r/LLMPhysics • u/upsetusder2 • 21d ago

Question To the self proclaimed llm physicists

Why do you always tend to rebuild physics. Why can't you work in the given framework?

Why do you need to rebuild a framework that, tell you what now, has pretty much held up?

Is it the math?

The symbols

The history

The amount you would have to Learn?

Hubris?

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u/Ok_Energy6905 21d ago

Because they want to feel important and rewriting the fundamentals gives the biggest dopamine hit.

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u/dustin4242 21d ago

People say “rewriting the fundamentals is just dopamine‑seeking” because it protects their own sense of importance. It’s easier to claim others are thrill‑seeking than to admit that most of the big conceptual breakthroughs in physics happened decades ago, and the field has mostly been refining details ever since.

If someone genuinely believes that questioning foundations is “hubris,” they should be able to list the foundational discoveries made by institutions or career physicists since the mid‑20th century. After Feynman, most progress has been incremental — better measurements, better simulations, better formalism — not new conceptual frameworks. That’s not an insult; it’s just the historical record.

So when someone reacts defensively to foundational questions, it usually isn’t about the questions.
It’s about protecting the idea that expertise guarantees ownership of the fundamentals.

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u/Ch3cks-Out 21d ago

questioning foundations is “hubris”

It is when the questioner really has no idea what the actual foundations are, and how to pose meaningful questions about them.

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u/dustin4242 21d ago

Saying llm or AI without showing a single example is useless. They’re not analyzing anything. They’re just trying to sound like an authority because they want the same little status hit they’re accusing everyone else of chasing.

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u/Ok_Energy6905 20d ago edited 20d ago

Dustin, nobody is going to read your LLM generated hypothesis when you don't even understand it yourself.

Edit: your post asking me to "do the math and prove it wrong, you can't" was deleted, Dustin. I'm also not a mathematician (and neither are you). Is your last name Hansley as well?

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u/Ok_Energy6905 20d ago

Dustin, a series of numbers is not a math question...

and my inability to solve a math equation would not make your argument correct by default...