Idea for intellectual activism: Create an anti-journal.
Find a bad journal, create anti-JOURNAL_NAME.com, and every time they publish an article, upload an article with the same name, written by an LLM, picking it apart.
Find a bad journal, create anti-JOURNAL_NAME.com, and every time they publish an article, upload an article with the same name, written by an LLM, picking it apart.
People who have been in research fields develop a felt sense that most "research" (in almost any field that isn't exactingly technical) is research theater, and many superstar careers enjoy star status not because of a unique connection to the truth but because of a unique connection with an audience. No one really has the time or stature to, from a position of objectivity and trust, bring popular researchers to heel. But it will get increasingly hard to hide from serious critique. The machines can do critique now, at the level of depth and rigor previously only possible for the academically deranged. We're going to have to revise a lot of what we "know" about the world that isn't really knowledge but is actually just received popular consensus - like floating voltages without grounding wires. The grounding wires are coming.View quoted post on X
