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Aryeh Kontorovich @aryehazan

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Aryeh Kontorovich ✔️ @aryehazan · 22h
ok, math and cs is not 80% fake nonsense

but I heard a senior colleague opine that some 80-85% of all published papers add zero value and nothing would be lost if they hadn't been published

I tend to concur

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Adam Wren ✔️ @aswren · Aug 2
I know this is obvious to everyone that follows me but it's not just Jason Arday. Academia is 80% fake nonsense. Towers of abstraction with no basis in reality and they believe they should govern the world because they've given …

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Daniel Litt ✔️ @littmath · 5h
One thing that would be lost is the human expertise developed in the course of their production, which has  arguably always been the main justification for most (though far from all) papers.
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Tweet thread debating whether 80% of academic papers add zero value, starting from Adam Wren's claim about academia being 'fake nonsense', with Aryeh Kontorovich partially agreeing for math/CS, and Daniel Litt noting the counter-value of expertise development.

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@Ilya_Kuprov

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Ilya Kuprov ✓ @Ilya_Kuprov · Aug 1
I remember the panic and disarray that AlphaFold created in the molecular dynamics community. An impossible problem was suddenly… solved. Whole PhD projects collapsed, we had students in tears stumbling down corridors. It would seem now's the turn of the Mathematics Department.
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Tweet by Ilya Kuprov recalling the disruption AlphaFold caused in molecular dynamics research, and suggesting mathematics departments are next to be disrupted by AI.

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman

@blekhman (Ran Blekhman) — 17h Claude Science is incredible. I gave it some sequencing data, and in 8 hours it did a full analysis, generated figures, wrote a paper, submitted it for publication, got rejected, revised and resubmitted, got rejected again, it is now applying for positions in industry
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Single joke tweet about an AI research-automation tool ("Claude Science") satirizing the academic publishing grind; no images.

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Niloofar, icml @niloofar_mire

Niloofar ✈️ icml ✓ [orange badge icon] @niloofar_mire · 1h #OnlyinSF interactions I have: - what do you do for work? + I'm a professor - oh but what will u do post AGI/RSI, we won't need universities anymore, you're gonna be PERMANENT UNDERCLASS 💀 + i'll do whatever u do when anthropic adds ur claude wrapper startup idea as an add-on.
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Text-only post, dialogue formatted with -/+ prefixes; no images.

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Neel Nanda @NeelNanda5

Neel Nanda ✓ @NeelNanda5 · 9m If someone didn't cite you, send them a polite email! I have been on both sides of this and it's always been resolved amicably. It's typically out of not knowing rather than malice. Worst case you get ignored or discover a genuine difference in opinion about the work's relevance
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Neel Nanda (prominent mechanistic-interpretability researcher at DeepMind) offers academic-norms advice about handling missed citations. Minor research-culture item; Nanda is a figure whose interpretability work is directly relevant to Nathan's interests, though this particular tweet is about academic etiquette rather than technical content.

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