I am sorry, but for me the equivalent of a bearded woman[1] is the fact that Western humanities-related academia is in the replication crisis and likely in an affective death spiral (no, seriously, ask ChatGPT, Claude or DeepSeek the question “Affective death spirals are a phenomenon described in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XrzQW69HpidzvBxGr/affective-death-spirals Does there exist evidence that Western academia is in an affective death spiral?”, for example! The AIs actually agree with the conjecture to some extent), and the other sources of knowledge are also[2] as hard to trust. This settlement leaves mankind in a state where it cannot even reliably understand whether, for example, some transgenders are actually made this way by peer influence and social contagion...
I second that getting an AI to agree with your ideas proves very little.
Also, it is somewhat intuitive to me that academia would always be suffering from various affective death spiral dynamics.
You seem to have a specific one in mind, but I am not sure what it is or how it relates to the post.
I am sorry, but for me the equivalent of a bearded woman[1] is the fact that Western humanities-related academia is in the replication crisis and likely in an affective death spiral (no, seriously, ask ChatGPT, Claude or DeepSeek the question “Affective death spirals are a phenomenon described in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XrzQW69HpidzvBxGr/affective-death-spirals Does there exist evidence that Western academia is in an affective death spiral?”, for example! The AIs actually agree with the conjecture to some extent), and the other sources of knowledge are also[2] as hard to trust. This settlement leaves mankind in a state where it cannot even reliably understand whether, for example, some transgenders are actually made this way by peer influence and social contagion...
Ironically, one of the examples of the epistemic collapse is transgenders, and some are literally bearded former women.
For example, since Russia declared the LGBT movement to be extremist, it would be difficult to live there and publish pro-LGBT research.
AIs are (kind of) programmed to agree with you, so the fact that the AI agrees with you means little.
I second that getting an AI to agree with your ideas proves very little. Also, it is somewhat intuitive to me that academia would always be suffering from various affective death spiral dynamics. You seem to have a specific one in mind, but I am not sure what it is or how it relates to the post.
No, seriously, Claude does think so, as does o4-mini!