As was pointed out on Twitter, this paper, while amusing, should not have made it through arXiv moderation, as the arXiv specifically prohibits "joke" submissions in favor of papers which are, at least ostensibly, serious scientific contributions.
To me, this undermines the credibility of the other content since the "joke" tries to portray as genuine by being published on arxiv. It sort of dilutes to credibility of others.
Arxiv isn’t supposed to be a badge of credibility. It’s literally the place any academic can dump a paper to have it stored free forever. Many academic papers that never make it into journals are stored there. From their homepage they say:
> Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv
That said, they shouldn’t actively accept joke papers of course.
Which is good, since people shouldn't get the impression that arxiv implies credibility
There is normally at least a credibility of "this is earnest work"
What outlet of serious rational reviews and outputs should be considered?
It has "Comments: This is a silly article". Was that not there initially?
Impossible Foods is definitely going to fork this.
Could someone give me a good pointer for Proof of Stake? Most of websites I can find are just bag of buzzword and totally useless.
>Animal welfare and rights are also crucial for creating a trustworthy
and reliable Proof-of-Steak platform. We go beyond traditional
animal welfare requirements by affording our animals all of the
rights granted to “natural persons” under the GDPR. To comply with
GDPR Article 25 on data protection by design, we use differential
privacy and distributed analytics [2] to obfuscate the identity of
any given Kobe cow so as to prevent them from being singled out.
Ok, that's pretty funny.
But bovine livestock is a massive contributor to global warming!
Comments: This is a silly article
wtf I love crypto now
The crypto hate/trolling is getting very boring here on HN. Do we really have to relitigate this every single day? Flagging.