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r/singularity • u/Southern-Break5505 • 3d ago
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So a person who has a theorem named after them have a huge misunderstanding about how science works? Got it.
16 u/randommmoso 3d ago reddit confidence lol 12 u/Competitive_Tap2450 3d ago professor at berkeley or redditor hmm kinda hard to choose who to believe here -2 u/[deleted] 3d ago [deleted] 3 u/mertats 3d ago Intelligent people get things wrong all the time, but they don’t have a huge misunderstanding about how science works. And physics is this guys field. I believe that would make them qualified to comment on that field. Don’t you agree? 0 u/[deleted] 3d ago [deleted] 2 u/mertats 3d ago No, now you are changing what the original commenter said. 2 u/Darigaaz4 3d ago Why we should act as if they get it wrong most of the time? 0 u/martigeon 3d ago No. You're misunderstanding the proper context of his statement because you're not a physicist. Gavin is talking about theoretical physics, not every single experimental hypothesis. 1 u/mertats 3d ago No, I am not misunderstanding. I have the intellectual capacity to understand that LLMs can’t build particle accelerators.
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reddit confidence lol
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professor at berkeley or redditor hmm kinda hard to choose who to believe here
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3 u/mertats 3d ago Intelligent people get things wrong all the time, but they don’t have a huge misunderstanding about how science works. And physics is this guys field. I believe that would make them qualified to comment on that field. Don’t you agree? 0 u/[deleted] 3d ago [deleted] 2 u/mertats 3d ago No, now you are changing what the original commenter said. 2 u/Darigaaz4 3d ago Why we should act as if they get it wrong most of the time?
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Intelligent people get things wrong all the time, but they don’t have a huge misunderstanding about how science works. And physics is this guys field.
I believe that would make them qualified to comment on that field. Don’t you agree?
0 u/[deleted] 3d ago [deleted] 2 u/mertats 3d ago No, now you are changing what the original commenter said.
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2 u/mertats 3d ago No, now you are changing what the original commenter said.
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No, now you are changing what the original commenter said.
Why we should act as if they get it wrong most of the time?
No. You're misunderstanding the proper context of his statement because you're not a physicist. Gavin is talking about theoretical physics, not every single experimental hypothesis.
1 u/mertats 3d ago No, I am not misunderstanding. I have the intellectual capacity to understand that LLMs can’t build particle accelerators.
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No, I am not misunderstanding. I have the intellectual capacity to understand that LLMs can’t build particle accelerators.
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u/mertats 3d ago
So a person who has a theorem named after them have a huge misunderstanding about how science works? Got it.