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1. evolarjun · 1790192734 · focus · HN ↗

   It is odd (or maybe not) that they decided to publish a marketing whitepaper rather than a more traditional journal submission + preprint. The work does appear to be sufficient for a publication, though there's a good chance a reviewer will rip into them for some of the assertions they make, but given the topic I'm sure the paper will be accepted regardless.

   The market for entry-level programmers has already declined, but at least they were somewhat in demand and made reasonable salaries. Now what happens to post-docs who already make almost nothing and often get treated like crap?

   1. refulgentis · 1790193487 · focus · HN ↗

      I’m curious, what differentiates this from a preprint given the assumption it’s sufficient for publication? It didn’t read like marketing, they don’t seem to sell anything, and there's a link to a not-anthropic.com hosted paper.

      1. parl_match · 1790193618 · focus · HN ↗

         > they don’t seem to sell anything

         i'll give you a hint: they're selling something

         1. refulgentis · 1790195371 · focus · HN ↗

            Let's say "anything talking about your product is selling something instead of doing science"

            Then we're faced with "why would a (insert whatever differentiates this from a preprint) mean they're not selling something"?

            1. effakcuL · 1790197582 · focus · HN ↗

               Well because it is not talking about your product that is what would've created the publication. But what is argued is the research should just be properly published. That publication would have been some advancement in enzyme research and not "Hey we pretend our fancy model created new research and we forget to mention that it was queried for weeks by experts in the field constantly correcting the model whenever it did something wrong until it resulted in something that the researchers could also have created on their own"

               Tbh I might be misrepresenting the original post, because in this case I did not read it, but for your point I feel like I also don't have to

            2. parl_match · 1790641788 · focus · HN ↗

               > Let's say "anything talking about your product is selling something instead of doing science"

               you are gonna be so stunned to find out when more than one thing can be true at the same time

               are they doing science? yes. are they selling something? yes.

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