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This is less an article about AI and more about, one of the less talked about functions of a PhD program is becoming literate at “reading” academic claims beyond their face value.

None of the claims made in the article are surprising because they’re the natural outgrowth of the hodgepodge of incentives we’ve accreted as what we call “science” over time and you just need to practice over time to be able to place the output of science in the proper context and understand that a “paper” is an artifact of a sociotechnical system with all the entailing complexity that demands.




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