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What is happening?

• wmf 7mo ago
  Human science being replaced by AI I guess.
  • Sharlin 7mo ago
    No, human mediocrity being replaced by AI. Mediocrity meaning papers that exist only to increment the magic "num_citations" variable.
• bryanrasmussen 7mo ago
  It is happening that people can now find out what articles are about by clicking the links to said articles and reading them! It's an amazing world, man. The future!
  • guerrilla 7mo ago
    Nope, the site is down.
    • bryanrasmussen 7mo ago
      OK, when I posted it wasn't and it isn't now. but a quote from the opening: "For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state of hep-th for quite a while. Sabine Hossenfelder today has AI Is Bringing “The End of Theory”, in which she gives her cynical take that the past system of grant-holding PIs using grad students/postdocs to produce lots of mediocre papers with the PI’s name on them is about to change dramatically. "
• Sharlin 7mo ago
  The end of mediocrity, optimistically speaking. Getting so flooded in mediocrity that the gems are lost in the noise, pessimistically speaking.
• babblingfish 7mo ago
  The number of submissions to high energy physics category on arXiv is double this year compared to the historical average. The author hypothesizes the increase is due to papers being written by LLMs.
• blibble 7mo ago
  the collapse of the signal to noise ratio in every domain, simultaneously essentially, the end of the progress of humanity