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djoldmantoday at 1:36 AM2 repliesview on HN

Unfortunately, it's probably not worth your time to read 99% of arxiv papers, LLM generated or otherwise.

Ever pick a random one and really dive in?


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gammalosttoday at 10:11 AM

Well, yeah, 99% of arXiv papers were not written for me or you. They were written for someone who works in a niche within a niche. That's (in my view) the beauty of research.

rgmerktoday at 2:43 AM

Agreed. There was already too much human generated slop in academia.

And I’m not talking about good faith research that didn’t pan out, I mean research that is completely useless for any other purpose other than convincing a casual observer that the authors are doing research.