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by SiempreViernes 55 days ago
> And then of course, there's the frequent crackpots. Pretty much anyone within a science discipline who is even decently well known, especially if they're in physics, gets multiple emails a day from crackpots about how their theories are going to "totally blow a hole in the established knowledge"

I think at this point most of these people talk to chatbots instead, anecdotally the crank flow seems to have lessened.

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Yes, until they send over an AI hallucinated manifesto which is 100x longer than the email would have been.