In his book Zero to One, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel argues that modern scientific innovation is no longer groundbreaking.
I wasted a click.
I'd argue that venture capitalists are the cause of lack of scientific breakthroughs.
Are we going to hear about enshittification in academia, too? Ugh.
Enshittification is pump-and-dump for companies over years instead of stocks over days/months.
Academia's problems with replication and funding for null/negative results have been known about for a while and are a separate problem. I guess it could be argued that they're related in that maybe an academic's career shouldn't be based on the profit cycle of their institution.
And yet you saved me one; that's zero to one at least!
I still wasted a click after reading this because I thought, "no way is this article on science dedicated to that Lizard Person".
And I was right, but only because it's not really an article, much less about science. It's more like a business experiment to find out if this particular LLM "author", which generates disconnected gobblygook, can save them significant CapEx over a more expensive AI model that would output articles with something more closely resembling a coherent thought process, or being written by a human.
I wasted a click.
I'd argue that venture capitalists are the cause of lack of scientific breakthroughs.
Are we going to hear about enshittification in academia, too? Ugh.
Enshittification is pump-and-dump for companies over years instead of stocks over days/months.
Academia's problems with replication and funding for null/negative results have been known about for a while and are a separate problem. I guess it could be argued that they're related in that maybe an academic's career shouldn't be based on the profit cycle of their institution.
And yet you saved me one; that's zero to one at least!
I still wasted a click after reading this because I thought, "no way is this article on science dedicated to that Lizard Person".
And I was right, but only because it's not really an article, much less about science. It's more like a business experiment to find out if this particular LLM "author", which generates disconnected gobblygook, can save them significant CapEx over a more expensive AI model that would output articles with something more closely resembling a coherent thought process, or being written by a human.