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Comment Re:Fix for that (Score 1) 29

It is a fact of life that papers are going to have AI generated writing in them going forward.

They're not banning AI generated writing, they're banning unverified content.

If they don't do that someone else is going to do it.

Go ahead. Do it then. The second queue already exists anyway. It's called a blog. Anyone can create one. And no one can prevent you from publishing to it, or from archiving those blogs permanently.

A single user can use AI to generate terabytes of unverified claims every single day. At some point, something has to give. Even with blogs, search engines will have to be judicious about what's worth indexing and what is just unverified noise.

Comment Re: Latex schmubs (Score 4, Informative) 50

The claim that "false premises invalidate everything built on them" only holds when the error is unrecoverable and propagates non-linearly.

But in many cases:

The error is consistent and quantifiable, so results can be recalibrated

The relational findings survive even if absolute values shift

The direction of effect holds even if the magnitude is off

A good counterexample of this is carbon dating. Early carbon dating used an assumed atmospheric C-14 ratio that turned out to be slightly wrong. The premise was false, but scientists didn't throw out decades of dating results. Instead, they developed calibration curves (using tree rings, coral, etc.) to correct the systematic offset.

Comment Re:By Design (Score 5, Insightful) 126

It wasn't so much the Trump administration firing people (although that did happen.) It was people quitting or retiring for the most part.

Yes, but when when you tell a scientist to uproot their entire life from DC and move to Kansas or to the middle of nowhere. And that even if they move, that the future of their agency is pretty much over, or at least put on life support.

That could be considered a form of constructive dismissal (even if they call it just "quitting").

Comment Re:Well, if you own it. (Score 1) 43

If it were a Chinese office with a Netherlands owning company, you can be sure the /. headline would be "Chinese Office Going Rogue Against Netherlands Owning Company".

That couldn't possibly happen!

Foreign companies (Tesla excepted) are not allowed to own more than 49% of Chinese-based companies/joint ventures.

Comment Re:Disabilities Act violation? (Score 1) 113

When you buy your ticket, you can just specify that you're disabled and that you need a paper ticket as a special accomodation. After all, they already have these questions for people who need other accomodations (for wheelchairs or food). It shouldn't be too hard to add one more to the list.

And for the passengers that don't have the foresight to check that box when they buy the ticket, I'll bet Ryan Air will be more than happy to supply a paper ticket for an extra $75 fee per boarding pass (or per leg of the journey).

Comment Re:can you get an dui in one / who (under the law) (Score 1) 18

Zoox doesn't have a steering wheel or pedals. You do not have control of it (except for the emergency red stop button).

Right now, Zoox can not even deviate from a hardcoded preprogrammed route, so it's a long ways to be true self-driving either.

Notice how the routes it does in San Francisco or in Vegas are always the same circuits.

Getting a DUI on it wouldn't make any sense.

Comment Re:well potus Musk will make short work of this (Score 2) 226

Tesla was the first one to run out of EV tax credits. That's because Tesla is the biggest EV car manufacturer in the US market and those tax credits are capped based on the number of units sold. In other words, those tax credits were mostly helping his smaller competitors, not Tesla.

As to the rest of his antics, I can't really explain them either.

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