JumpyWombat

@JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you have no idea what a supervisor does.

  I do and I bet you don’t since you draw conclusions based on nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe in solutions to reduce the damage of drugs, and illegal porn sounds to me very similar.

  I don’t think that a pedo would spontaneously go to a doctor to be helped. He would remain hidden until discovered. I also don’t think that all of them go beyond videos. In this sense a channel that keeps them away from the actual exploitation, like AI-generated content, may save some kids from becoming victims.

  It’s a very controversial topic though, and surely there won’t be a public debate anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course I don’t know, while you are an accomplished scientist with tons of papers under his belt. All disagreements here ends with one genius saying lol I know better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Necessary disclaimer: I’m 100% against that shit.

  Hear this: what about AI-generated illegal videos as a sort of methadone for perverts? There’s a whole debate right now and it’s not trivial stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite frankly, I’m more concerned of the profile they would be able to build with all my interests (because ID will be extended to everything), and by the fact that small independent websites (or even Wikipedia!) may be banned.

  But yeah, data leaks are concerning too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do it right, it’s just that the goal is not to protect the kids but identify the adults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m more worried by idiots accessing internet because clearly it isn’t a tool for everyone. Instead of an ID, there should be a captcha to measure the users intelligence and culture to keep out the fools without reasoning capabilities.

  Kids always found ways to satisfy their curiosity when nature brings them there, even before internet. These laws are 100% attempts to impose control and surveillance with the excuse of “protecting the innocents”.

  By the way: in my scale of things that kids shouldn’t see, porn comes after violence, misinformation, political extremism (both sides), racism, homophobia, and religion. I find absurd that none of them is even on the table… maybe because the pro-id people tend to be fascists with racist and homophobic views and an head full of BS and fear for God.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So people publish bullshit, use chatGPT, force their name on papers they haven’t contributed and so on.

  Assuming that you pass the peer review, then nobody will reference your paper in other papers. It will become obvious that your research is not interesting or that you are just slapping your name on papers as a supervisor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even know what you are talking about, but I’m afraid that you are not well informed. Even as an undergraduate you get access to publications through your university.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ArXiv is just a pre—print, and SciHub is a shadow library.

  If you want an academic career, have your discoveries recognised, and stay in funded research, you must publish on peer reviewed traditional channels. Like it or not.

  Of course you can still do research alone and publish on your website, but hardly anyone would take you seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use both, but somehow I find more relevant content more easily on BlueSky. Plus, there’s the network effect: you go where everyone is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now platform of choice for science community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is all of scientific research locked behind paywalls

  Because to advance in your field you need to publish your research in peer reviewed publications and the publishers need to monetise the content to keep publishing.

  It sucks, it works.