As an undergrad in Boulder, I used to make a trip to NCAR a handful of times a semester to collect signatures for grants for the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (I was a grant courier there for two year). They did a lot of grant work with NCAR, including a lot of grants I remember that were doing some of that important work on climate change that drew all that fire from He Who Slumbers' quid-pro-donors.
To quote Droopy Dog, "This makes me mad."
2025-12-16 23:18:01
CharlesWT - there's AI content, and there's AI generated autofill suggestions. He would not use the forer out of pride, but the latter is a fair game.
2025-12-16 21:57:05
I would not discount He Who Slumbers as the "author" of those based on the language and the weird syntax. There's often a disconnect between people's spoken and written vocabularies that happens because one is synchronous and extemporaneous and the other is asynchronous and somewhat iterative. The Ancient Orange One could very well type part of it, get suggestions from AI that get incorporated, and then riff on the AI suggestions in ways that undo part of the coherence forced upon the first draft by the suggestions. They all read like patchwriting to me. He could be pissed and ranting, set it aside for an AI check and a McNugget, seize hold of a suggestion and then try to kick that suggestion up with his own special spin on it.
What I see is not so different from any freshman first draft done too late at night in a fit of pique.
So put me down as a vote for "it's him - with slight input from an inanimate assistant."
As an undergrad in Boulder, I used to make a trip to NCAR a handful of times a semester to collect signatures for grants for the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (I was a grant courier there for two year). They did a lot of grant work with NCAR, including a lot of grants I remember that were doing some of that important work on climate change that drew all that fire from He Who Slumbers' quid-pro-donors.
To quote Droopy Dog, "This makes me mad."
CharlesWT - there's AI content, and there's AI generated autofill suggestions. He would not use the forer out of pride, but the latter is a fair game.
I would not discount He Who Slumbers as the "author" of those based on the language and the weird syntax. There's often a disconnect between people's spoken and written vocabularies that happens because one is synchronous and extemporaneous and the other is asynchronous and somewhat iterative. The Ancient Orange One could very well type part of it, get suggestions from AI that get incorporated, and then riff on the AI suggestions in ways that undo part of the coherence forced upon the first draft by the suggestions. They all read like patchwriting to me. He could be pissed and ranting, set it aside for an AI check and a McNugget, seize hold of a suggestion and then try to kick that suggestion up with his own special spin on it.
What I see is not so different from any freshman first draft done too late at night in a fit of pique.
So put me down as a vote for "it's him - with slight input from an inanimate assistant."