Editing Paul Ginsparg

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|content=@mike_usher I don’t fully disagree. Let’s put it this way, the [[The Arxiv|arxiv]] probably did more good than harm so I’ve been reluctant to discuss its issues. It is also part of a complex and that complex is the issue. It isn’t right to discuss it in isolation. It is part of an ecosystem.
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|content=This is an excellent question. Think of this as the “Good Will Hunting Problem”. 

I tried uploading to [[The Arxiv|arxiv]] way back when. They told me that my email address wasn’t a current university address and I could only upload with endorsement from a university or its representative.

https://x.com/swordloveaffai/swordloveaffair/status/1219282556631293954
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|content=On this point our detractors are more correct than our supporters: our ambitions at The Portal are nearly delusional.

The main goal of The Portal is to “Slip the DISC”. Anywhere institutions (like Universities) set up an intellectual caste system via bottlenecking, we’ll engage.
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|content=To your question: can that Bangladeshi Genius kid get on the [[The Arxiv|Arxiv]] if she is from some Jute farm in the delta without an endorsement?

https://arxiv.org/help/endorseme

And why if the [[The Arxiv|Arxiv]] is open does it discriminate against the blogs of string theory critics???

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=357
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|content=I grant freely that the [[The Arxiv|arxiv]] is the absolute best part of the [[The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)|DISC]]. But it is still suppressing ideas &amp; enforcing a caste system. It is the most progressive part of our regressive system (I was offered a full endorsement exemption from its founder [[Paul Ginsparg]]). But [[The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)|DISC]] it is.
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|content=I’m enough of a hypocrite that I reserve rights to use it. But I‘ll be making demands of it too. [[Peter Woit]] is a physicist who is treated by the [[The Arxiv|arxiv]] as an “internet personality” yet runs the most read physics blog. I demand that they fully explain their history suppressing him.
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|content=Thanks for asking that question. Our goal is to save the [[The Arxiv|Arxiv]] from being part of the DISC. Its soul is with the rebels. And [[Paul Ginsparg]] is oddly an early hero of the revolution despite my issues with the [[The Arxiv|Arxiv]] and its administration. 🙏
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|content=@skdh I assume we are both familiar with how some of our mutual Physics/Math PhD colleagues have been treated at [[The Arxiv|arXiv]] for being deeply off the [[Quantum Gravity]] narrative? I think they could stop treating those people differently from everyone else.
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|content=I'm going to explain how profound levels of dissent in physics are driven out of the community.

Q: "Why avoid the [[The Arxiv|arXiv]]? That isn't peer reviewed or even moderated! Anyone can put anything on it!"

A: "Unmoderated?? The old [[Paul Ginsparg|P. Ginsparg]] Los Alamos National Labs server? Who knew!"
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|content=No researcher can afford to lose access to the arXiv. And no one talking openly about the actual [[Quantum Gravity]] mass delusion can have access to the journals &amp; [[The Arxiv|arXIv]].

You cannot challenge the [[Quantum Gravity|QG]] narrative from the inside; its achievement is that it finally made physics *safe*.
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|content=[The field of fundamental physics stagnates in ‘73 when our Lagrangians stop changing.]
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|content=I understand your frustration, but I think it's somewhat misdirected. The arXiv needs some sort of screening. But they have little money and not enough people. I think they're trying to do the best they can.
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