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MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

(economics.mit.edu)
386 points carabiner | 10 comments | 16 May 25 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 1.485s | source | bottom
1. coderintherye ◴[16 May 25 19:32 UTC] No.44009020[source]▶
Nice Twitter thread from Nov '24 analyzing the paper: https://x.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/1856273405965693430
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2. andy99 ◴[16 May 25 19:57 UTC] No.44009244[source]▶
Is there a way for not Twitter users to read these?
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3. madars ◴[16 May 25 20:02 UTC] No.44009297[source]▶
Yeah, replace x.com with xcancel.com or nitter.poast.org, e.g., https://xcancel.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/18562734059656934...
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4. drdeca ◴[16 May 25 20:06 UTC] No.44009330[source]▶
Yes, https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
5. raphman ◴[16 May 25 20:08 UTC] No.44009357[source]▶
Thanks. On Twitter, Ethan Mollick seems to imply that Robert Palgrave might be the scientist that triggered the investigation.
6. genewitch ◴[16 May 25 23:14 UTC] No.44010643{3}[source]▶
While poast works, I strongly feel most people on this site are not aligned with what poast represents. Graf has to spend a lot of time (and time = money) getting accounts set up to run nitter, and it would suck if the views of poast users wound up costing the internet a twitter mirror.

I strongly recommend people not investigate this unless they think 4chan is quaint. As in, if the reason you are not using X is because of the outrage at Elon and the "typical user" of X, then maybe use xcancel instead.

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7. kurisufag ◴[17 May 25 01:26 UTC] No.44011330{4}[source]▶
fwiw i believe strongly that there would not still be a nitter without graf's work on it.

in the space of working on cool shit, he's good people. see: moldbug and urbit, for a similar case.

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8. genewitch ◴[17 May 25 05:06 UTC] No.44012163{5}[source]▶
oh, totally. I was hoping to avoid people going "i wonder what poast is", but Graf said they've been backlinked before and it's no big deal; but i can't remove my earlier comment.

So i guess i misread!

9. BlueTemplar ◴[17 May 25 10:37 UTC] No.44013340{4}[source]▶
4chan is probably still 'better' than Xitter : not only it's open web, it's also not taken 'seriously'.

Twitter's issues long predate Musk : for instance Mastodon was created as a reaction to the 2012 APIpocalypse.

10. michaelcampbell ◴[17 May 25 12:37 UTC] No.44013847[source]▶
> Nice Twitter thread

That's a paradox. Maybe it's just me but if you need more than 3 "posts" to say something, put it in a blog and link to it from Twitter. That was excruciating to try and get through (which I failed at doing.)