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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Well shit I didn't expect this to be relevant again so quickly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Once you’ve eliminated the cause for NATO, then dissolving NATO will make sense.

The cause for NATO was eliminated. NATO didn't dissolve. It grew. Spoiler alert: there are no good guys in a war between imperialists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'd say there are three pieces, each feeding into the next.

  1. A Culture Favouring Novelty Over Replication - There are no Nobel prizes for replicating findings. There is no Fields medal for roundly and soundly refuting the findings of a paper. There is no reputation to be built in dedicating oneself to replication efforts. All incentives push towards novel, novel, novel.
  2. Funding Follows Culture - Nobody wants to pay twice for a result (much less thrice) especially if there's a chance that you'll expose the result as Actually Wrong on the second or third go.
  3. Publish or Perish - Scientists have material needs -- both personally and for their actual work -- acquired through funding. That funding demands the publishing of novelty. If your results aren't novel, then they won't get published (not anywhere that matters, anyway). And if you don't get published (where it matters), then you don't get funded. And if you don't get funded, you perish. And so the circle of scientific life is complete.

At every step, the incentives involved in the production of science are, ironically, rewarding un-scientific behaviour and ignoring -- if not outright punishing -- actual science. Until replication is seen as an equal to novelty, this regime will persist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. CONFESS THAT YOU ARE A BOT.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You won't see this, but... the Lemmy devs are Marxists, not right-wingers. Lemmygrad is definitely Marxist (Leninist). Lemmy.ml is left-wingers of all types.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

The companies hawking e-cars have much larger advertising accounts with NYT than those hawking e-bikes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, BOINC is right there, with far more useful work for your idle GPU to do.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It looks like a summary ("Insight") of the same paper:

This Insight is based on a study that seeks to address this gap, offering a comprehensive examination of a left-wing extremist community on Reddit known as β€˜tankies’.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Oh. This is the same article that we tore to shreds several months ago back when it first popped up on arxiv:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/988070

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It’s crazy they politicized emojis πŸ™„β€¦

Wait until you hear about what they did to language!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The problem is chatgpt will say you the wrong answer confidently unlike humans

We must be hanging around different humans.

 

By Derek Cai BBC News

US President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraiser in California.

His remarks come a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Mr Xi for talks in Beijing, which were aimed at easing tensions between the two superpowers.

Mr Xi said some progress had been made in Beijing, while Mr Blinken indicated both sides were open to more talks.

China is yet to respond to Mr Biden's comments.

President Biden, at the fundraiser on Tuesday night local time, also said Mr Xi was embarrassed over the recent tensions around a Chinese spy balloon that had been blown off course over the US.

"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset, in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it, was he didn't know it was there," Mr Biden said.

"That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened."

Mr Blinken's visit to Beijing - the first by a top US diplomat in almost five years - restarted high-level communications between the two countries. Both Mr Biden and Mr Xi hailed it as a welcome development. But Mr Blinken made clear that major differences remain between the two countries.

Washington and Beijing have long locked horns over an array of issues including trade, human rights, and Taiwan.

But relations have especially deteriorated in the past year. With the US election looming and tensions with China emerging as a political issue, some Republican senators have attacked the Biden administration for being "soft" on China.

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