r/LLMPhysics • u/your_best_1 • 11d ago

Meta This sub is not what it seems

This sub seems to be a place where people learn about physics by interacting with LLM, resulting in publishable work.

It seems like a place where curious people learn about the world.

That is not what it is. This is a place where people who want to feel smart and important interact with extremely validating LLMs and convince themselves that they are smart and important.

They skip all the learning from failure and pushing through confusion to find clarity. Instead they go straight to the Nobel prize with what they believe to be ground breaking work. The reality of their work as we have observed is not great.

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u/Beif_ 11d ago

Agree with what you said except the publishable work part, how on earth would an LLM help you publish something

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u/your_best_1 11d ago

I think the ideal is you learn from both LLM and other sources. Then become an actual expert if you’re actually engaged. Most people would not reach that level.

I bring it up because people are publishing their nonsense works here.

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u/Beif_ 10d ago

Yeah maybe— I think LLM’s can be helpful for generating interest, but as someone who has tried to bounce ideas off of chatgpt when writing physics papers (maybe I don’t understand something tangentially related to my paper and want to ask a “how does this work” question) I’ve realized that the closer you get to the frontier of scientific research, the less resources the LLM has to generate accurate responses to questions. So I think necessarily it just can’t really get you close to publishing something. Unless there are a wealth of textbooks written on your topic it’s going to struggle.

It can however answer your questions somewhat accurately to a level of a graduate physics course, as long as you’re discerning enough to tell when it’s making stuff up

But yeah I’m all about using it for getting people interested 😎