Publicity Stunt Fallout
>> something went terribly wrong—something that risks damaging trust in the scientific process itself. And I think it’s worth reflecting on what we can do to prevent it from happening again.IMHO it's waaay too late. This kind of over the top bombastic shit happens at least once a week in mainstream media. The unknowing probably think we will be in some kind Star Trek future in a few years. Then there's me who just shrugs that someone's duping the public yet again.The solution is to just stop going public.You know they better prove that quantum computers are actually "better" than classical ones because every Turing machine can be simulated starting from 15 gliders in Life - a recent result that I found fascinating but didn't go mainstream. Why? Because people proving things in Life understand its a niche thing and don't have egos the size of Andromeda.