"cool" is doing some heavy semantic lifting here

Or in German -- unfuckingglaublich is attested

Drittmittelwesen insgesamt abschaffen, die Mittel stattdessen mit der Gießkanne verteilen. In der Summe (Zeit für Anträge, Zeit für Begutachtung, Geld für Verwaltung der Institutionen) wahrscheinlich ein Nullsummenspiel, aber nur besserer Laune für alle

I can't say for sure what's going on in other people's heads, but I think it's because for so many boosters & doomers, it's become a core belief that their chatbot buddies/LLM-enabled supertools are understanding and reasoning.

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But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.