historic drystone sheep dykeMar 10
Thousands of people forming delusional 1-person math cults after talking to a computer simulacrum of human speech is some shit philip k dick would cross out because it’s too depressing
Show threadColman ReillyMar 10
@hannah I’m afraid to ask what you’re talking about.
Show threadNeo EhproqueMar 10
@Colman @hannah people who become delusional through talking too much to ChatGPT
Show threadColman Reilly

@ehproque @hannah maths cranks aren’t new. Used to drive every maths and physics dept mad even in the 80s and before.

Retired engineers were a particular problem if I remember rightly.

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Show threadJohn McChesney-YoungMar 11
@Colman @ehproque @hannah Some years ago I read that the most effective way physicists could weed out crank papers was to toss the ones in MS Word instead of LaTeX .