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It was interesting seeing real peer reviewed science from accredited labs like LLNL and Fermi get brushed aside and almost dismissed while people were cheering
by duringmath 3y ago
It was interesting seeing real peer reviewed science from accredited labs like LLNL and Fermi get brushed aside and almost dismissed while people were cheering on this LK-99 thing.
Not sure what to make of that but that's what I'll remember most about this debacle.
- chrononaut 3y agoThat's what I most remember too from this.
- carabiner 3y agoLLNL and Fermi did peer reviewed research on LK-99? Links?
- duringmath 3y agoThey published followup papers on fusion ignition and strange muon behavior respectively.
- carabiner 3y agoOh ok. Mainstream media reported on fusion ignition #2 while (rightfully) ignoring LK-99. I think the takeaway here is just how bad techbros are at evaluating hard science.
- mellosouls 3y agoIts kind of like a "nice/fun" flip-side of the anti-science internet experts we saw during covid, although I think the people at the forefront this time were genuinely pro-science and positively motivated.
- winwang 3y agoThat's an interesting take. Crackpots and overhyped layman being a dual of anti-science. What would we call that? Well, I guess we'd normally talk about that stuff as science fiction.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoI didn't follow it too closely because I didn't see how it could be anything but a nothingburger. I think the internet got high off LLM success and expected nonstop breakthroughs like entitled children.