Every time some easy "Reproducibility is hard / not worth the effort" I hear "The original research wasn't meaningful or valuable".

And that's true! It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of resources on reproducing things when there is low hanging fruit of just requiring better research in the first place.

The point is that they should focus on the meaningful errors, not the automiation of meaningless errors.

Why these are meaningless? How do I know now that the whole paper is not a slop?

I searched Google for one of the hallucinations: [N. Flammarion. Chen "sam generalizes"]

AI Overview: Based on the research, [Chen and N. Flammarion (2022)](https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/) investigate why Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) generalizes better than SGD, focusing on optimization perspectives

The link is a link to the OP web page calling the "research" a hallucination.

Why does "Robust Label Proportions Learning" have a "Scan" link, while all the others have a "Sources" link? Was this web page generated by AI?

I don't know why you believe that a decades-long strict dictatorship like Russia has more democratic support for its "evil" government than a country whose leader was elected just 1 year ago with approximately 50% of the vote.

Russians are lining up to go to war under the promise of money, around 30k a month last time I checked. Americans not so much, in particular not against Europeans. It's different in my view.

As an American, a sizable number of Americans are lining up to join ICE under the promise of money.

And also, our whole military recruitment strategy here outside of drafts has been "the GI bill" – paid tuition in exchange for lining up to go to war.

I don't know that the gap in morals is as wide as you think.

Americans don't need money to fight. I was paid $0 with the YPG and had to bankroll my own time. Lots of Americans there. I met a lot of them that didn't even really give a shit about the sides of the war, they just needed to fight something. We're a savage people.

Which historically has worked more for us, than against us.

But is it 30k people a month, for years on end (or rather 75k considering US population is around 2.5x the size of russias population)?

Russians are much, much worse than Americans in terms of their eagerness to kill others, in my opinion. I wish it were not so.

I agree broadly with this, but was surprised to see the staff software engineer callout. Then OP linked to some other docs about how to avoid being stuck in rut at "merely" useful. At my job we call that "You can't get promoted to next level by doing the job of someone 2 levels above you."

That works either because someone wants to buy old hardware for the manufacturer/lessor, or because the hardware is EOL in 3 years but it's easier to let the lessor deal with recyling / valuable parts recovery.

"founder" is a weasel word that doesn't belong on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

Does the OP site give anyone credit for anything, except crediting Jimmy Wales and "volunteers"?

A monument to vanity.