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480 points riffraff | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.494s | source
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bawana ◴[04 Jul 25 11:33 UTC] No.44463587[source]▶
In the novel ‘the three body problem’ , aliens send an ai to corrupt the scientific method so humanity will remain conquerable by the time they arrive. Today our own creation , LLMs and other AI agents, is accomplishing this. I can hardly believe what i read anymore. Two forces are tearing at us. First, the output of ‘science’ is ‘click bait -ified’ for financial survival and AI is amplifying this process. Second, layers of abstraction and commenting on these ‘facts’ further clouds the discussion and prevents actual progress.

I feel like the aliens are here and have subverted humanity already. When will the ‘rest of us’ wake up to act instead of just talk?

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1. jfengel ◴[04 Jul 25 19:05 UTC] No.44467048[source]▶
We've been doing this for decades. LLMs may have automated it, but the plain human version was pretty cheap and plenty effective.

So we're not going to act. Actions are hard enough when everyone is in touch with reality. All potential solutions have trade-offs and everyone wants somebody else to pay the costs.

Add in a smallish but highly influential set who are convinced that the entire thing is a hoax, and progress maxes at zero. You'll be lucky if the problem doesn't accelerate. (Which is indeed what it seems to be doing.)

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2. rbanffy ◴[07 Jul 25 07:21 UTC] No.44487573[source]▶
OTOH, the present audience is uniquely well positioned to build the opposite of this, and, with the clever use of AI, automate massive campaigns for accurate information.