Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
5hr ago
I think it’s relevant that this happened in Europe. America had its reckoning with race-studies scholars of questionable quality a few years ago. The threat of being called-up to Capitol Hill for sworn testimony and having your university’s federal funding cut seems to have put the fear of God back into university administrators. They would be scared to engage in this blatant of a cover-up on this side of the pond.
Ghent University sociology professors ought to be careful what they wish for right now.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
But maybe I'm just biased because I can't imagine a pretty feminine woman like Zendaya ever really being a school shooter.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Someone needs to do an old-school Glenn Beck-style chalkboard conspiracy diagram connecting everyone in the SF effective altruism/AI community. Daniela Amodei (Dario’s sister) is married to GiveWell and Open Philanthropy founder Holden Karnofsky. Im not sure what this means, but I’m sure it means something.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Laughing my ass off at the idea of ChatGPT translating some Korean grunt's journal entry as, "you're right, today's victory not only ensures the survival of worker's communism, but ten thousand years of Kim Il Sung."
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Usually when one wants a rock moved one hires a local firm. This local firm owns or rents an earthmover. At no point do you have to worry about whether Caterpillar Inc. will charge a licensing fee or have an opinion on whether or not the rock ought to be moved.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
I'll say it. Jason Arday did the only truly honorable thing he could do in this situation. Western truthseeking institutions can only benefit if the socialy-expected response to being exposed as a complete academic fraud becomes to seek Canadian healthcare.
The state of Arday’s subfield (sociology of education) is so bad that Arday’s entirely fraudulent work is not of meaningfully lower-quality than the median output.
After leaning more about his work and its context, I would like to retract my previous statement. To paraphrase Bismarck, the integrity of sociology of education research is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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