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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
@lagrangeinterpolator @flaviat As someone working in computational physics, this is the current trend and it is kindof depressing. We see a lot of mid/shit tier papers focused on developing new LLM based database analyses for materials discovery and they all seem to actually suck. More generally in my area of expertise people use Deep Neural Netwoks all around with bazillion parameters, and since all physicists know that “you can fit any data with a high enough polynomial”, this is exactly what we were taught *not* to do.
I really wonder how people will look at this in the future because this is all I don’t like in science and will make me want to quit if it goes on for too long. For now I still trust that the bubble collapse will make it stop at some point.