Hacker News with Generative AI: Skepticism

Elon Musk given Rusty Razor pseudoscience award (skeptic.org.uk)
Twitter owner Elon Musk has today been named the 2024 recipient of the “Rusty Razor” award, the prize given by The Skeptic to the year’s worst promoters of pseudoscience

Elon Musk, Pseudoscience, Awards, Skepticism

13 points by mikehall314 32 days ago | 0 comments

The Crackpot Index (wikipedia.org)
The Crackpot Index is a number that rates scientific claims or the individuals that make them, in conjunction with a method for computing that number.

Science, Humor, Skepticism

5 points by higgins 63 days ago | 1 comments

Due to AI fakes, the "deep doubt" era is here (arstechnica.com)
Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media networks like X and Facebook these days, we're seemingly entering a new age of media skepticism: the era of what I'm calling "deep doubt."

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Media, Skepticism

11 points by Archelaos 64 days ago | 0 comments

Does Astrology Work? (clearerthinking.org)

Astrology, Science, Skepticism

21 points by pmzy 103 days ago | 183 comments

A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (davidv.dev)

Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, Skepticism, Software Engineering, DevOps

11 points by signa11 115 days ago | 2 comments

What if the A.I. Boosters Are Wrong? (nytimes.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Society, Skepticism

11 points by JumpCrisscross 130 days ago | 2 comments

OCaml for the Skeptical (2006) (lib.uchicago.edu)

Programming Languages, OCaml, Skepticism, Education

4 points by nequo 140 days ago | 0 comments

Psychology might be a big stinkin' load of hogwash and that's just fine (experimental-history.com)

Psychology, Science, Philosophy, Skepticism

47 points by nickwritesit 166 days ago | 20 comments

Welcome to the age of space scepticism – and a growing revolt against elites (theconversation.com)