Who is your science fact checker?
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Replying to @TheAnnaGat
@perrymetzger (especially for chemistry or computer security) and @alyssamvance (especially for answering the question “is this outrageous claim of a tech breakthrough plausible?”)1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
For biology I usually do my own fact-checking, but I ask for help on stress-testing ideas for experiments (“couldn’t you just...?” “Why don’t they just...?”)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @TheAnnaGat and
Sometimes the answer to “why not just...” is a technical reason it wouldn’t work; sometimes it’s too expensive; sometimes it’s actually standard practice already and I’ve reinvented the wheel; once in a while it’s actually an obvious good idea that’s been overlooked.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @TheAnnaGat and
And of course Scott Aaronson is the world’s fact-checker for quantum computing claims (and surprisingly willing to answer laymen’s questions for such an eminent scholar!)
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Dario Amodei has an eerily perfect track record for identifying the “next big thing” in science; stuff that both has technical merit and is within the Overton window to become mainstream & fundable. I learned about CAR-T from him way before it was cool.
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