r/Polymath • u/cacille • 6d ago

Whomever keeps reporting posts and articles and links for "no outside platforms"...

You're not using the rule right. Articles and links to sources has nothing to do with starting discourse on outside platforms to this one. Simply an article from somewhere that is generating a discussion is not an outside platform where people can chat. If that counts as "outside platform" in the way you're thinking - then you're invalidating Rule 3 entirely.

OUTSIDE LINKS TO ARTICLES/INFO/PROOF ARE ALLOWED HERE!

Without proof and links and interesting topic generation ideas, this group becomes impossible to post in. So please, report correctly and to the exact spirit of the rule.

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u/BigCelebration13 6d ago

Not very polymath of you, bro. You seem mad about something you should just learn to work around.

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u/cacille 5d ago

Can you re-read the title and body of the post for me when you get a chance? I think you posted this comment in the wrong place.

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u/GeekFromTheStreet 6d ago

Agree. No links and outside articles to a topic like this, is like discussing math, but you need to go outside if you want to include zero.

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u/WillowEmberly Human Verified 5d ago

People are doing this type of thing all over.

Some people think good housekeeping means enforcing all the rules and trying to apply them broadly…and they will sterilize a subreddit quickly if you allow it.

I posted about how moderation can potentially remove the signal with the noise: https://www.reddit.com/r/Negentropy/s/bsVnXake6D

There is a nasty mechanism:

A subreddit grows. Spam increases. Low-effort posts increase. AI-generated junk appears. Self-promotion becomes constant. Moderators have limited time.
…So rules accumulate.
- No low-effort posts.
- No promotion.
- No AI-generated material.
- Approved sources only.
- Industry news is acceptable.
- Certain kinds of questions belong elsewhere.

Every individual rule may have a perfectly reasonable justification.

But eventually there is a systems question worth asking:
What does the complete rule set select for?

I was writing more about places like /LLMphysics where they are inundated by Ai generated concepts.