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Re:GPT-5 by jp_nc on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:05PM (#44830352)
I don’t know… Travis Kalanick said he’s doing “vibe physics” sessions with MechaHitler approaching the boundaries of quantum physics.

"I'll go down this thread with 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"

Re:GPT-5 by 4ndrewl on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:18PM (#44830483)
How would he even know? I mean he's not a published academic in any field let alone in quantum physics. I feel the same when I read one of Carlos Ravelli's pop-sci books, but I have fewer followers.
Re:GPT-5 by mattgreenrocks on Thursday August 07, 2025 @07:16PM (#44831563)
He doesn’t. I think it’s the same mental phenomena that Gell-Mann Amnesia works off of.

That interview is practically radioactive levels of cringe for several reasons. This is an excellent takedown of it: https://youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?feature=shared

Re:GPT-5 by foobiekr on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:23AM (#44833401)
This video is excellent and also likely opaque to pretty much most valley tech-supremacy types.
Re:GPT-5 by 4ndrewl on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:12AM (#44834008)
Dashed with a sauce of "surrounded by yes-men and uncritical amplifiers hoping to make a quick buck."
Re:GPT-5 by VectorLock on Friday August 08, 2025 @04:01AM (#44834650)
>In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say.

It feels like this is a lesson we've started to let slip away.

Re:GPT-5 by lukev on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:29PM (#44830615)
This says more about Kalanick than it does about LLMs.
Re:GPT-5 by MangoToupe on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:26PM (#44830578)
I wouldn't trust a CEO to know their ass from their face.
Re:GPT-5 by giardini on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:30AM (#44833766)
Finally, an explanation for my last meeting!8-((
Re:GPT-5 by astrange on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:45AM (#44833827)
Quantum physics attracts crazy people, so they have a lot of examples of fake physics written by crazy people to work off.
Re:GPT-5 by glhaynes on Friday August 08, 2025 @08:58AM (#44836471)
If I were a scammer looking for marks, I'd look for people who take Kalanick seriously on this.