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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is an excellent question. Think of this as the “Good Will Hunting Problem”.

I tried uploading to 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.

4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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.

4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

To your question: can that Bangladeshi Genius kid get on the Arxiv if she is from some Jute farm in the delta without an endorsement?

https://arxiv.org/help/endorseme

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

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=357

4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I grant freely that the arxiv is the absolute best part of the 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 DISC it is.

4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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 arxiv as an “internet personality” yet runs the most read physics blog. I demand that they fully explain their history suppressing him.

4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Thanks for asking that question. Our goal is to save the 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 Arxiv and its administration. 🙏

4:52 PM · Jan 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@mike_usher I don’t fully disagree. Let’s put it this way, the 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.

5:56 PM · Jan 20, 2020

Martin Bauer

@martinmbauer

ChatGPD thinks its a breakthrough to fake academic texts that even experts can’t distinguish. Yet the snarxiv beats us since 2010

http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/

11:22 AM · Jan 29, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Was thinking the same.

But I think it is because an enormous part of the hep-th arxiv is disingenuous physics. “Sterile neutrinos from Non-commutative spacetime SUSY phenomenology over characteristic p not equal to 2.” could be a paper in a field gone mad. Or it could be a joke.

4:01 PM · Jan 29, 2023