I’m a chemist, I just gave a class to students today. The main topic of the whole lesson was this: we have all these theories and methodologies, we are not going to study how they work and how to use them, let’s discuss now all the limitations they have and when they do not work.

Scientific calculations - and other approaches as well - put out garbage all the time, that is the main point of what I said above.

Some limitations are known, just like it is known that LLMs have the limitation of hallucinating.

Calculations will happily tell you that an acutely toxic drug is the best way to cure cancer.

The reason why that does not lead to catastrophe is that there are many checks and safety nets in place in order not to blindly trust any result.

The exact same approach can be applied to an LLM.

I can tell a piece of software to do the maths for ms. Sometimes the results appear to work with reality.

People complain about LLMs hallucinating, but they have no idea of how many assumptions and just plain “everybody does it this way, I guess it works” are there in scientific research.

I know it is quite common to ask in gay dating apps. Many people in there have a full set of naked photos that they send out to others on request.

I’m not so sure about women.

Nothing she wrote seems like classism to me. The way you put it, a lawyer should avoid mentioning he’s a lawyer as that would display he was educated and thus insulting people who couldn’t.

She’s probably complaining with her friends and reflecting about what happens. In her work life she is a respected person who does important things which are recognised by her peers.

In her datings she has to go over people who can not come up with a better idea than to send a dick pic. This is a terrible thing, but some people may get desperate and accept some of these inepts. She’s reminding herself that she’s doesn’t really need to have these kinds of interactions.

Is there a classist message in there? I guess the main message is: I’m a smart person, I don’t need to put up with this. She does not insult those people as Poor’s or people who did not study. As far are we know people sending those pictures may be millionaires (and I wouldn’t be surprised).

While you may be tempted to measure volumes with a beaker, for the love of God don’t use a graduated cylinder on the hotplate!

I’ll just mention that in Italy the word for potato is also used to refer to pussy.