> horrific things are going to happen to them without the their/or their families consent

Indeed, that is (allegedly) the case with organ donation: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/organ-transplants-dono...

Towards the end of the article: "the company plans to eventually remove the anesthesia from some brain slices"

Here's hoping the idea is that the slices will be really small, or something, because frankly the whole thing is utterly horrifying enough as-is.

The advantage(?) of take-home exams à la Caltech is that they can be open everything and 3–5 hours long :-P (For what it's worth, being able to listen to music during an exam, ctrl+F a digital textbook, etc. was super awesome; it would deeply sadden me if that becomes infeasible in the future once enough students stop caring about the Honor Code....)

I had in-class exams at MIT that were up to 3 hours long. Take home would definitely have been nicer.

Could students use the bathroom during the exam? If not, sheesh it could hard to hold it when very nervous during a long exam!

I only recall some finals at MIT being that long. Which classes had normal exams that long?

They were finals, not ordinary tests or midterms. Junior and senior year, I think one was Chemical Engineering, but I can't remember the exact name or number.

This year 6.7800 has a both 3h midterm and a 3h final, for instance. Wish us luck.

That would be this?

https://web.mit.edu/6.7800/www/info24.pdf

Or at least this year's version? If so, it looks like Course 6 hasn't gotten any easier over the years. Good luck!

Things may have changed, but I don't recall any group exams during my time at Caltech, and conversely I do recall a strong sense of pride in the Honor Code. Also, if your professor allows collaboration, then it's definitionally not cheating: There is a vast moral difference between "the professor made the assignments difficult with the specific expectation that people will collaborate" and "the professor doesn't want collaboration but people did it anyway".

Frankly, this comment feels almost entirely foreign to my experience—I suppose things could've changed over the years (although my impression is that things have gotten much worse recently, not better), or it could be major-specific, or I just got lucky with the specific people I happened to hang out with?

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I'm not the other commenter (and I believe you that it's not AI), but I'd guess it's mostly the first line: a short affirmation followed by "The problem is ...." feels like the sort of formula the LLMs love to use. (Not trying to imply that there's anything inherently wrong with it, of course.)

While we're at it, I'm under the impression that the recent LLMs have also co-opted "genuinely", which I'll never forgive them for—first they stole my em-dashes, and now they're stealing my adverbs too?!

Thanks for the explanation. Yeah, I use "genuinely" and "honestly" far too much; and often in odd places. It is a bad habit.

As to that comment's tone, my entire comment history is visible going back years. I'd invite people to peruse it.

In general, I think this phenomenon is called "phono-semantic matching": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching.

It's just that, in my (uninformed) opinion, Anthropic is incentivized a priori to claim things like this about their models. Like, it's probably really good marketing to say "our product is so smart, and we're so concerned about ethics, that made sure a psychiatrist talked to it". I guess it's ultimately a judgment call, but to me the conflict of interest seems big enough that I'm really wary of this sort of argument. (I'm reminded of when OpenAI claimed GPT-5(?) was "PhD-level"—I can personally attest that, at least in my field, this is totally inaccurate.)

In the paper itself, the abstract actually does have a paragraph break, so it's probably just an autoformatting issue or something.

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