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 [quoted tweet:] 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 … 12 replies, 8 reposts, 256 likes, 13K views 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.