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@skye @sashag @simonlbn
Sure, but importantly, they didn't hold the whole Extermination of the Under-Man belief system, as seems to be advocating for.

#sabinehossenfelder

Last updated 1 year ago

William Canna-bass · @JizzelEtBass
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Josh Susser · @joshsusser
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I'm not going to link to it, but Sabine Hossenfelder just posted a youtube video titled "Why is everyone suddenly autistic?" If you don't know who that is, she's a famous theoretical physicist who does a lot of science explaining and usually says everyone is wrong. A few weeks ago she did a video a few weeks ago about whether being trans was a teenage fad, and it was pretty bad. But this video about autism is truly terrible.

She starts by invoking Simon Baron-Cohen. His name is literally the first thing she says. (SBC is a well-known villain in the autistic community.) Then she talks about the DSM symptoms, and does her usual science skeptic thing for a while. Eventually she gets around to branding the neurodiversity movement as being extremist, defends AutismSpeaks as a charitable organization, Google/Alphabet's MSSNG genetic analysis project as obviously not eugenics (she's wrong), and sides with ABA providers that autistic children need to be abused to behave. And through it all, she didn't forget her signature-brand stupid jokes that are barely amusing when she's punching up but come off as kind of evil when she's making fun of autistic children.

This is Hossenfelder at her worst. She "just wanted to learn about the symptoms of autism" and ended up in a field where she has no expertise, but decided her generic science chops would make up for that. It's weird that a science communicator who is known for tearing down bad science got fooled by bad science, but not really surprising. Mumble mumble Dunning-Kruger mumble.

#Autistic #misinformation #badscience #sabinehossenfelder

Last updated 1 year ago

Pinkerite · @pinkerite
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New on Pinkerite:

Sabine Hossenfelder and the Intellectual Dark Web

I have a practically infallible nose for the stench of the Intellectual Dark Web after doing this blog for four and a half years.

pinkerite.com/2023/05/sabine-h

#idw #intellectualdarkweb #sabinehossenfelder #rebeccawatson

Last updated 1 year ago

טליה (לשון את) · @yuvalne
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@rebeccawatson
I personally unsubscribed for good. If I can't trust her not to do bad science in a subject I am well-versed in, I definitely can't trust her in subjects I am not well-versed in.

#sabinehossenfelder #badscience

Last updated 1 year ago

Talya (she/her) · @Yuvalne
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I unsubscribd to 's channel. Not out of spite, but because if she's being so anti-science on one video, then I can't trust any of her videos.

Watch "Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Screws up on Trans Kids' Care" on YouTube
youtu.be/r6Kau7bO3Fw

#sabinehossenfelder #trans #physicist #misinformation #badscience

Last updated 1 year ago

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Peter Motte · @PeterMotte
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lost her blue tick on She probably didn't give in to the pressure to pay for it. She has over 100K subscrivers. She has a point when she says she should be paid by the Twit.

#sabinehossenfelder #twitter

Last updated 2 years ago

Jim Donegan ✅ · @jimdonegan
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GhostOnTheHalfShell · @GhostOnTheHalfShell
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: New Study Finds Mysterious Rise of Chemicals That Destroy Ozone-Layer

17 min video.

I love the dig at Twitter in the first 30 seconds. She dead pan delivers like a champ.

youtu.be/FVTwr_ka8Kg

#sabinehossenfelder #climatechange

Last updated 2 years ago

Peter Motte · @PeterMotte
47 followers · 629 posts · Server social.linux.pizza

In this week's talks about an with a magnetic field, a new isotope of mysterious chemicals in the atmosphere, with effects, and more

youtu.be/FVTwr_ka8Kg

#science #news #sabinehossenfelder #exoplanet #uranium #spectroscopy #quantum

Last updated 2 years ago

jd in .hu ☑️ · @jd
458 followers · 1653 posts · Server todon.eu

Sabine Hossenfelder: 'I believe chatbots understand part of what they say. Let me explain.'
youtu.be/cP5zGh2fui0
––– 'I used to think that today's so-called "artificial intelligences" are actually pretty dumb. But I've recently changed my mind. In this video I want to explain why I think that they do understand some of what they do, if not very much. And since I was already freely speculating, I have added some thoughts about how the situation with AIs is going to develop.'

00:00 Intro
01:15 The Chinese Room
03:05 The Quantum Room
04:14 How Do Chatbots Learn?
07:15 What Does "Understanding" Mean?
15:46 Do We "Understand" Quantum Mechanics?
18:21 Where Will The AI Boom Lead Us?
20:30 Check Out My Quantum Mechanics Course

#sabinehossenfelder #ai #chatgpt #video

Last updated 2 years ago

Eric de Redelijkheid :fedi: · @ericdere
65 followers · 1639 posts · Server mastodon.nl

What Science Says About Quitting Social Media

youtu.be/cKuazUbay2U

#sabinehossenfelder

Last updated 2 years ago