Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to create an uncensoring "science ...
by ChrisMartin33 on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:57AM
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You are right of course, every scientific paper, even peer reviewed, even published in the "best" journals, can be total BS.
I thought about just analyzing the conclusions. And to pick out whether they write "one might draw the conclusion" or "we have proven that...." I think that could be useful, although I am aware that in reality they might still have proven nothing.
Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to create an uncensoring "science ...
by gus_massa on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:10AM
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In my area, I always ask who is the author team. There are a few and many are well known.
If it's team A, I'm almost sure it's correct. But I check anyway.
If it's team B then "Press X To Doubt". It's probably not wrong, but perhaps oversold.
Anyway, reading a paper is quite difficult. Some results expresed like facts in the abstract or conclusions are not fully suported in the data. You should always read the full paper. For now, it's difficult for an AI to distinguish facts from bulshit.
(I remember a few physics paper that prove strange things, but when you reed the proof it has an aditional hypothesis in the middle of the proof. The hypothesis makes sense in the physics context, but in math all the hypothesis must be in the text of the theorem.)