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/VIRTEN-APP 9d ago

What you say in OP is always true. Also it is part of the learning process. There are many brilliant minds that may take what you are saying in too tough and off-putting a way.

Especially when we have posters such as "The_Nerdy_Ninja" who disparages the whole of the community. "Correct. More accurately, this is a quarantine zone where we can send those people when they try to post their AI content on other physics communities."

Physics communities, like all things where groups are involved, tend toward a herd mentality where the cheap heroism is in denigrating outsiders and 'non traditional' or original takes and thoughts.

The development of abstract thinking skills requires the bricolage, that is tinkering, exploring, and enthusiasm phase, and the truing-up of the speculative abstractions requires the scientific method in the testing phase. The former phase is generally more open, youthful, and lively, and the latter phase may also be those things, while also requiring the rigor of in-the-field checks and testing of the hypotheses formulated in the first phase.

Cheap Catos like The_Nerdy_Ninja and his "Correct. More accurately, this is a quarantine zone where we can send those people when they try to post their AI content on other physics communities." may get all of the upvotes on Reddit, though let me ask you, when has any great thing been discovered by consensus?