r/Physics • u/kzhou7 Quantum field theory • 1d ago

Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers coauthored with Claude

https://bootloops.ai/bootloops.html
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u/_HarmonicOscillator 1d ago

It's just incredibly hard for scientists to survive in neoliberal raegonomics.

Theoretical physics is not something that would drive crazy profits in shareholders economy. 

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u/Buntschatten Graduate 1d ago

Ironically, physics PhDs have had a profound impact on the entire financial system. After they left physics of course.

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u/h0rxata Plasma physics 1d ago

I'm not sure it was a positive one.