Worse, as success rates go down, I'm assuming that scientists, even those who hate AI, will use AI to write grants, so as to minimize lost time sunk on long shots. A race to the bottom.

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The other issue is that funding is becoming much less plentiful in many places. Large cuts in science across many countries incentivize looking elsewhere.

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Wow, that's pretty terrible- the authors inserted >90 self-cites after acceptance! Most citation gaming I've seen is more subtle - most unpleasant one was having an editor "strongly suggest" that we cite their paper(s) as part of their revision feedback.

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It hadn't occurred to me that Meta would try to Mechants of Doubt Haidt, but in retrospect of course they did

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Oh I think that's a bit out of context. Elsewhere in the court documentation they note "academic allies" on the topic, and plan to "turn other academics against Haidt — lot of strong methodologists to say things more forcefully — there is an immediate ask but we don’t know how long this will last."

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