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I think the author was a bit too confident in their farming out of research to Claude. For instance, the claim that "at least 9 Chinese bridges have been built
by daemonologist 10mo ago
I think the author was a bit too confident in their farming out of research to Claude. For instance, the claim that "at least 9 Chinese bridges have been built that would span the English Channel" is obviously false.
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Railway viaducts (built mostly over land):
- Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge
- Tianjin Grand Bridge
- Cangde Grand Bridge
- Weinan Weihe Grand Bridge
- Beijing Grand Bridge
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Not actually long enough to span the channel (excluding access roads etc.):
- Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (main bridge is 30km)
- Jiaozhou Bay Bridge (all three legs combined total 26 km over water)
- Runyang Yangtze River Bridge (total length of two-bridge complex is 7.2 km)
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Could actually span the channel (setting aside differences in water depth and whatnot):
- Hangzhou Bay Bridge
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Not to say all of these projects are not extremely impressive, or that the article doesn't have a point. But making claims like this undermines the author's credibility, at least in my eyes.
- fragmede 10mo agoI guess one of the new careers being expanded is rigorous fact checker.
- echelon_musk 10mo agoI almost read beyond Part 1's introduction before looking at the comments. But thanks to your comment I now know it was written with an AI and that makes me want to stop here. If the author is asking an LLM to confirm his biases in order to make his point it will probably contain sycophantic hallucinations. Britain is broke. That's probably all there is to say.
- driverdan 10mo agoYou can tell it's mostly AI slop by all of the unnecessary and inconsistent use of bold type throughout.