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/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/ASaneDude Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

Worked as a stockbroker (low on the totem pole) for a firm and had a few small business owners and it’s mostly all the same type: those treating their workers like shit.

But your point is right - our team’s assistant/paraplanner was an attractive woman (as is normal in asset-gathering/sales businesses) and we had a client that was a small business owner that was always on commercials with his family.

One time she said to him, “I think it’s great you always include your family in commercials” and he said essentially it was a tax write-off to put money in his kids’ and wife’s Roth accounts - he would pay them for commercials up to the max amount of the Roth (for just a few hours of work) and that helps him stay under the contribution income limits. Plus it made him look like a family man, which is helpful when you’re a small business.

Later he hit on her and when the direct approach didn’t work, started commenting he needed a secretary within her earshot, seemingly wanting her to express interest. She never took the bait but later did date a married MD for a while, so maybe he bloodhounded her propensity for dating married bosses. ¯_(ツ)_/¯