I saw a bunch of people dragging this study based on the recruitment emails back in the spring. But it seems to have resulted in empirical evidence for exactly the critiques those people wanted to make! arxiv.org/abs/2606.08251
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D. Hicks
philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50
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Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science arxiv.org
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