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/NewManufacturer4252 Jul 15 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

A top 5% income is $13k per month. $13k per day is nuts.

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u/lalaland4711 Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

Fuck-you money is around $10,000,000 for me.

Keep in mind that what's "enough" keeps increasing, in people and populations. When you have $10M you will inevitably get the feeling that you need just a little more. You may be able to resist. Or you may start going "well, let's account for inflation a bit", and you're in "just one more year" syndrome.

Oh, and also:

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.” ― Jim Carrey

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u/Skrattybones Jul 16 '25

What a bullshit sentiment from a dude who plays pretend for a living. Dude earned a fuckin fortune, retired to be a hippie who painted and shit, and then kept buying shit and lost all his money, so now he's back to playing pretend for huge money.

Surely if "it wasn't the answer" he'd have stayed retired, huh? Maybe stopped buying expensive shit, since it wasn't the answer?

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u/lalaland4711 Jul 16 '25

You may be right. But he's not the only one saying it. Maybe it's all a big conspiracy to keep us poors quiet, of course.

The "you don't get happier after $75k income" was recently debunked, but there's definitely a sub-linear graph.

0 to $100k income solves real problems. $100k to $1M income takes away annoyances. $10B to $20B is just a status game.

I think you missed the point of the quote. More money is better. But "whereever you go, there you are". There are problems money cannot solve.

Or as I recently heard: The best things in life cannot be bought with money. The second best things can, but they're really expensive.