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As someone who follows a ton of AI researchers on Twitter, I find this list totally out of touch with the reality on the field.

I know Slashdot is read by old timers, but this is lame.

Romanticizing the past much? Slashdot 1998 had Ogg the caveman, frosty piss, hot grits on Ms Portman, among other vulgarities, ON EVERY STORY.

Good job, YouTube!

The world is gana end soon.

Frienster, MySpace, Orkut, Google+, and (gasp) Apache Wave.

I am sick and tired of postmodern Kuhn "paradigm shift-type get-people-to-agree-with-us-and-then-we-win" type of physicists.

How about Popper's "get your hypothesis falsifiable or go join the woo-woos"?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d...

About 20 years ago, Google demonstrated to (a shocked community) that the opinions of a large population can be aggregated to achieve some form of collective intelligence. This observation transformed the world, gave us innovative products like Waze, and eventually led to the rise of the Big Data industry.

Now, we have seen how the system is hacked, infiltrated, censored, manipulated, to fit some narrative. Reflecting on 20 years of awe, I am grateful that it held out that long.

You are right. I have sinned against the order. I hereby swear off Slashdot and return to my rightful place to do real work that will actually benefit mankind.

In many scientific fields, especially mathematics (which is of course not technically a science but that's not the point here so let's not argue about that), results are often not interesting unless they are "surprising". Hence the tendency to exxegerate things.

There are also the occasions when scientists are pessimistic about certain results, and when these turned out well, they become pleasantly surprised.

So are scientists lying when they say they are surprised? No, they are indeed surprised. However, the level of surprise is low. It's a figure of speech.

For us to be alarmed, we would have to be "shocked" and "in disbelief".

The SJW crowd must be brought back to sanity -- we can't just make them go away by killing them. That's against the law.

Instead of forcing them to a corner, we have to think of strategies that will provide sufficient room to reflect upon their wrongdoings and start the healing. We also need to come up with alternative ego-boosting chores for them to channel their energy towards rather than their current divisive passtime.

OK I am a right wing nut job. With meme magic. Feels good man.

Because their "corrupt" thought may be more reasonable than your "virtuous" thought.

Ha. Try get a paper published first, big mouth.