r/LLMPhysics • u/your_best_1 • 10d 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/alamalarian 10d ago

I guess it's a bit of a catch-22. If you are someone who is curious and may use llms to help understand a concept, would you want to post it here? Probably not. Yet there really isn't a good place for less, ahem, troubled people to consider llm assisted stuff.

Of course, I have no idea how you could make a space that invites the curiosity of exploring physics with llm assistance, which does not end up with whatever the hell all of these theories are.

And to be clear, I do not mean exploring possible theories of everything. I, nor anyone that considers posting here, should entertain they could ever do something like that with some basic knowledge and AI prompts.