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Nice post. I’d like to see more thought on what modern scientific institutions look like given the new pace of science. Working on a piece thinking about this, will reference this.

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IMO AI oversight in peer review is inevitable.

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Looking forward to your piece on this! I agree AI oversight in peer review is inevitable. Thinking out loud, it feels like there's two components that right now are conflated in human reviews: "correctness/validity checks" and "taste" (interestingness/novelty/etc.). It feels like the first part is lower hanging fruit right now and an area I'd love to see more work in. The initial tests (https://www.owlposting.com/p/can-o1-preview-find-major-mistakes, https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/p/the-black-spatula-project) using o1 to find mistakes are a good start but would love to see an industrial scale effort here to add all the bells and whistles (citation validity checks, coding environments for repros, etc.).

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I have a long reading list at this point but plugging away

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