
a relentless necessity
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a relentless necessity
@CapenerSean
organizer @mimbresschool, lecturer @hist_studies. research & writing about time, debt, slavery, philosophy, and political theology.


I’ve successfully shifted the discourse about Emily Wilson’s translation on here by academics from “It’s great” to “Ok so she takes a ton of liberties and makes many questionable choices and I don’t personally like it, but translation is hard, and I really hate RHG.” Progress.




I've gotten a lot of comments like this, so forgive me if this isn't very kind, but I'm at my limit. If you're a serious academic, you've spent a lot of time looking at citations, and you know they often contain errors. You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible. Given that this is going on, it's kind of silly to think that we should have a kind of death penalty for having an LLM, hallucination mistake What you're doing is virtue signaling and pretending that citations are somehow sacred to what academics do, when in fact they're mostly just poorly put up window dressing. You're being dishonest. Perhaps with yourself, perhaps with me.










@drumm_colin @No5mallf3at @DevinGoure @AuthorialGail Or, for example, an Empiricist may claim that we can't really know what someone else intends to do, because, how could you derive that just from *seeing* (in a restricted sense) his bodily movements.






