the reaction to the arXiv slop penalty is the gift
"So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate" GOOD LORD WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING IN THERE THEN
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@davidgerard You mean we have to do the shit we should've already been doing?
@davidgerard As a teacher, researcher, and editor, the outrage at the idea that an author needs to—as a bare fucking minimum—actually know that what they are citing EXISTS makes me want to walk into the sea. Then again, what doesn't make me want to walk into the sea these days?
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I've been terrified of academic publishing for my entire career, thinking I'm not good enough. But it turns out the expectations are in the toilet. What a fucking waste of a decade.
@Rhodium103 luca ambrogioni: the cure for academic imposter syndrome
@davidgerard Seems I have to change the "Science works" in my profile to "Science used to work".
@davidgerard Ha, this is like the nonsense about producing X thousand lines of code to make a claim for quality.
Neither "AI", its makers, nor the troglodytes celebrating it understand the point of well considered research and output. Whether that be in code or academic writing.
@davidgerard when you ask llm boosters to mean things instead of just say them
@davidgerard You'd think people wouldn't be so upset. I thought the entire idea of a citation was, "I read this thing and am using their ideas in furtherance of my own." They aren't there as an appeal to authority. They actually serve a purpose.
@trashpanda look you'll be left behind with that sort of thinking
@davidgerard …wat? I mean, yes? I do expect paper authors to check all the references in their papers or trust sufficiently that the other authors will do so? Why would you coauthor a paper with someone you don’t trust to do rigorous science?
