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Oh. Sorry, my bad.

What about the fraud? Can we talk about that? Or the Sokal-oid "we'll publish nonsense" journals?

Seriously though, we should be talking about this. The greatest engine for progress humanity has ever built is rotting from within and its animated corpse is being used as a status-granting rubber stamp machine by the same old priesthood of "trust me, bro, God said I was right" but now in lab-coats instead of robes.

This whole issue seems to hinge on a fundamental disagreement about what science (or mathematics) is. Papers aren't science, they're the receipts. But too many people apparently can't tell the difference, so we have the present blizzard of forged receipts (first from paper mills, now with new lemon scented AI++).

Mathematics and science represent two systems for sorting truth from BS. An exponentially increasing supply of BS makes that even more necessary.

As long as we're introspecting, and being on the watch for influence campaigns, it may be instructive to scan the article for the use of `/(center[ -])?(left|right)([ -](wing|leaning))?/` designations.

I think you just answered your own question.

Nicely, it also filters out humans that lack a certain ability to reflect.

This is not my field, but I'm...socialy adjacent? and my understanding is that we grow big crystals of silicon because that's the mature technology, but then there are multiple cutting & polishing steps that add to the cost.

We want small pieces of thin wafers, but we grow huge crystals and then slice them into wafers that we then have to cut up. With vapor deposition diamond you can remove a lot of those steps by growing what you need, say a grid of chips of the desired dimensions directly on a carrier substrate.

As I understand it.

Space. They are more resilient to radiation, faster, don't generate as much heat and are more tolerant of heat. That pretty much tells you where they're going to be used.

That was ten years ago. Today, lab grown diamonds are cheaper than natural at any size or quality, which is why the diamond cartels are sh*tting little bricks that are almost as hard.

And the convert energy into fertilizer glitch.

Sure they were. They took copies back in a DeLorean.

Bingo, we have a winner!

Or maybe...they just aren't actually "smarter or somehow more capable"?

It seems like the more parsimonious explanation.

I find it interesting that this analog to Gell-Mann Amnesia is so strong, and likely results from the models having absorbed so much journalism and other internet content of similar quality. They seem brilliant in areas you're ignorant of, and rubbish on things you know well.

It's amazingly hard for people to accept what that logically implies, whether they are thinking about journalists, politicians/celebrities, or LLMs.

Every humpback whale is related to every giant sequoia through a chain of intermediaries as similar as a mother and child (proof: go up via mothers to the first eukaryote, then back down).

That doesn't mean you can _incrementally_replace_parts_ of a whale until it's a tree, with every intermediate being viable.