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Has this paper either been peer-reviewed or submitted for peer-review as a preprint?

I have a PhD in chemistry and I certainly don’t feel like I’m qualified to judge the quality of the work or the track record of the authors, scientifically.

I think this paper’s deserves a thorough airing and evaluation, but I don’t think Hacker news is a forum well equipped to produce a high signal to noise evaluation on such a highly charged claim, to say the least.

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Most of HN is not qualified either to judge the quality of AI, ML, opsec, renewables or any of a whole host of topics that are actually deeply complex.

But that does not mean it does not classify as potentially substantial news, that at least should be visible.

Nobody is arguing that it shouldn’t be more properly vetted when published via normal scientific channels, as these things usually are.

> topics that are actually deeply complex

The topics you mentioned are all part of a CS masters degree (and by far not the most complex ones there).

Many people on HN have a CS background so they are surely qualified.

I’m not saying anyone’s arguing that. But I’m just trying to establish if it is being properly vetted anywhere. If so, it would be nice to amplify the vetting as much as the claim itself, given its seriousness.

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