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The Ludditetheluddite@assemblag.es
Oct 18, 2026, 12:25 AM
@olivia Good god you are spitting fucking fire in this preprint. It's an absolute joy to be included in it, and I have shared it with my lab!
I could not agree more with your stance against clickwork (e.g., for clickwork, https://theluddite.org/post/ai-poetry.html) and the LLM-as-data-dispenser phenomenon in the social sciences. More than half the talks at IC2S2 this year were, if you boil it down, people doing statistics to LLM output, usually asking it to quantify bespoke abstractions...
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The Ludditetheluddite@assemblag.es
Oct 18, 2026, 12:36 AM
@olivia
For example, here's one quantifying how civil rights a bill is (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73607-x). Here's another that asks whether tweets contain a conspiracy theory (https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11962). Fucking bonkers. Both these practices are high on my list of potential near-future projects.
Oh man I'm so pleased to have read this! Congrats again on a great piece of work.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστolivia@scholar.social
Oct 18, 2026, 7:07 AM
@theluddite thank you so much and @Iris and I will add your names! I will double check with you how to do it properly, but does it make sense for you to also include a "cite as" on your blog post itself? 🫶
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The Ludditetheluddite@assemblag.es
Oct 18, 2026, 12:18 PM
@olivia That's a great idea. I will do exactly that. I started the blog as a (healthy?) outlet for my frustration after having been part of the tech industry for some 10 years (at the time... it was almost 15 by the time I left). I never expected anyone to read it and I haven't really caught up to that fact. I still manually maintain the subscriber list in an encrypted csv file and send out the emails with a script.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστolivia@scholar.social
Oct 18, 2026, 12:43 PM
@theluddite you rock
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