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And so on. I could bet that some of his scientific questions where generated, and that's no surprise to me, it's just SO easy this way and if the PhD advisor just says "ok that's good" and no one ever complain during the PhD defense then for sure this will keep going.
But regarding OP's link, when Lemire says I kept my mouth shut. I am never rude on purpose. You can't say that and complain that academia "is blown to bits". It's your responsibility as a scientist to step up and say that some research is garbage when you see it.
For instance, would it be affordable for a research lab to not rely on OpenAI?
What about doing something meaningful like, how they say, fix grandma's printer...
I tried once to read Terence Tao's Analysis I [2], it's really good but my main problem was that I wasn't able to know if my proofs are correct when I do an exercise. So maybe the solution is to get a teacher.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Mathematical_Ana...
Anyone knows if such books exist?
My hope is that one day or another whatsapp will enshittify so bad that people will be more prone to move to Signal in the same way that recently Windows got so bad that many users moved to Linux.