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CARLOS 1 year ago
Also amazing tactic to win people over the “control the misinformation” narrative
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Nomad 1 year ago
This is only accelerating the replication crisis that was already there. We're going to need a lot more traceability and reproducibility tech going forward
I know everyone these days like to trash science since the Covid debacle when research has to be rushed almost to the point of irresponsibility, but I was once an academic researcher in the AI field. Back then when I submitted a paper it would go through peer review. People would pick every minor detail apart in a manner so thorough that sometimes I felt personally attacked. I did trust science except for one detail. Paper submissions was an industry and universities had quotas to secure funding. When we didn’t have an incredible finding we had to publish whatever and come up with the lamest possible topics just to keep ourselves “researching”. Other than that, we did top notch work that I’m very proud of.
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plebeian 1 year ago
Imagine how much top notch work you would be able to do and all the incredible findings and results that come along, if you did not have to waste time and energy producing quantity. That’s the most beautiful manifestation of everything that is wrong with fiat mentality, when all the focus is on quantity instead of quality
I absolutely understand and have always agreed with your point. That being said, there’s a “science” behind it. The institution that does not publish gets forgotten. So when it comes to funding, the money may follow whoever is making academic headlines.
this is the definition of bullshit and is clear to every intelligent person, science as istitution is garbage full of the worst useless humanity, convincing theirself and others to be an intellectual elite and an authority