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I really wish less people would give pseudo-anon accounts this much credence. Literally no good science has (ever?) been done on Twitter/X, it's mostly just stu

by dvt 3y ago

I really wish less people would give pseudo-anon accounts this much credence. Literally no good science has (ever?) been done on Twitter/X, it's mostly just stupid equivocating. Much thanks goes out to the actual scientists out there working in labs and publishing their findings. The academic/publishing process is far from perfect already (conflicts of interest, funding, political pressure, institutional pressure, personal pride), now imagine throwing a "Catgirl Girlfriend" (that trolls on an anonymous social media account) into the mix. Free speech is fine, it's the listeners I have a problem with.

not-my-account 3y ago
A 4chan user solved a 25yo combinatorics problem. If it can be done there why not twitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061
- dvt 3y ago
  This is a bad counter-argument. What do you think is the overwhelming product of ranting and raving of anime-picture "scientists" on Twitter: scientific muddying of waters that confuse laypeople and promulgate disinformation, or actual theorem-solving?
  - jimmySixDOF 3y ago
    Anonymization is the only completely sane response to the completely crazy reach-impact spiral of data mining data broker platform TOS. Online persona(s) are private brands of built up real public social value over time and just because there is no officiated imprimatur's stamp of approval, doesn't mean you can exclude them without other cause from the real conversation walled off in ivory corporate towers of group think apprentice effected idea cloning orthodoxy. I know of a 3D graphics format interop workgroup at an official Standard Setting Organization where some of the main contributors are MAdjDuckSauce type handles and its caused no lack of backflipping through hoops to get their input codified because of ISO 9000 prescribed forms that still want your employer organization's fax number listed. In fact, how this whole story played out on arXiv is a great example of the power of all hands on deck crowdsourced global fact checking in the broad noisy open realtime light of day. More claims should be subject to this kind of wide net scrutiny not less. (*Correction to post above it should read "ethnically Soviet" as pointed out below)
shepardrtc 3y ago
Ad Hominem attacks like this are what make me follow people like Iris more. I've both published and peer-reviewed research, and I've seen some hot garbage come from academics.

by dvt 3y ago

not-my-account 3y ago

A 4chan user solved a 25yo combinatorics problem. If it can be done there why not twitter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061

dvt 3y ago
This is a bad counter-argument. What do you think is the overwhelming product of ranting and raving of anime-picture "scientists" on Twitter: scientific muddying of waters that confuse laypeople and promulgate disinformation, or actual theorem-solving?
- jimmySixDOF 3y ago
  Anonymization is the only completely sane response to the completely crazy reach-impact spiral of data mining data broker platform TOS. Online persona(s) are private brands of built up real public social value over time and just because there is no officiated imprimatur's stamp of approval, doesn't mean you can exclude them without other cause from the real conversation walled off in ivory corporate towers of group think apprentice effected idea cloning orthodoxy. I know of a 3D graphics format interop workgroup at an official Standard Setting Organization where some of the main contributors are MAdjDuckSauce type handles and its caused no lack of backflipping through hoops to get their input codified because of ISO 9000 prescribed forms that still want your employer organization's fax number listed. In fact, how this whole story played out on arXiv is a great example of the power of all hands on deck crowdsourced global fact checking in the broad noisy open realtime light of day. More claims should be subject to this kind of wide net scrutiny not less. (*Correction to post above it should read "ethnically Soviet" as pointed out below)

shepardrtc 3y ago

Ad Hominem attacks like this are what make me follow people like Iris more. I've both published and peer-reviewed research, and I've seen some hot garbage come from academics.