

mbreese 2y ago
Might as well add the link for the Nature commentary, which in and of itself, is a pretty interesting read. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00887-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00887-y Unsurprisingly, the main motivator is greater control. But the article suggests that the underlying motivation is not just control, but rather to provide a better quality journal for their audience. For publisher-owned journals, the editors have limited power... and this is the problem for many.
darkhorse222 2y ago
If there's one thing I've learned from executive responses to COVID, it's that unless they are the founder with a personal relationship to the company, executives are short sighted sycophants to the market who hire short sighted sycophants. It's all a sham. As long as they get paid in the short term they do not care about the long term. Also, if it cannot be measured trivially then it does not exist to them.
0points 2y ago
> I do know that many companies are more eager than ever to see humans as replaceable with language models. Let them do that and watch while they destroy their source of income in the process. The industry need to grow up.