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Why not use an LLM to filter research they don't want to fund? Keywords list seem like the dumbest way to go about it.
by bluecalm 2mo ago
Why not use an LLM to filter research they don't want to fund? Keywords list seem like the dumbest way to go about it.
- rjrjrjrj 2mo ago"Dumbest way to go about it" is SOP for this administration.
- secretsatan 2mo agoThey did though, an llm filter is just as dumb. Don”t they have those interviews with the edgelord doge employees trying to justify the stuff they killed?
- secretsatan 2mo agoAdding to this, i think llms are just part of their game, they know well enough they aren’t accurate, but it plays into comments like this, where we’ll think an llm would make a smarter decision, but it’s just a smokescreen, they’re already looking at gaming the bots, musk trying to get grok to abide by his petty worldview is the most obvious ploy. But they’re already obfuscating sources of information as a matter of course, soon, we won’t know anything anymore, we’ll have to trust their machines.
- kombookcha 2mo agoI think their fixation on the machine is part accountability-laundering, part obfuscation as you say. They want a monopoly on not just information, but analysis, and breaking all information infrastructure that does not flow through their pet ideology robot is part of that.
- bluecalm 2mo agoI think they don't want to cut funding to math projects or engineering projects. They want to cut funding to research that goes against their politics. Cutting math research because "inequality" keyword is a bad look for them and just gives free ammo to their opposition. If they employed an LLM that wouldn't happen and they could still pursue their political goals.
- redhale 2mo agoYou answered your own question.
- mdp2021 2mo agoThere is a possibility that some just did not care about the whole financing endavour. If you don't particularly care for the life of cows, "looked a bit sad" and other false positive triggers become a sufficient marker for suspected "mad cow disease".