As was pointed out on Twitter, this paper, while amusing, should not have made it through arXiv moderation, as the arXiv specifically prohibits "joke" submissions in favor of papers which are, at least ostensibly, serious scientific contributions.

To me, this undermines the credibility of the other content since the "joke" tries to portray as genuine by being published on arxiv. It sort of dilutes to credibility of others.

Arxiv isn’t supposed to be a badge of credibility. It’s literally the place any academic can dump a paper to have it stored free forever. Many academic papers that never make it into journals are stored there. From their homepage they say:

> Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv

That said, they shouldn’t actively accept joke papers of course.

Which is good, since people shouldn't get the impression that arxiv implies credibility

There is normally at least a credibility of "this is earnest work"

What outlet of serious rational reviews and outputs should be considered?

Not quite related to joke articles, potentially worse though: https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-did-a-peer-reviewed-jo...

Back in the day, this got published in SIGGRAPH proceedings: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220721478_Ray_traci... .

It has "Comments: This is a silly article". Was that not there initially?

I don't mind joke publications on the arXiv as long as they at least save it for April 1.

At least it knows it's a joke.

proof-of-steak plays an enormous role in meatverse

https://meatver.se/

This proves how hollow claims of "green crypto" are. This is about as far from a vegan token as you can get.

I understand that Proof of Steak can be combined with Proof of Wok...

Only if we open sauce...

Sounds like we're ready to strfry.

Please don't implement Proof of Steak and Proof of Wok without Proof of Spice.

Well if you read the paper it's clearly stated that it comes as an alternative after the recent crackdown of China on Proof of Wok.

Didn’t bother reading but I hope they used hash browns for their secure hashing function.

The Meatverse uses a cryptographic hache: https://meatver.se

Impossible Foods is definitely going to fork this.

Could someone give me a good pointer for Proof of Stake? Most of websites I can find are just bag of buzzword and totally useless.

>Animal welfare and rights are also crucial for creating a trustworthy and reliable Proof-of-Steak platform. We go beyond traditional animal welfare requirements by affording our animals all of the rights granted to “natural persons” under the GDPR. To comply with GDPR Article 25 on data protection by design, we use differential privacy and distributed analytics [2] to obfuscate the identity of any given Kobe cow so as to prevent them from being singled out.

Ok, that's pretty funny.

But bovine livestock is a massive contributor to global warming!