Spy.

I always thought that was the point of the novel. At the end, they get rescued, and the ship captain sees what they have done. He is astounded that there could be such barbarism among British children.

It's not about human nature, it's about the assumptions of what civilization means.

I recently rejected an AI written paper, and left a nasty note to the authors about how they were wasting my time.

Because research requires precision. To do background reading, I have to throw out everything that isn't relevant to my particular study. My study is new, so the main driver is my concept of what I want to do. The AI is good at finding things with the same keywords, but not at excluding what isn't relevant to my thought process.

I use Google Scholar for searching for literature. I put in some keywords, then scan through the titles. Most of them are not relevant, but I can click through hundreds of titles in a few minutes to focus my attention where it matters, then use the references/citations of those papers to build out what I need to focus on.

AI will give me a massive block of text that includes 5-6 references, with long explanations of what each is about. It is an attempt to do the same thing, but I have to throw out most or all of them, re-prompt, and then get another similar answer. Sometimes it throws things out that aren't peer reviewed.

It also loses the happenstance of stumbling on something irrelevant but important. That's why I still look at the monthly journal publication lists to see what is happening.

Writing is similar. I need to condense several peer reviewed papers to the core ideas that are relevant to what I am saying, which might mean 1-2 sentences. AI will always give paragraphs that are not really getting to what I want, so I still have to do the work myself anyway. It is just adding steps to do the same process.

I use AI in my work. I have an exclusive use case: when I get admin documents that I have to fill in, and that nobody will ever read, I have AI fill them in for me.

But any time I do anything else, I use my brain. I tried getting LLMs to write research articles for me, and I found that there was no part of the process that they could actually help with. Getting the wall of text or bad list of references meant that I had just doubled my job.

It seems like there should be a good application for these systems, but I don't know what it is.

That tracks.

You see that across levels of development. There are giant glowing banners in Johannesburg that are rather distracting when driving at night. Not sure how many thousands are in those megachurches.

There wasn't anyone besides Beverly Crusher.

To be clear, the rocks that the mountain is made of are reasonably old (oldest on Earth is closer to 4.0 billion years, but anything >500 million is fairly rare), but the landform of a mountain is a combination of uplift and erosion, which is fairly young. The only source for the age of erosion I could find (didn't search hard) mentioned the glaciation of the Pleistocene, which seems reasonable.

Currently a total of 1.9 M across all incarceration systems: https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/united-states-imprisonment-statistics/

He came to believe that his celestial father, whom he saw in the visions, was God the Father, his celestial elder brother was Jesus Christ, and he had been directed to rid the world of demon worship.

While convalescing, Hong dreamed of visiting Heaven, where he discovered that he possessed a celestial family distinct from his earthly family, which included a heavenly father, mother, elder brother, sister-in-law, wife, and son.[19] His heavenly father, wearing a black dragon robe and high-brimmed hat with a long golden beard, lamented that men were worshiping demons rather than he himself, and presented Hong with a sword and golden seal with which to slay the demons infesting Heaven.

Hong left Guangzhou on 12 July 1847 to search for Feng Yunshan.[38]Although robbed of all of his possessions, including his demon-slaying sword, by bandits in the town of Meizixun