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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Part 1: https://mander.xyz/post/13579080
I like the sentiment, but there are non-peer reviewed papers that are real science. Politics and funding are real things, and there is a bit of gatekeeping here, which isn't really good IMHO.
Also, reproducibility is a sticky subject, especially with immoral experiments (which can still be the product of science, however unsavory), or experiments for which there are only one apparatus in the world (e.g., some particle physics).
I've seen published scientific papers that were written by chatgpt, complete with prompts.
Academic Journals frantically spinning up botnets to retweet this
Shoveling cavendish into a locker
They both come across as pompous asses in this one.
If you develop a product in secret, take it to market, and make a fortune off it, far more people will know your name than almost any scientist.
Spot on
They've been feuding for a while so I'd be surprised if they both didn't try to one-up the other insufferably.
Every time I see Elon's picture in one of these posts, my brain tells me he's wearing an Ant Man costume.
it's worse than that, he's in a WoW costume or something similar.
Well somebody is about to find his Twitter account closed for a spurious reason.
But my freeze peach!
There's private company r&d science and military science as well, even though those aren't academic science with it's peer review and publication.
I agree that for it to be science it needs to be reproducible, but obviously publication could happen internally. It just ends up as science that no one else can benefit from, which is contrary to what most scientists actually want.
Musk is just an ass who doesn’t want to share his toys.
The part 1 when musk was like "that's nothing" to 40 publications per year. Lmao what a fucking dumbass.
Yann LeCun is not a good person, but at least he's significantly smarter than Elon
He bought a blue checkmark.
I wish he was even smarter so that he would choose not to play chess with a pigeon.
I really don't mind him making Musk look like an idiot
I know nothing about him, what did he do?
For starters, he’s both French and works for Meta. 😏
But beyond that, from a professional perspective this guy has pioneered so much stuff that we take for granted today; like check scanning and OCR. I mean he is touted as one of the godfathers of ai.
French
Moeder van God...
Imagine telling Yann LeCun what is and isn’t right when it comes to science
honestly LeCun should know better than to argue with a crazy person.
it doesn't matter how right he is, musk will turn everything around and have fun while doing it.
The Musk likely knows who and what he himself is, even if only in the darkest and most sleepless hours of the night, but on the other hand, his followers eat this shit up like candy. "Survival of the fittest" - caveat: in the current climate, or rather the one from the last few decades - has led to him being put in charge of way more than he should, in the same manner that a cockroach is "fitter" than humans since they will outlast our having caused WWIII (unless we make it to space, which seems increasingly unlikely at this point, at least within any of our current lifetimes).
Anyway, it is important to remember that he does not do this for reason of mere stupidity - he literally gets paid to dish out this kind of shade.
Edit: case in point, the fact that we are discussing this now, and also the title of this post. If Elon had said "I respect you", that would have been the end of the matter right there, but it would not have met his goals (or apparently, ours either).
thanks to melon tusk, i don't have to