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Where do you see the authors? All I'm seeing is:

>Anonymous authors

>Paper under double-blind review

Either op mistakes the hallucinated citations for the authors (most likely, although there's almost no "middle eastern names" among them) Or he checked some that do have the names listed (I found 4, all had either Chinese names or "western" names) Anyway the great majority of papers (good or bad) I've seen have Indian or Chinese names attached, attributing bad papers to brown people having an inferior culture is just blatantly racist

you can google the papers and find the arxiv articles where the authors are listed

Yeah WTF? Both authors and reviewers are hidden. Is this comment just an attempt to whip up racist fervor?

Don't understand why you're being downvoted, here.

Because the second sentence is inflammatory.

The side comment is right, it's about low versus high trust societies. Even if GP made a mistake on which names are relevant, they're not being racist about it.

Yes, on looking more closely it’s possible that they made an honest mistake.

In that case, the edit button exists. It seems rather late in the day to be erring on the side of the benefit of the doubt in every case, for things like this. Much of the population is unabashedly, vociferously, aggressively racist and proud of it, these days.

> In that case, the edit button exists. It seems rather late in the day to be erring on the side of the benefit of the doubt

The edit button exists for 2 hours and this is not a person that frequently comments.

> That's one opinion. Here's another - they were waiting with their commentary locked and loaded, and failed to even read the source material in any detail before unloading it.

Well almost a day later they replied "you can google the papers and find the arxiv articles where the authors are listed". Unless that is a blatant lie, it seems like a pretty good reason to think they're using good-faith and non-racist reasoning here.

That's one opinion. Here's another - they were waiting with their commentary locked and loaded, and failed to even read the source material in any detail before unloading it.

They're making broad assertions about specific societies, when those assertions are in this instance in no way related to TFA.

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