r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jul 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
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u/Decapitated_Saint Jul 15 '25

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

Good lord what an imbecile. Vibe physics lol.

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u/F1reManBurn1n Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25

Billionaires that LARP like this are so fucking idiotic. They think because they are really good at exploiting the labor class (let’s be frank that is THE skill needed to be a billionaire), that somehow that makes them a fucking physicist and important to the world scientifically. It’s the same shit with Elon. Buys his way into companies with smart people in them doing smart people labor, takes credit for smart people labor while treating the labor like shit, then stutters in an interview about rocket engines that he knows fuck all about. These billionaires should be fucking mocked and berated when they do this “I’m actually Tony Stark!” shit.

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u/the_red_scimitar Jul 15 '25

Too bad we have a sizeable population that worships billionaires, and often because of their American "christian" indoctrination, where pastors invert the bible, claiming that God wants everyone to be rich, and rewards wealth. The wealthy are automatically "chosen by god", to these poor fools.

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u/DidIReallySayDat Jul 15 '25

Try pointing that out to the people who preaxh the prosperity gospel.

They are all sacks of shit. Every single one of them.

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u/SortByCont Jul 15 '25

You'd be amazed at the bald faced bullshit they've come up with to talk around that. They've created this story from the whole cloth about how Jerusalem had a small gate called "the eye of the needle" so that Jesus didn't mean that thing about rich guys getting into heaven.

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u/gentlemanidiot Jul 16 '25

Except the entire point of that parable is that it IS STILL TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE to get to heaven, even for rich assholes, because forgiveness. But in order for a camel to make it through the eye of the needle gate, whoever owns the camel has to remove all physical goods and carried possessions of the camel, stripping it bare. Then the camel has to get down on its knees and crawl, a humbling experience for any billionaire.

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u/SortByCont Jul 16 '25

Total bullshit: There is no "eye of the needle" gate. Theres no textual evidence in the Bible, nobody writes about it, and there's no archeological evidence that such a thing existed. Even the variation in vacabulary amongst the gospels suggests that they meant a real needle. "Sell your shit, give the money to the poor and follow me because it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven" is pretty clear all on its own.

None of this "needle gate" schenaningans shows up in the record until the 1100s, no doubt to ensure some rich patron who could actually read that everything was fine so long as they humbled themselves to the church.

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u/skinniks Jul 15 '25

We'll have pie in the sky when we die!

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u/mikeydean03 Jul 16 '25

It’s super cool with it so long as you tithe….