使用DeepL翻譯成英文： Is this post a veiled satire of the LessWrong moderation team? I joined yesterday and have been looking into LW’s governance structure and history. Recently, AI-generated content has caused dissatisfaction among the moderation team and some members, so new users’ posts must now undergo moderation review. Additionally, if significant portions of a post are detected to have been generated or edited by an LLM, this will be grounds for rejection or a posting ban. The reason is that the moderation team believes this is harmful and undermines the forum’s standards. Simply put: LLM-generated content has caused the forum’s content to deteriorate to a level the moderation team deems unacceptable, and this cannot be tolerated.
This post reminds us that those in power sometimes possess less understanding of logic and truth than even a grumpy old man. Exercising power coercively, based solely on historical contributions or status, only highlights the ignorance and weakness of those in power.
More importantly, the most dangerous sign for a civilization or cultural group is when those in power begin to sanction others using terms they themselves cannot clearly explain (such as “fairness,” “academic,” “artificial intelligence,” or “large language models”).
Sorry, I don’t mean to offend. I just wanted to know if the author intended this metaphor. If not, this is still a superb piece of writing!
我的母語「正體中文」：
這篇文章是對LessWrong管理團隊的一種隱藏式的諷喻嗎？因為我昨天加入這裡，而我稍微暸解了一下LW的統治結構以及歷史。最近因為AI生成內容造讓管理團隊與部份成員感到不滿，所以新人的發文必須由管理團進行言論審查。此外，如果被檢測到有大篇幅的LLM生成或修飾情況，也將成為拒絕刊登或者禁止發文的理由。原因是管理階層認為這會有害且損及論壇的水準。簡單來說：LLM生成的內容讓論壇的內容變成管理團隊認為的低下情況，而這是不能被容忍的。
然後這篇文章告訴我們：握有權力的人，有時其實連對邏輯與真理的了解都不如一個糟老頭。靠著歷史貢獻或者地位強制性地形使權力，突顯了擁有權力者的無知與軟弱。
更重要的是，一個文明或者一種文化群體最危險的後，就是當掌權者們開始用一些連自己都解釋不清楚的詞彙（例如：公平，學術的，人工智慧，大語言模型）來制裁他人時。
不好意思，我沒有冒犯的意思。我只是想瞭解作者是否有這樣的隱喻？如果沒有，那這篇仍然是一篇上乘的佳作！
使用DeepL翻譯成英文：
Is this post a veiled satire of the LessWrong moderation team? I joined yesterday and have been looking into LW’s governance structure and history. Recently, AI-generated content has caused dissatisfaction among the moderation team and some members, so new users’ posts must now undergo moderation review. Additionally, if significant portions of a post are detected to have been generated or edited by an LLM, this will be grounds for rejection or a posting ban. The reason is that the moderation team believes this is harmful and undermines the forum’s standards. Simply put: LLM-generated content has caused the forum’s content to deteriorate to a level the moderation team deems unacceptable, and this cannot be tolerated.
This post reminds us that those in power sometimes possess less understanding of logic and truth than even a grumpy old man. Exercising power coercively, based solely on historical contributions or status, only highlights the ignorance and weakness of those in power.
More importantly, the most dangerous sign for a civilization or cultural group is when those in power begin to sanction others using terms they themselves cannot clearly explain (such as “fairness,” “academic,” “artificial intelligence,” or “large language models”).
Sorry, I don’t mean to offend. I just wanted to know if the author intended this metaphor. If not, this is still a superb piece of writing!
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)