- A GPT-2 model trained on 10 000 Nature papers (“Enigma”) was discussed on Hacker News; participants questioned whether its outputs are distinguishable from real papers and argued that generating credible scientific text without training on prior papers would be more impressive.  
- The channel linked to the Hacker News thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27144764.  
- A brief Twitter dispute spilled into the wiki when user “juniorian” renamed the diyhpluswiki index page to “Catanduvense.mdwn”; the change was quickly reverted, illustrating ongoing low-grade vandalism tied to external social-media disagreements.  
- Conversation turned to public perceptions of Elon Musk: members lamented goalpost-shifting and ad-hominem attacks on Hacker News, citing examples like “sending payloads into space isn’t even that hard” and “Tesla only sells cars on the promise of self-driving.”  
- Participants drew parallels between the Musk discourse and earlier PHP criticism, noting that Evelyn Woods’ “fractal of bad design” essay had once provided a structured rebuttal, prompting speculation about whether similar systematic critiques could be applied to current debates.  
- The idea of using prediction markets or personal bets to impose a cost on rhetorical flip-flops was floated, with some reluctance expressed about “having to side with the rationalists” on this approach.