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The paper lists "first authors", "core authors", and "senior authors".

My dream is to one day be listed on a seminal paper as "secondary forum reply author".

Speaking as someone working in the field, I find it amusing how much researchers working on automating human work care about human credit assignment.

extremely underrated comment. nice one!

Similarly, I’d like the movie credit Second Assistant to the Second Second Assistant Director.

"Junior Assistant Vice-Dean" (or variants thereof) in academia. Those mostly exist to give a pay boost to administrators who've otherwise maxed out on pay.

I recall that my undergrad institution once invented a new deanship out of whole cloth for a coach who'd maxed out on the "professor" pay scale.

Even worse, the bastard didn't even win games!

In that case, I highly recommend watching the movie Synecdoche New York (2008).

PS Can I be your hairdresser?

I'll second that recommendation, and in that same sort of vibe I'd also recommend Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and Station Eleven (2021-2022). They all have aspects of stories within stories, which is a trope that I particularly enjoy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story

Holy inferiority complex batman!

You can aspire higher and just use one of these LLMs to be a "first author" in a published peer reviewed paper.

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