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Right, academics who deligate their entire intellectual life to GPT will be unaffected.
by ohnei 5mo ago
Right, academics who deligate their entire intellectual life to GPT will be unaffected.
- bjourne 5mo agoRight, and everyone else unaware of this made up "informal credit assignment process".
- ohnei 5mo agohttps://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- mattkrause 5mo agoI don’t know that everyone would label it like that, but it’s inarguably true that success in academia comes from your reputation/name recognition. Metrics are often attempts to formalize this but they’re not how most people actually make decisions: nobody is inviting seminar speakers or choosing collaborators because they have a high h-index. If anything, it goes the other way: name recognition gets you invited to speak or collaborate, which makes more people aware of your work, which boosts metrics.
- bjourne 5mo agoThat is false. The first thing everyone (at least everyone in CS---IDK about other fields) looks at are h-indexes, impact factors, number of papers per year, university rankings, and similar metrics. Researchers are most definitely selecting collaborators with a high h-index.