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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. | |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”. | |content=This is an excellent question. Think of this as the “Good Will Hunting Problem”. | ||
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|content=On this point our detractors are more correct than our supporters: our ambitions at The Portal are nearly delusional. | |content=On this point our detractors are more correct than our supporters: our ambitions at The Portal are nearly delusional. | ||
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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? | |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? | ||
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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 & 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. | |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 & 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. | |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. 🙏 | |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. | |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. | |content=I'm going to explain how profound levels of dissent in physics are driven out of the community. | ||
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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 & [[The Arxiv|arXIv]]. | |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 & [[The Arxiv|arXIv]]. | ||
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|content=[The field of fundamental physics stagnates in ‘73 when our Lagrangians stop changing.] | |content=[The field of fundamental physics stagnates in ‘73 when our Lagrangians stop changing.] | ||
|timestamp=9:01 PM · Jun 3, 2025 | |timestamp=9:01 PM · Jun 3, 2025 | ||