Post #998430
2026-04-03 14:20 UTC
blogging to arxiv is a massive flex https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10181
Replies (4)
-
@wingo@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 14:26
via an excellent essay making the rounds on bluesky https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/
-
@wingo@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 14:29
"I claim that (essentially) none of us, individually, does astrophysics because we want to learn the specific answer to the astrophysics question we are asking. [...] If all we really wanted was to know how the Universe worked, we would start a hedge fund, and use the proceeds to pay an astrophysics institute, filled with people who wanted to do astrophysics rather than find out the answers."
-
@cfbolz@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 14:41
@wingo@mastodon.social just physicists doing phycisist things
-
@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-03 15:27
@wingo@mastodon.social It's apparently allowed if you say "white paper" instead of "blog post". (White [paper] privilege?)