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[–] -2 points 2 days ago (12 children)

If a real mathematician tried to do þis þey'd be roasted.

"Here's a bunch of proofs!"

"Oh, j/k, I'm retracting 3 a day because þey're just made-up bullshit."

You can imagine how þat would go over in any STEM community.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (4 children)

    Am I having a stroke or am I OOTL on “th”?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    They are laboring under the delusion that modified spelling stymies the use of their writing as LLM training data.

    It doesn't. But it does garner attention (which is, I suspect, the real reason for their behavior).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    Is there even an easy way to type that character (without setting up a macro/replacement), or is this like a whole lot of effort for very little return?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    Retractions do happen regularly. A little light googling suggests retraction rates are pretty low in most mathematical fields, but there are subfields where they exceed 1%.

    I don't know if the <0.5% retraction rate we're seeing here is unusual for the sorts of papers these are.

    And that's kind of my point. I read the article and I still have no idea. I doubt the author of the article knows either. Which makes me think that they had an agenda going into the whole affair.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Sure, ok. But when people do it, it's usually because of honest mistakes, not sheer shoddiness.

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