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[–] varmint@hexbear.net 50 points 3 days ago (3 children)

We're witnessing the death of academia in real time. Knowledge acquisition will cease and we will descend into a pit of regurgitated slurry until this system collapses

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 28 points 3 days ago

we will descend into a pit of regurgitated slurry until this system collapses.

I guess that's this century in a nutshell.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It kinda needs to happen in a lot of ways. I like academia on, like, a conceptual level, but "publish or perish" and the reproducibility crisis are imo signs of a deeply entrenched problem and I am not convinced it can be solved by reform. The breakdown of liberal academia is probably as inevitable and necessary as the breakdown of capitalism and liberalism.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

LLMs would just make the reproducibility crisis much worse.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Definitely. I wouldn't be shocked if they play a role in the failure of liberal academia.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

mmmmmm regurgitated slurry