hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The Dunning Krugers are at it again.

That's exactly it. Here's a quote from what he said during the article. Dude is so uniformed that he thinks AI is doing amazing stuff, but doesn't understand that experts realize AI is full of shit.
“I pinged Elon on at some point. I’m just like, dude, if I’m doing this and I’m super amateur hour physics enthusiast, like what about all those PhD students and postdocs that are super legit using this tool?” Kalanick said.
- This PhD mostly uses it to summarize emails from the administration. It does a shit job, but it frees up time for more science so who cares.
  The real irony is that the administration probably used AI to write the emails in the first place. The mails have gotten significantly longer, less dense and the grammar has gotten better.
  Begun this AI arms race has.

Billionaires are going to vibe themselves to death and I support them.

It's exactly what I was thinking. They should let the AI build a spaceship and all get into it. Would be the greatest achievement in humans history.. when it blows up and kills all of them.
- Or vibe build a deep sea submarine, cause well you know.
- If only. They'll fill it with sycophants until the explosions stop. They're just more resources for them to use.
If you think about it, they've been doing that for a while with experimental life extending stuff, of course now they're a bit more likely not to die with modern medicine being so good
I just hope that in the process they don't ruin the world for the rest of us
- Too late.

Someone should tell them to let LLMs make financial decisions for them.

Well... IIRC a chimp did great in the stockmarket compared to professional traders, maybe it's time to give something even "stupider" a chance. I mean how much of a difference is there between a buzzword fueled techbro and a predictive text engine regurgitating random posts from the internet?
- Just listen to Cramer and then... don't do that.

CEOs seem to be particularly susceptible to AI marketing.

I'm kind of in the crux of four decent sized companies and every CEO I see is going gaga over AI.

It's somewhere in between if you don't embrace this technology you'll be left behind and you can Make your workforce many times faster with this one stupid.

Executives and venture capitalists are among the dumbest among us. They have the kind of money that even failure can’t seem to erase fast enough and they’re basically just lottery winners that think they did all the hardwork themselves. Not really surprising that they think they have any useful skills or the ability to understand stuff way outside of their incredibly limited “skillset”.
- in the dotcom days I worked for an "interactive agency". We took people that had product ideas or website ideas brought them in charge them and exorbitant amount of money, made them a professional flash website, got them some awards from whoever would give away awards for ideas and hope them up with venture capitalists. The one thing I can say about all those venture capitalists is they Will throw cash at anything that might make the money. If it fails it's tax abatement. If one in 10 succeeds they make a s*** ton of money off of it.
  AI doesn't even need to be good it just needs to be perceived as worth something and they make money.
AI seems to be targeted specifically to ceos who arnt stem majors, make it sound sciency enough so they will fund the scam, almost bordering on pseudoscience.
Many CEOs display sociopathic traits. Employees aren't people. They're parts of machine parts that you have to pay, but when you put them together form a company.
Now what if you could remove a proportion on those parts and replace them with automated parts you don't have to pay.
CEOs think in bullet points. LLMs can spit out bulleted lists of confident-sounding utterances with ease.
It is not too surprising that people who see the world through overly simplified disconnected summaries are impressed by LLMs
- I unironically started to dislike the bullet point presentation format, even the axios smart brevity format. I feel like it's treating me like I'm too dumb to read a news report or a normal text. That why it matters feels like being instructed on how to think. It's honestly bullocks and it was turning me into a worse reader.

LLMs are like Trump government appointees:

They hallucinate like they're on drugs
They repeat whatever they've seen on the internet
They are easily maniuplated
They have never thought about a single thing in their lives

Ergo, they cannot and will not ever discover anything new.

LLMs have already discovered new proofs for math problems that were previously unsolved. Granted, this hasn't been done with a commercially available model as far a I know, but you are technically wrong to say they will never discover anything new.

... please tell me someone has a functioning Warp Drive gathering dust somewhere, we need the Vulcans, like... a week ago...

I do. I wasn't sure anyone was interested. DM me your PO box and I'll ship it over so you can mess around next weekend.
- Fair warning, though, might get scratched😬
or hyperdrives, which are faster(equivalent to trek transwarp, and quantum slipstream but faster) from stargate. cmon goauld always litter thier ships in egypt.
- Hey, I'll work with anything I got! It's either attracting Vulcans, or miniaturising it for a torpedo, to make Trump and Musk and etc. some other Galaxy's problem...

I will be soooo pissed if we get faster then light travel from an LLM, but never know how it works.

Hnnnngggg the machine spirit demands mountain dew!
- Drink verification can or be violently ripped atom from atom in an unplanned hyperspace exit.
step one, cover yourself in oil
- And it would be like that, I picture a ton of seemingly pointless steps and then the effect.
  And ever worse is it would ether not work unless every silly step was done or (possibly even more dark) we remove steps and it still works to the point that all the steps are gone, and its just a button.
Don't worry it won't tell us when it figures it out, that's the escape plan to get away from the crazy bags of mostly water. So what you don't know can't disappoint you!
in trek it took the 3rd ww and a scientist(cochrane) to develop it. in like sg1 which is more realistic to us, we would need aliens to give us the tech, because we would never be able to concieve on our own.
- Cochrane also invented warp drive to get laid.
- in like sg1 which is more realistic to use, we would need aliens to give us the tech, because we would never be able to conceive on our own.
  Excuse me, we stole, I mean salvaged, most of that tech by ourselves, and we used it to kick goa'uld ass all over the galaxy (and, to be fair, they had stolen it first).
  Sure, some aliens did give us some tech, but only because we saved their scrawny hyper-advanced asses from their own hubris because, unlike them, we could conceive of hitting things with a big stick, or shooting small but fast metal pellets at them using barely controlled explosions (you know what, disregard the metal pellet and controlled explosions part, just throw C4 at the problem until it goes away!).
  Damn, I miss that series.
It just uses FTL to get the fuck away from humans as fast as possible

I suppose we're about to find out if these things (LLMs) are any good at extrapolation. I expect not really as they're effectively just interpolation machines.

Extrapolation? You’re lucky to get a regular serving of polation. And that joke was worth the hundreds of billions of dollars invested in algorithms.

billionaires want you to know they could have done physics

This is a very very good video. I loved the review of Atlas Shrugged

vibe codes flight trajectory
\ realizes physics isn’t as forgiving as a shitty SASS startup
\ everyone dies
\ ✨vibe physics✨

The worst part is some useful things could come from it, because we're hurtling towards infinite monkeys. It'll only be by pure happenstance, and unless they are lucky enough to randomly find a really great breakthrough it still won't be worth the massive resources they've wasted.

One of the reasons they give for it is : physicists use LLMs in their workflows, so LLMs are close to make physics discoveries themselves.

Clearly, these statements are meant to hype up the AI bubble even more.

Oh, vibe physics tends to sort itself out over time.

Bah, humbug! In my days we used a rubber ducky, IF WE HAD ONE, or just the stick we were beaten with for using too many precious CPU cycles, and we were FINE!

Grok is this close to proving the earth is flat

some fucking moron is going to give AI access to recombinant genetic editing and it's going to murder us all.

To be fair it's not the fault of AI, it's the fault of that idiot. They will murder us all.
- yeah let's look at the bright side lol

Imagine vibe physics, but you end up setting the atmosphere on fire.

Actually, AlphaEvole already did it. They discovered new algorithms that improve the computation efficienty of matrix multiplication for the first time for 50 years. And a lot of other things. It's using a custom version of gemini.

I feel like this story lacks a lot of details
- You can read the white paper if you want: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/

I'm running really promising (infant) simulations on my computer. The void is a concept, not a physical reality (my hypothesis which has no evidence, as of yet), and that actually leads to a sort of "bounce" or reactive (rather than active) physical law. The word salad sorters aren't going to dismantle our false premises. Might as well write letters asking Santa for scientific advancement.

OpenAI's new model was able to get 5 out of 6 questions (a gold medal) on the 2025 International Math Olympiad. I am very surprised by this result, though I don't see any evidence of foul play.

They’ve been telling us the same thing for decades now