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MarkusQ ◴[] No.46182578[source]
This is as much a failing of "peer review" as anything. Importantly, it is an intrinsic failure, which won't go away even if LLMs were to go away completely.

Peer review doesn't catch errors.

Acting as if it does, and thus assuming the fact of publication (and where it was published) are indicators of veracity is simply unfounded. We need to go back to the food fight system where everyone publishes whatever they want, their colleagues and other adversaries try their best to shred them, and the winners are the ones that stand up to the maelstrom. It's messy, but it forces critics to put forth their arguments rather than quietly gatekeeping, passing what they approve of, suppressing what they don't.

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1. tpoacher ◴[] No.46182703[source]
Peer review is as useless as code review and unit tests, yes.

It's much more useful if everyone including the janitor and their mom can have a say on your code before you're allowed to move to your next commit.

(/s, in case it's not obvious :D )