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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Haha I love Gell-Mann amnesia. A few weeks ago there was news about speeding up the internet to gazillion bytes per nanosecond and it turned out to be fake.

Now this thing is all over the internet and everyone believes it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The source paper is available online, is published in a peer reviewed journal, and has over 600 citations. I'm inclined to believe it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

You sound like a person who hasn't been peer reviewed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Well one reason is that this is basically exactly the thing current AI is perfect for - detecting patterns.