A simple and effective heuristic: ignore the initial announcement of everything esoteric. Wait a year or five and see if anyone is still talking about it. We a

A simple and effective heuristic: ignore the initial announcement of everything esoteric. Wait a year or five and see if anyone is still talking about it. We are informed about way too much "promising" half-baked results these days. Nobody urgently needs to know about the quantum wormhole. It's much ado about nothing, it's the grinding and squealing of the capitalist media attention sucking machine. Potential exceptions are things like ChatGPT that you can understand and even verify yourself.