Why study one thing when you can study all the things?
Philosopher of chemistry, postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, PhD from Cambridge HPS (she/her)
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Very strange that it seems some people see citations as essentially flavour text to puff up your credibility and not a mechanism to provide crucial context and foundational information which your work relies on
@FAZ_Feuilleton Dieser Text geht sowohl am Stand der Wissenschaft als auch an der Kritik an Alice Schwarzer völlig vorbei. Traurig, dass es so ein bodenlos schlecht recherchierter Text in die FAZ schafft
@sam_rosenfeld To paraphrase Tolstoy, all AI written papers are crappy in a similar fashion, whereas human written papers are all crappy in their own special way.
@TheLincoln Deliberate ignorance issue? Not very catchy. But it needs to be highlighted that this isn't just not knowing, it's not wanting to know and making a show of it
@focusfronting Ironically, the more more conservative choice seems less Catholic in this instance. If the pope says it's fine, who is a random priest to question that? Sure, allowing isn't mandating, but still seems a tad heretic to assume you could know better than the pope
Edited volumes are fantastic, as they bring together such a diverse mix of talents: guy who missed the deadline; guy who significantly missed the deadline; and guy who forgot they agreed to contribute
@kareem_carr Also, that old theories can still be useful models! Even if we know they're not the final truth, discarding a theory and never looking at it again once you have a shiny new thing is not actually how a lot of science works