Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:58:54 UTC No. 16588252

>>16588223
>aliens manufacturing CPU
that's high quality retard bait

Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:02:18 UTC No. 16588259

>>16588252
TSMC will open some fabs in Arizona so some aliens might actually manufacture CPUs.

Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:54:52 UTC No. 16588358

weinstein is such a clown

Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:19:18 UTC No. 16588396

>>16588259
yep, common sense

Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:10:48 UTC No. 16588448

>>16588223
Weinstein describes a very common fallacious attitude people in the academia take towards authority figures. In a perfect world, academia would be free of authority bias. If some grad student from University of Wyoming points out a crucial mistake in Witten’s paper and the grad student’s reasoning is genuinely correct, then the scientific community should immediately retract the paper and thank the grad student for pointing in out.

But this is not the perfect world. Politics and clout permeates the very core of academia. Witten can pull a lot of strings (pun intended), whereas that grad student can’t. He can be vindictive (not saying he is, but he can). He can make sure the people who retracted the paper never get theirs published. None of this is guaranteed to happen, but people don’t want to risk their careers for the Truth. It is the unfortunate reality we live in. Academics are not Socrates who deliberately never asked for money for his services in opposition to sophists. They’re people making a living. It’s shit, but what can you do. Schopenhauer famously took Socrates’ approach, but he was a trust fund kid who only got recognized at the end of his life. Not everyone has that kind of autism and resources.