Ask HN: Why do people hate on Sabine Hossenfelder so much?

And most everyone else wouldn't know who that even is.

The research out of the UK was fascinating. They had a video of autistic people and non-autistic people, not doing much of anything. Nothing verbal. Then the tested person simply answers, gut feeling questions about the person. "does this person seem trustworthy" etc etc.

They showed a minority of people have the ability to identify autistic people without verbal; and have negative judgements against them with remarkable accuracy and they are completely oblivious to the bias.

She might be bringing attention to some shady people in the scientific field [1] and that could cost them money so I could see them getting salty. Good on her for bringing more attention to it. I expect AI to expose much more as people abuse it more. Just ignore the haters.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NOWoQW5RLk [video][7 mins]

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mini-decodin...

Their podcast revolves around discussing people seen as gurus/grifters and the various tendencies they exhibit and I usually trust it as a sensible source.

It sounds like she's started to follow the algorithm and has changed a lot recently in her position on various topics.

She said something trans rights activists scorn, that sex operations on children cannot be a moral intervention of children gripped by gender dysphoria.

I don’t know what else she’s on coals over.

Since she went “private” venturing her stuff is all over the place and people can get tired of this one personality always chiming in.

I could see her charms turning to cringe in some situations.

She got out over her skis a few times, but mostly everything she says makes sense to me.