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humility
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curiosity
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Read this korrent: Universities should fire individuals found to have substantial plagiarism in their PhD theses and published work.
Universities should fire individuals found to have substantial plagiarism in their PhD theses and published work.
Last stated 3 months ago
17 Aug 2026
GM
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Jason Arday's thesis contained extensive and obvious plagiarism. — tap to centre the map on it
Jason Arday's thesis contained extensive and obvious plagiarism.
Last stated 3 months ago
17 Aug 2026
GM
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Published evidence should not be accepted just because it is published, since things can be published even if they are not true. — tap to centre the map on it
Published evidence should not be accepted just because it is published, since things can be published even if they are not true.
Last stated 7 years ago
12 Oct 2019
DK
Daniel Kahneman — holds since 2019-10-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Peer review is one of the things genuinely wrong with academia, not a safeguard that mostly works. — tap to centre the map on it
Peer review is one of the things genuinely wrong with academia, not a safeguard that mostly works.
Last stated 4 years ago
13 Dec 2022
AG
Alexey Guzey — holds since 2019-08-15 — tap for who they are
AM
Adam Mastroianni — holds since 2022-12-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The media provides significantly more coverage to academic misconduct involving Black academics than white academics. — tap to centre the map on it
The media provides significantly more coverage to academic misconduct involving Black academics than white academics.
Last stated 3 months ago
17 Aug 2026
GM
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Citation practices in philosophy are out of step with how ideas actually spread. — tap to centre the map on it
Citation practices in philosophy are out of step with how ideas actually spread.
Last stated 3 years ago
6 Aug 2023
JW
James Owen Weatherall — holds since 2023-08-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Training AI on authors’ books without permission is illegal and wrong; authors should be asked and paid. — tap to centre the map on it
Training AI on authors’ books without permission is illegal and wrong; authors should be asked and paid.
Last stated 2 years ago
3 Apr 2025
TC
Tracy Chevalier — holds since 2025-04-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently. — tap to centre the map on it
A million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently.
Last stated 11 months ago
25 Nov 2025
IS
Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Certain image duplications in research papers could not have happened by accident. — tap to centre the map on it
Certain image duplications in research papers could not have happened by accident.
Last stated 4 months ago
24 Jun 2026
EB
Elisabeth Bik — holds since 2026-06-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A CEO grading themselves a failure for their mistakes does not help; every CEO makes thousands of mistakes — tap to centre the map on it
A CEO grading themselves a failure for their mistakes does not help; every CEO makes thousands of mistakes
Last stated 14 years ago
15 Jun 2012
BH
Ben Horowitz — holds since 2012-06-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A clueless person gains nothing by learning from others, because others are just as clueless. — tap to centre the map on it
A clueless person gains nothing by learning from others, because others are just as clueless.
Last stated 2 years ago
4 Dec 2024
KG
Kapil Gupta — holds since 2024-12-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A designer's assumption about where a component belongs is a personal assumption and does not mean that the market or the users will react to the component that way. — tap to centre the map on it
A designer's assumption about where a component belongs is a personal assumption and does not mean that the market or the users will react to the component that way.
Last stated 7 months ago
2 Apr 2026
MS
Marvin Schwaibold — holds since 2026-04-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Authors should treat peer review as a test run before a select, hand-picked audience. — tap to centre the map on it
Authors should treat peer review as a test run before a select, hand-picked audience.
Last stated 3 years ago
25 Apr 2024
SH
Suzana Herculano-Houzel — holds since 2024-04-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Automatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication. — tap to centre the map on it
Automatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication.
Last stated 3 months ago
17 Aug 2026
TT
Terence Tao — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Combining multiple AI models' outputs into one final answer tends to discard most of the good ideas that only one model produced. — tap to centre the map on it
Combining multiple AI models' outputs into one final answer tends to discard most of the good ideas that only one model produced.
Last stated 5 months ago
15 Jun 2026
RK
Rohit Krishnan — holds since 2026-06-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player. — tap to centre the map on it
A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player.
Last stated 13 years ago
3 Jul 2013
RK
Raph Koster — holds since 2013-07-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A theory that is afraid of investigation does not deserve a place in the mind — tap to centre the map on it
A theory that is afraid of investigation does not deserve a place in the mind
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Robert G. Ingersoll — holds since c. 1876–1878 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Acquiring insight into how things work is a worthwhile effort in itself, not only for any payoff — tap to centre the map on it
Acquiring insight into how things work is a worthwhile effort in itself, not only for any payoff
Last stated 19 years ago
17 Oct 2007
PB
Peter Bevelin — holds since 2007-10-17 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2007 to today (stretched back to the oldest claim here) — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are