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Its kind of like a "nice/fun" flip-side of the anti-science internet experts we saw during covid, although I think the people at the forefront this time were genuinely pro-science and positively motivated.

That's an interesting take. Crackpots and overhyped layman being a dual of anti-science. What would we call that? Well, I guess we'd normally talk about that stuff as science fiction.

LLNL and Fermi did peer reviewed research on LK-99? Links?

They published followup papers on fusion ignition and strange muon behavior respectively.

Oh ok. Mainstream media reported on fusion ignition #2 while (rightfully) ignoring LK-99. I think the takeaway here is just how bad techbros are at evaluating hard science.

I didn't follow it too closely because I didn't see how it could be anything but a nothingburger. I think the internet got high off LLM success and expected nonstop breakthroughs like entitled children.

That's what I most remember too from this.