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27 Mar 2024
Iโ€™m generally avoiding this place now but do check in occasionally, and my word, beyond everything else thatโ€™s on fire in the world of politics, the technical disinfo and pseudoengineering being propagated by inexperienced techbros punchdrunk on LLM hype is at a fever pitch.
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1 Jun 2023
New term: Pseudoengineering. It's when your idea is possible in theory, and it "works" and isn't against the laws of physics, but it's just impractically dumb, and the data is clear but you pursue it anyway. Feel free to update Wikipedia.
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Replying to @TimFernholz
The nany likely was a college student while she was being a nanny. Or she had a degree that she hadn't used right sway. Or the job is a pseudoengineering job, which is rampant now. People take a bootcamp where they're given a brief exposure to some coding languages and utilities.
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These hyperloop pseudoengineering scams get more ridiculous every year google.com/amp/s/www.cnn.comโ€ฆ

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Enough with the pseudoscience, what about pseudotechnology, pseudoengineering and pseudomathematics?
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A: Suspect any fine-grained study using all their data shows accident and death rates *much higher* than comparable vehicles with comparable drivers on comparable routes. Lying with statistics using the pseudoscience - pseudoengineering Musk - $tsla specializes in.
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5 Dec 2014
If pseudoscience is a thing, is pseudoengineering a thing?
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