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So Elsevier has evolved from gatekeeping science to sabotaging science. Sounds like something an unaligned AGI would do.

Was the unaligned AGI capitalism all along?

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you know it baybee, the one true paperclip maximiser

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i’ve noticed that at least one elsevier journals dropped article fees ($2k ballpark) as long as article was submitted before end of last year. what could have been the catch, i wonder, hmm

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the only thing i don’t understand is: why this soon, somebody clearly fed wisdom woodchipper with a deadline and had deals with all major publishers

maybe it was in preparation for spicy autocomplete as chief editor

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I found a trace of this here https://journalpublishingguide.vu.nl/WebQuery/vubrowser/3394 internet archive doesn’t work on this journal page

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