Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Just because a Twitter said it's over doesn't mean it's over. Prediction markets still think there's a ~1/5 chance of it being legit.
This is basically the epitome of postmodernism these people love dunking on. There's no external truth, only utterances. When prediction markets have hegemony, that will be Truth.
unlike you, science-believing simpletons, i get truth about the world from the only reliable source: weighted average of gut feelings of gamblers pretending to be day traders
HN user tarsinge putting it perfectly here
A based take on markets. I agree with this statement.
I nominate the term "orange poster" (and possibly "orange poaster" for the rats) henceforth
It is a very highly resistive poor quality material. Period. No point in fighting with the truth. Data have spoken.
The way this phrase is worded is weird in my opinion. It sounds more like a political statement rather than a scientific one.
This isn't the first unprofessional message from that Twitter account during the lk99 saga. Their biased tone makes them untrustworthy. Even more than anime girl et al
I keep seeing posts exactly like these from the orange site’s top minds. it’s not doing what they think it’s doing for their reputation as science understanders. shit, anyone who’s hung around in a lab when a result won’t replicate knows the tone of that tweet
Haha it's [flagged] now. The fragile orangicity :D
Hard to say if it's violent disagreement or that the link is perceived to be "broken".
that thread is mind numbingly stupid even for HN
superior rationalists trained by EY are obviously better than anyone else, how they dare to come against them with some flimsy "empirical evidence" smh
it's like with metamed but without the actual thing
and also, that alleged levitation video on bilibili, author already admitted that it was fraud. wonder how orange site reacts to that development https://www.tomshardware.com/news/lk-99-video-fraud-taken-down
the orange site seems to have flagged the linked thread to death, but check out the currently active thread for more of the worst takes available on why this having all of the hallmarks of scientific fraud doesn’t matter, how dare we make value judgements
I'm wryly amused that of all people, the rats putting their dismal hopes into the prediction markets not going to zero are the ones screeching about scientism.
This Twitter post from the guy who was synthesising the stuff in the US seems convincing: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1689476909208600576
Not a superconductor - the hints of superconductor-like properties were due to a combination of iron contamination in the Pb forming iron fragments which (surprise!) show ferromagnetism & Copper Sulphide which shows a very similarly anomalous temp/resistivity profile (but is not a superconductor).
The most likely outcome (i.e., not a superconductor, lab error due to honest scientists being fooled by their own experiments) seems to be probably the true one.
The Russian grifter was weird.
Looking through the threads most people only read the last tweet in the x thread and didn't see the link to evidence.
Ignoring HN illiteracy that might be mostly on Elon Musk. Xitter [ˈʃɪɾ.ɚ] as of now doesn't show the full thread unless you're logged in. Surely this will have no impact on its (already inflated) perceived credibility and usefulness as a news source.