This guy is a complete fraud / pathological liar. He's been repeatedly banned from wikipedia over the past 10+ years for using an army of sockpuppets to create articles about himself filled with self-promotional material.
He created his own wikipedia article, as well as ones for his book, the journal he published in, the award he was nominated for, the “gateway belief” thing he’s trying to popularize, his academic dept, etc.
And when confronted, he lies about his identity and makes a new account.
Nov 24, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Grok beats ChatGPT when it comes to handling controversial questions. I tested this by touching the third-rail of social science and asked both for statistics on race and IQ.
ChatGPT lectured me on the social construction of race.
Grok just spit out the numbers.
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Most interesting part of each answer is the cited sources.
ChatGPT cites the APA.
Grok cites posts from @cremieuxrecueil @eyeslasho and @wil_da_beast630.
As someone who believes that knowledge is good, this is a great example of why X's liberal content policies are valuable.
Many critical of @KatherineEban & @jeffykao's article take issue with Toy Reid and his analysis of the "Secret Language of Chinese Officialdom". Such criticism ignores the history of China Watching as practiced by the great Laszlo Ladany.
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nybooks.com/articles/1990/…
While the discourse is focused on basic translation & tense, it is doubtful that Reid + additional experts missed this. The interpretation of CCP communiqués does not lend itself to translation by either formal nor sense-by-sense dynamic equivalence. Fluency is just but step 1.
Oct 22, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A new #OriginOfCovid pre-print claims that the SARS-CoV-2 genome has fingerprints indicating synthetic origin.
It's been called both "uninformed nonsense" and "the smoking gun".
How is that possible? What are people even arguing about?
🧵w/ simplified overview for the curious
The paper in 1 tweet: examines a type of restriction site on the COVID genome. These sites occur in nature but can also result from certain cut+paste genome assembly. In COVID the location of the sites are more even-spaced & less random you'd expect naturally. Looks synthetic.