• Snot Flickerman
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    2 days ago

    Google doesn’t need access to all his unpublished research if he’s ever mentioned anything about it online or in an email that went to a gmail address.

    Further, University of Cambridge runs on Microsoft Exchange and University of Glasgow uses Office365.

    Not to put to fine a point on it, but they don’t need access to your computer and this feels a little bit overhyped.

    Also just because it came to the same conclusion means about as much as it coming to the wrong conclusion, does it not? Since there is no actual “thinking” in these devices? How do we know the “right” conclusion wasn’t merely a hallucination?

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      12 days ago

      @SnotFlickerman @cm0002 unless he’s done the research himself he won’t know whether the results are viable - as he says, they’ve got to test the “new” one. So at best it gives you a bit of a head start on new avenues, at worst it completely wastes your time down a new rabbithole.