[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago

https://bsky.app/profile/chemprofcramer.bsky.social/post/3lt5h24hfnc2m

I got caught up in this mess because I was VPR at Minnesota in 2019 and the first author on the paper (Jordan Lasker) lists a Minnesota affiliation. Of course, the hot emails went to the President's office, and she tasked me with figuring out what the hell was going on. Happily, neither Minnesota nor its IRB had "formally" been involved. I regularly sent the attached reply, which seemed to satisfy folks. But you come to realize, as VPR, just how little control you actually have if a researcher in your massive institution really wants to go rogue... 😰

Dear [redacted],

Thank you for writing to President Gabel to share your concern with respect to an article published in Psych in 2019 purporting to have an author from the University of Minnesota. The President has asked me to respond on her behalf.

In 2018, our department of Economics requested a non-employee status for Jordan Lasker while he was working with a faculty member of that department as a data consultant. Such status permitted him a working umn.edu email address. He appears to have used that email address to claim an affiliation with the University of Minnesota that was neither warranted nor known to us prior to the publication of the article in question. Upon discovery of the article in late 2019, we immediately verified that his access had been terminated and we moreover transmitted to him that we was not to falsely claim University of Minnesota affiliation in the future. We have had no contact with him since then. He has continued to publish similarly execrable articles, sadly, but he now lists himself as an “independent researcher”.

Best regards,

Chris Cramer

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

🎶 Substack, David Shor, Nate Silver, Noahpinion,

Dick Hanania, bathrobe from Aella

We didn't start the fire 🎶

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 3 months ago

A lesswrong declares,

social scientists are typically just stupider than physical scientists (economists excepted).

As a physicist, I would prefer not receiving praise of this sort.

The post to which that is a comment also says a lot of silly things, but the comment is particularly great.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago

She lost him on a Thursday.

She never could get the hang of Thursdays.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago

The collapse of FTX also caused a reduction in traffic and activity of practically everything Effective Altruism-adjacent

Uh-huh.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago

I must have been living under a rock/a different kind of terminally online, because I had only ever heard of Honey through Dan Olson's riposte to Doug Walker's The Wall, which describes Doug Walker delivering "an uncomfortably over-acted ad for online data harvesting scam Honey" (35:43).

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago

"Drinking alone tonight?" the bartender asks.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 9 months ago

The only argument I find here against it is the question of whether someone’s personal opinions should be a reason to be removed from a leadership position.

What do these people think leadership is?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Image description: social-media post from "sophie", with text reading,

it's called "founder mode" it's about how to run your company as a founder and how that often goes against traditional management practices. it's basically what i already do but paul graham created a cool name for it in his latest essay, you know who paul graham is? y combinator?

This text is followed by an image of a man and a woman sitting in the audience of some public event. The man is talking at the woman while holding one hand on the back of her neck. The woman is staring past him with eyes that have seen the death of civilizations.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 10 months ago

before i begin, i want to be clear that what i am about to say is not an endorsement of chattel slavery

eigenrobot

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 10 months ago

"HPMoR is canon - fact"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

July 2022: Midjourney released

March 2024: "pregnant tradwife Midjourney tweets" is an instantly recognizable type of guy

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