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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.