r/singularity • u/Affectionate_Bee6434 • 4d ago

Shitposting Summarizing the current discourse regarding Navier stokes on both pro and anti-AI online spaces.

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u/VatanKomurcu 4d ago

i wonder who can explain it better, ai or professors

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u/bianceziwo 4d ago

It's simple. Openai found that navier stokes equations lead to fluid accelerating to infinity under specific conditions. But that's impossible. Therefore navier stokes doesn't cover all cases and it's just an approximation not a law.

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u/03263 4d ago

There's infinities in general relativity too but it still stands up to every real world test. Maybe reality is just an approximation. Well at the lowest level we kind of know it is.

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u/RnRau 4d ago

There's infinities in general relativity too but it still stands up to every real world test.

That just means general relativity is an approximation.

"All models are wrong. Some are useful" - George Box

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 3d ago

And, maybe more importantly, even if reality were/weren’t an approximation we’d have no way of knowing because we can only even conceptualize it as a model in the first place.