alt Hacker NewsI have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science themed emojis (he's a cardiologist so lots of cardiac hearts, test tubes and DNA emojis) and another uses custom-mojis that she designed after Piet Mondrian's art.
I've also seen emojis popping up in official meeting minutes which is fine too. Why not spice it up with some whimsy.
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> use AI in place of the bullets
Did you mean "use emojis"?
> It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work.
That's not what "novelty" means in that context. If your review included "these emoji's really bring some novelty to this cholesterol survey" I'd look at you funny.
> brings some novelty to our scientific work
Is this satire? I hope it is. Otherwise it seems like a sorry state that science currently is if it needs emojis to bring some novelty into it.
>Why not spice it up with some whimsy.
These leaked documents (pastebin below) might present evidence for a different view.
https://paste-bin.org/0bu8f8igkd