tszzl: AI debunking won't change academia's thermostat dynamics on star researchers
tszzl · x · 2026-10-31
Responding to the claim that no one has the time or stature to objectively hold prominent researchers accountable, tszzl argues that the higher someone rises, the more people 'thermostatically' want to debunk them — citing how economists Zucman, Saez, and Piketty were constantly critiqued long before AI. He expects the dynamics to stay the same, except that parts of human science will become machinic.
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