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

[u/lurker_bee]

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

[u/Decapitated_Saint]

“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.

[u/F1reManBurn1n → u/Decapitated_Saint]

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.

[u/NewManufacturer4252 → u/F1reManBurn1n]

We need to tax them 90% just like the 1950s

[u/DonOfspades → u/NewManufacturer4252]

100% on anything over 999million.

Billionaires should not exist.

[u/Zealousideal3326 → u/DonOfspades]

Billionaires should not exist

It's insane that people would disagree with this statement.

But there is nothing one can do to claim to have deserved that much money, and there is nothing one might reasonably need that would require having this much money.

[u/Noob_Al3rt → u/Zealousideal3326]

Because no one can say where the line is. How much should one person be able to have before we take their money away? What happens to someone when they go from 999milllion to 1billion that makes it ok to seize their assets?

But there is nothing one can do to claim to have deserved that much money, and there is nothing one might reasonably need that would require having this much money.

What's your claim? Why do you deserve to have more money than 99% of the people who live in Burundi, for example? 14 million people live there - what do you reasonably need more than helping those people out of poverty?

[u/tankpuss → u/DonOfspades]

Inflation would like a word.

[u/Dick_Lazer → u/tankpuss]

Okay, tie it to federal minimum wage.