None of this is surprising in an age of degraded institutions. AI slop farms will only accelerate the decay. The time required to generate plausible-sounding nonsense is collapsing toward minutes. As the cost of academic fraud approaches zero, any ecosystem without serious quality control will drown in noise; the universities that tolerate it will follow.
> P13 - Chaotic Archetypes: If you can identify your colleagues by which institutional pathology they've learned to serve (the endless publisher, the prestige chaser, the eternal reformer, the dignified endurer), you're watching people choose their gods in real time.
Academia is filled with such termites.
No wonder the word “content” has replaced the word “information”.
It might be the most honest feature of our culture.
“Content” can be anything 💩
None of this is surprising in an age of degraded institutions. AI slop farms will only accelerate the decay. The time required to generate plausible-sounding nonsense is collapsing toward minutes. As the cost of academic fraud approaches zero, any ecosystem without serious quality control will drown in noise; the universities that tolerate it will follow.
looks like this year is shaping up to be when the great war against the degenerate Economics establishment will finally take place
the eCONomist scum have been having it too good for too long
may Guan Shengdi Jun Qielan Pusa the god of war grant me aid in this struggle
Not to be picky, but how many renowned business and economics schools are there in Ireland?
This recent linkedin gem https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-im-using-warhammer-40k-explain-whats-wrong-brian-lucey-r285e probably gets deleted soon.
> P13 - Chaotic Archetypes: If you can identify your colleagues by which institutional pathology they've learned to serve (the endless publisher, the prestige chaser, the eternal reformer, the dignified endurer), you're watching people choose their gods in real time.
If he had just been a teensy bit less greedy he probably could have done this forever. Which suggests it could be very common.
56 papers in a year is .... I'm actually laughing typing this. It's a lot of papers.
Great journalism.