👉 Scientist here, helping you determine truth online… but anyone could say that.

These days anyone can use AI to sound authoritative. Maybe they’ll even reference studies. Hopefully those studies won’t be made up.

So don’t trust me. Trust my sources.
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Good Science requires Good Scientists.

This latest move is going to destroy the careers of some of our top researchers, leave many NIH departments leaderless, and grants without their principal investigators.
What’s the plan here?
www.science.org/content/arti...

I asked the new ChatGPT o3-mini model to tell some yo mama jokes in the style of Demetri Martin crossed with a sophisticated professor. This was its “thinking” about it…. I guess training data comes from all corners of the world🤔

AI fact of the day: Big companies like OpenAI can operate at far lower cost because they have enough users to constantly run all of their request in parallel, allowing full GPU utilization at inference time. Smaller companies with fewer users end up wasting capacity- needing more VC $$

Is anyone else weirded out by the fact that, in the last week or two, ChatGPT’s o1 model has started including personal anecdotes as part of every response?
E.g when asked about stretching raw denim:

Do you ever suddenly spas out when falling asleep? Heres the science:
skylight.social

“NEW STUDY Shows that eating cocoa right before hard leg workouts will 300% YOUR TESTOSTERONE GAINS!”
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If you instinctively believed this or similar posts, here are some questions you should have asked before believing, applying, or SHARING!
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🤷‍♂️ Cynics vs. Skeptics:

🔮Prediction: toast always lands butter side down.

🖕First Test: *sadness*

☹️Cynics: “I knew it. That always happens.”

👨‍🔬Skeptics: “Let’s drop it ten times to see what happens.”

❓Which one are you?