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[-] varmint@hexbear.net 82 points 3 days ago

We're witnessing the death of academia in real time. Knowledge acquisition will cease and we will descend into a pit of regurgitated slurry until this system collapses

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 39 points 3 days ago

we will descend into a pit of regurgitated slurry until this system collapses.

I guess that's this century in a nutshell.

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago

It kinda needs to happen in a lot of ways. I like academia on, like, a conceptual level, but "publish or perish" and the reproducibility crisis are imo signs of a deeply entrenched problem and I am not convinced it can be solved by reform. The breakdown of liberal academia is probably as inevitable and necessary as the breakdown of capitalism and liberalism.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

LLMs would just make the reproducibility crisis much worse.

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Definitely. I wouldn't be shocked if they play a role in the failure of liberal academia.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

mmmmmm regurgitated slurry

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