> vibe codes flight trajectory
> realizes physics isn’t as forgiving as a shitty SASS startup
> everyone dies
> ✨vibe physics✨
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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.
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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.
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.
I feel the same way. This style of thinking can have pretty serious consequences for decision makers.
But, on the other hand, all my bosses think in bullet points, and I am usually the one that writes the bullets. . .
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.
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.
Is AI porn vibe sex?
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.
Out of context, and I didn't read the rest, that sounds reasonable.
"If my dumbass is learning and finding, what about actual pros?!"
"If I'm learning this much from Baby's First ABCs, imagine what a literature professor could do with it!"
"Turns out there are 319 letters in the alphabet and 16 Rs! When the experts get a hold of this, they're going to be blown away!"
Lots of things seem reasonable if you skip the context and critical reasoning. It's good to keep some past examples of this that personally bother you in your back pocket. Then you have it as an antidote for examples that don't bother you.
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.
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I just hope that in the process they don't ruin the world for the rest of us
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Grok is this close to proving the earth is flat
LLMs: hallucinate like that guy from school who took every drug under the moon.
Actual trained specially AI: finds new particles, cures for viruses, stars, methods…
But the latter one doesn’t tell it in words, it does in the special language you use to get the data in the first place, like numbers and codes.
Just to built on this and give some more unasked for info:
All of AI is a fancy dancy interpolation algorithm. Mostly, too fancy for us to understand how it works.
LLMs use that interpolation to predict next words in sentences. With enough complexity you get ChatGPT.
Other AIs still just interpolate from known data, so they point to reasonable conclusions from known data. Then those hypotheses still need to be studied and tested.
Neural Networks, which are the base technology of what nowadays gets called AI, are just great automated pattern detection systems, which in the last couple of years with the invention of things like adversarial training can also be made to output content that match those patterns.
The simpler stuff that just does pattern recognition without the fancy outputting stuff that matches the pattern was already, way back 3 decades ago, recognized at being able to process large datasets and spot patterns which humans hadn't been able to spot: for example there was this NN trained to find tumors in photos which seemed to work perfectly in testing but didn't work at all in practice, and it turned out that the NN had been trained with pictures were all those with tumors had a ruler next to it showing its size and those without tumors did not, so the pattern derived in training by the NN for "tumor present" was actually the presence of the ruler.
Anyways, it's mainly this simpler and older stuff that can be used to help with scientific discovery by spotting in large datasets patterns which we humans have not, mainly because they can much faster and more easily trawl through an entire haystack to find the needles than we humans can, but like in the "tumor detection NN" example above, sometimes the patterns aren't in the data but in the way the data was obtained.
The fancy stuff that actually outputs content that matches patterns detected in the data, such as LLMs and image generation, and which is fueling the current AI bubble, is totally irrelevant for this kind of use.
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
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.
There was an anti Cramer index fund for a while.
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.
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It just uses FTL to get the fuck away from humans as fast as possible
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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.
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.
By this logic my chair is close to make physics discoveries.
Imagine vibe physics, but you end up setting the atmosphere on fire.
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!
... 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.
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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.
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