Does this reply from the researchers sound like I’m wasting their time?

“Hello to Wick and Ben, with a cc to researchers in data rescue Dr. van der Schee in the Netherlands and Dr. Noone in Ireland,

Thanks for your reply, Ben.

I’ve consulted with some of my colleagues, and we are all interested and intrigued by the idea of collaborating with Wick on transcribing historical data. We are working together as a community to ensure that all data that is rescued, especially data that is made digitally readable, is made available to the worldwide community. Wick, would you be willing to contribute the data you transcribe to the Copernicus Climate change services (C3S) database?

Thanks,

Dr Slonosky”

It sounds like yes, you've already wasted their time, and you will waste more of it when they try to analyze the slop you send over the wall at them.

Have you been forthcoming that your email was AI-generated?

If you have, then I'd say no. They know what it's about and what to expect. If you haven't, then yes, it's a waste of their time.

> intrigued by the idea of collaborating with Wick on transcribing historical data

Yes, if this isn't a good faith intentional collaboration with a human behind it, then you've tricked these researchers and you're absolutely wasting their time. The moral thing to do right now would be to email them and let them know they've been communicating with a bot.

Thank you for posting this as it’s a great example of what one can automate these days to achieve things completely out of reach before LLMs… but why even bother answering to the trolls in this thread who clearly have no clue about who you are, why you are doing things this way, and almost certainly have never done any of those things themselves! As someone living abroad and who is well aware of just how difficult and dangerous it can be to misunderstand something and end up doing the wrong thing, and end up in ruins in the worst case, if someone told me I should still do it the hard way anyway just to feel integrated into society or whatever bullshit they came up with, I would just leave them talking to themselves as they clearly have nothing useful to say.

This is quite incredible. I've been mulling this idea that we are entering a Great Intelligence event much like the Great Oxygenation that lead to the Cambrian explosion. But that was one of brutal competition. We can hope that with intelligence we quickly realize that we can collaborate and not compete (in many, many areas). Your post shows me how!

Really appreciate you taking the time to stop by and post this! Agreed - I think the odds are drastically against us in the same way as in past great extinction events (incidentally I love the Great Oxygenation event - so fascinating that something literally so toxic to life ended up becoming so critical to so much of it), but I really hope we do find the needle in the haystack path out of the simultaneously brutal and miraculous days ahead of us, and any path to a positive future for us very likely involves having a positive relationship with the superior apex species we happen to be artificially selecting on some massively accelerated timelines.

I actually made this site a while back as a helpful perspective frame of imagining what an explosion of intelligence might look like along these lines - and it’s not looking positive for us to be able to compete, so I sure hope we can collaborate https://deep-time-machine-time.vercel.app/

Thanks! How is AI-IQ computed here? I know this sounds like a plug, but have a feeling you'll really like our book! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60500189-journey-of-t...

It's some obscure data for obscure research. LLMs are good at data extraction. He is basically running the LLM and OCR tools for free for them. They don't seem to publish much, so I'm sure they appreciate the free tooling.

I am doing a PhD, and I have a loop that is autogenerating papers by pulling down the newest developments in the field from Arxiv together with the accepted papers from certain conferences.

Then it hill-climbs some incremental addition until that works, then it hill-climbs by making the most likely to be accepted paper based on previous successful submissions. Then autosubmits. I don't even need to read the research.

Got 4 conferences lined up next year, and 10 papers in queue from 80 ideas. This is research now.