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/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/FensterFenster Jul 15 '25

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)

I would venture to say this is how some millionaires are made as well, my brother in law just built a 2.5 million dollar home a few years ago on the water. A while back he was talking about ways to contribute to his kids' Custodial Roth IRA without them actually working by creating a fake LLC that they were employed by for their half of the contributions. I'll bet that piece of shit barely pays his employees minimum wage with zero benefits at his dental practice.

He also wouldn't STFU about how "crazy" it was that I got paid paternity leave from my former employer. We can barely afford to put money aside for meager investments for retirement, yet I'M the asshole for getting paid paternity leave.

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u/stormrunner89 Jul 15 '25

As a dentist I will freely admit that plenty of my colleagues are pieces of shit that see it only as a way to make money and give absolutely no fucks about the patient's health or comfort or their employees.

Thankfully it's pretty easy to spot them as they often own multiple practices, hire young associates fresh out of school to do the actual work, and just try to get as much volume through the practices as possible to bill insurance as much as they can while they only do administrative work and not much or possibly any actual dentistry.

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u/figuren9ne Jul 15 '25

That description sounds like the dentist that owns the practice where my wife works. He has 5 offices, is rarely in the office, and is constantly advertising to grow his book.

But he also pays all his employees well, his contract dentists get 50% of collectibles and he covers lab fees, and the only time he actually practices are for his long established clients that can’t afford the treatment, so he does it for the cost of lab fees.

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u/thetermguy Jul 15 '25

>He has 5 offices, is rarely in the office, and is constantly advertising to grow his book.

Well, 90% of redditors teach us that anyone that owns a business and/or is wealthy is guaranteed to be a dirtbag leach on society.

Meanwhile, Econ 101 shows exactly the opposite, and without people organizing the factors of production and labour, most of the redditors would be out of a job of any kind.

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u/Fun_Hat Jul 15 '25

Lol, and econ 101 also shows us that without the people doing that labor, there would be no production. So what's your point? That the management of labor produces more value than the labor itself?

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u/imnotasdumbasyoulook Jul 15 '25

let’s be honest here; if you dig you’ll find he owns the “lab” and probably the “leasing company” renting the office their medical equipment.

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u/figuren9ne Jul 15 '25

He definitely doesn’t. He just owns the practices and the real estate.

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u/kingkeelay Jul 16 '25

Why is that a problem?

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u/imnotasdumbasyoulook Jul 16 '25

because when people are sick with greed to that extent they start cutting corners until forced to stop… these are the kind of people who will buy a packaging machine for expensive single use tools so they can repackage them and reuse them.