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2026-02-08 23:55 UTC
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@UlrikeHahn
> do you envision these servers using machine tools or drawing on researchers?
Great question. As I said in the thread I just posted drawing parallels with independent news publishing, I think human relationships are our super power here. Which is why I references Web of Trust.
To the degree that automated tools are useful, I see them serving researchers by helping them break out of cliques and silos, and build out a larger scale web of trust.
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-02-08 23:59
(2/2) But any automated tools have to be built and deployed in ways that make researchers centaurs, not reverse centaurs reduced to serving the tools, and their owners. See the links to pieces by @pluralistic that explore the distinction between the 2; https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115210601592114790 To make centauric tools, they need to be as independently reproducible as the methods in any decent scientific paper. So they can't be monopolised and manipulated.