[HN Gopher] The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times o...
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The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific
paper
Author : belter
Score : 65 points
Date : 2024-04-28 17:21 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| hilux wrote:
| This guy, David Sinclair at Harvard, Marc T-L at Stanford ...
| disappointing but not entirely surprising that even in academia
| the spoils go to the scammers.
| iknowstuff wrote:
| What's up with Sinclair? Saw his name pop up in a multitude of
| aging/longevity content on youtube and my spidey senses were
| tingling.
| chrispeel wrote:
| I couldn't finish Sinclair's book on aging [1]; even in a
| book that he co-authored he comes across as a scammer
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_%E2%80
| %93...
| thyrox wrote:
| I have been seeing this guy David Sinclair a lot in my Youtube
| feed lately with raving reviews. But after reading your comment
| did a bit of research and my god what a scam(1).
|
| There is so much misinformation and gaming going on in every
| industry and with A.I. generated content it's going to get so
| much easier.
|
| (1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn0EJQPyxkA
| hilux wrote:
| For every person like you who is on HN and willing to do
| followup research and change their mind, there are at least a
| hundred who will accept the first thing they're told at face
| value.
|
| I mean, how could a Harvard Professor be a scammer ...
| right?!
| HeatrayEnjoyer wrote:
| Thousands of times? Seems like the kind of thing a machine would
| do...
|
| (!_!)
| mindcrime wrote:
| _It can 't be true!_
|
| _Why not? One sentinel for every man, woman, and child in
| Zion. That sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to
| me._
| readthenotes1 wrote:
| "Only one person has presented his candidacy for rector of one of
| the oldest academic institutions in the world, the University of
| Salamanca. "
|
| There's a lot of focus on the scumminess of that one person, but
| there is no mention of why only one villain has thrown his hat
| into that ring.
|
| It is one of the oldest universities in this world, and it
| deserves better...
| jacksonrya wrote:
| The article describes a rushed election, preventing due time
| for fair campaigning
| vinni2 wrote:
| Which is why you should ask people to exclude self citations when
| reporting h-index. First of all Google scholar should fix this.
| riedel wrote:
| Relying just on h-index is bad in the first places. I habe
| colleagues in experimental physics who are on papers with tens
| of coauthors, working only on a small bit that enabled multiple
| experiments and have an amazing hindex. you cannot compare that
| to a theoretically working niche field. In the end it is about
| wrong incentives in science. See also this article on rising
| self citations [0] . Having said that h-index is a good KPI to
| track for myself.
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| [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00090-z
| staunton wrote:
| I know lots of people who are authors on papers they've never
| even looked at. (They implicitly agreed to be authors and
| know that there's _some_ such papers, they just didn 't even
| read the tiles)
| Heidaradar wrote:
| you could get a friend/family member to do the same thing
| though (they cite each other thousands of times)
| jgalt212 wrote:
| Yes, but the bar is higher. No safe is impenetrable, or alarm
| system foolproof, but they do make undesirable actions more
| difficult.
| limaoscarjuliet wrote:
| When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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