Welcome everyone to the Saturday Spotlights: a public open thread where you can talk about something about everything (or everything about something).
This could be discussions about the recent posts you read on Substack, the recent movie/show you watched this week, non-creepy memes link, or anything in general!
Don’t hesitate to share whatever you like: Questions, Suggestions, Views about CB, Plugging your Substack piece, or even a simple ‘hello’. Anything is welcomed, as long as it is respectful and civil.
As always, I’ll go first.
I.
“Two systems of thinking” on the Decoder
The Decoder, an online publication that 'bridges AI science, politics, and business', was kind enough to publish my essay on AI and ‘Two systems of thinking’on their platform. You can view this article in both English and German versions on their website, unpaywalled.
So if you are a reader who likes to view this, you can view it here. For the German version of this article, go here.
Plus, the theme of the website feels more ‘techy’ with pleasant UX. Moreover, they use AI-generated thumbnails for almost all of the articles on their platform - which are far better than those on CB (ouch!).
I shared a news article about LK-99 in this week’s omf, which you can check it out here.
It is not quite a new thing when someone in the scientific community comes up with a radical ‘new discovery’, and it goes viral on Twitter/X. Arxiv papers, articles from science websites, and countless self-promos of the research circulate around the Bird/X app.
Recently, the superconductor LK-99 - a superconductor that allegedly works at room temperature - made several rounds on the platform itself. Currently, two papers concerning LK-99 are available on arXiv.
The following video by one of the authors, Hyun-Tak Kim, started the Twitter/X frenzy -
And interestingly enough, the William & Mary physics research professor said that the preprint was uploaded to arXiv without his permission.
ArXiv is an open-access non-peer review repository that has preprints and postprint papers.
Of course, if LK-99 is really a room-temperature superconductor, then this is a revolutionary finding. But scientists are sceptical about this finding. First and obvious, this paper defies the perceived golden standard of being peer-reviewed. It is not a peer-reviewed paper. Second, the verge reports that there were inconsistencies in the data and that the two preprints disagreed with each other.
There’s reportedly also conflict between the authors (there are three authors named on one paper and six on the other)
If this finding is indeed legit, this could easily be under the radar of the Nobel Prize. Till then, it is and will be under the radars of countless memes and scepticisms — especially on Twitter/X.
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LK-99, AI and Great Filter | Saturday Spotlights #2
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Welcome everyone to the Saturday Spotlights: a public open thread where you can talk about something about everything (or everything about something).
This could be discussions about the recent posts you read on Substack, the recent movie/show you watched this week, non-creepy memes link, or anything in general!
Don’t hesitate to share whatever you like: Questions, Suggestions, Views about CB, Plugging your Substack piece, or even a simple ‘hello’. Anything is welcomed, as long as it is respectful and civil.
As always, I’ll go first.
I.
“Two systems of thinking” on the Decoder
The Decoder, an online publication that 'bridges AI science, politics, and business', was kind enough to publish my essay on AI and ‘Two systems of thinking’ on their platform. You can view this article in both English and German versions on their website, unpaywalled.
So if you are a reader who likes to view this, you can view it here. For the German version of this article, go here.
Plus, the theme of the website feels more ‘techy’ with pleasant UX. Moreover, they use AI-generated thumbnails for almost all of the articles on their platform - which are far better than those on CB (ouch!).
II.
The LK-99 ‘Twitter Frenzy’
(Link)
I shared a news article about LK-99 in this week’s omf, which you can check it out here.
It is not quite a new thing when someone in the scientific community comes up with a radical ‘new discovery’, and it goes viral on Twitter/X. Arxiv papers, articles from science websites, and countless self-promos of the research circulate around the Bird/X app.
Recently, the superconductor LK-99 - a superconductor that allegedly works at room temperature - made several rounds on the platform itself. Currently, two papers concerning LK-99 are available on arXiv.
The following video by one of the authors, Hyun-Tak Kim, started the Twitter/X frenzy -
And interestingly enough, the William & Mary physics research professor said that the preprint was uploaded to arXiv without his permission.
ArXiv is an open-access non-peer review repository that has preprints and postprint papers.
Of course, if LK-99 is really a room-temperature superconductor, then this is a revolutionary finding. But scientists are sceptical about this finding. First and obvious, this paper defies the perceived golden standard of being peer-reviewed. It is not a peer-reviewed paper. Second, the verge reports that there were inconsistencies in the data and that the two preprints disagreed with each other.
The Verge report quoted.
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If this finding is indeed legit, this could easily be under the radar of the Nobel Prize. Till then, it is and will be under the radars of countless memes and scepticisms — especially on Twitter/X.
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