Ep. 99 - Philipp Koellinger & Christian Roessler
Philipp and Christian are building Claims
@DeSciClaims Subnet 111
Timestamps
0:00 - Highlights
1:48 - Proof of Pitch to Mainnet in Three Months
2:50 - Why Economists Find Bittensor Fascinating
3:42 - Citations as Science's Reward Function
4:29 - The Replication Nobody Would Publish
6:53 - How Much Published Science Is Wrong
8:26 - The AI Echo Chamber vs. Human Work
9:54 - Making 300 Million Papers Machine Readable
15:11 - Reproducibility vs. Citations
15:46 - Turning Papers Into a Knowledge Graph
16:20 - Why LLMs Hallucinate Citations
21:21 - Longer Context Windows Make This Obsolete?
22:56 - Coverage, Extraction Quality & Evidence Quality
25:16 - What Counts as a Substantive Claim
26:42 - What This Is Worth to Working Academics
27:37 - Academia Admits the System Is Broken
29:26 - How Do You Actually Find the Truth?
32:06 - Truth as Probability, Not Zero or One
33:33 - Logical Proof vs. Physical Replication
35:44 - Correlation vs. Causality
36:28 - Ground Truth From Replication Studies
38:12 - Codifying Claims to Surface Contradictions
40:14 - Can You Trust an LLM as a Judge?
42:48 - Synthetic Checks: Truth Is Sparse
45:40 - How Much Miner Variance Is Desirable
46:55 - Why Bittensor Instead of a Closed Company
49:50 - Success, Revenue & the Palantir Comparison
51:47 - The Flood of AI-Written Papers
54:36 - Advice for Discerning Truth