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jacksnipe commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture   timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1
phendrenad2 · 6 days ago
Physics has a surprising amount of drama for such a hard science, and I have a theory about that: Physicists, more than chemists or biologists, need more of a solid foundation in logic (of the Aristotle kind), and they really don't have it.

Take this article. It's incredibly, incredibly flawed, and that was evident to me after reading it for 10 seconds. The author immediately starts saying that Weinstein's Geometric Unity has a "lack of seriousness as a scientific theory". Says who? You? That's just begging the question. He also says "this engagement with legitimate science conceals a concerted effort to suppress criticism and mislead the public". But I guess the author doesn't know what "concerted" means because the blog post doesn't really show anything like that, as much as the author tries to force there to be some connection between unrelated content creators.

I also don't really believe the claim that Weinstein threatened a podcast with legal action, unless I see proof. After all, this is physics, a field rife with drama, so you can excuse me for not believing some random personality, who seems from the outside to be a Weinstein clone, trying to make a name for himself by making multiple videos claiming to debunk Weinstein's GU.

There's also a lot of "how dare you" and double-standards in this blog post. For example:

> claimed I am not acting in good-faith and that I’m trying to “bait” him, which are just additional examples of how Brian is going after the messenger rather than sticking to the science

But what if someone really is baiting someone? What if someone baited you? Would you "stick to the science" or make a blog post like this one?

jacksnipe · 6 days ago
The author has previously published an article with a detailed analysis of the math of GU, and why it doesn't work: https://files.timothynguyen.org/geometric_unity.pdf

The reception of that article by the group in question, and their refusal to engage on the math side of it, is what led to him writing this blog post in the first place.

jacksnipe commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent   blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
turblety · 21 days ago
Why has Google totally overcomplicated their subscription models?

Looking at "Google AI Ultra" it looks like I get this Jules thing, Gemini App, Notebook, etc. But if I want Gemini CLI, then I've got to go through the GCP hellscape of trying to create subscriptions, billing accounts then buying Google Code Assist or something, but then I can't get the Gemini app.

Then of course, this Google AI gives me YouTube Premium for some reason (no idea how that's related to anything).

jacksnipe · 20 days ago
I wonder if bundling it with ai is to deal with that pesky internal issue where engineers are always trying to turn off ads for their yt accounts
jacksnipe commented on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says   nytimes.com/2025/07/10/wo... · Posted by u/xbryanx
jacksnipe · 2 months ago
Sorry, but citation needed. Means testing might seem “obvious” from first principles, but from a policy point of view, it makes little to no sense.

The macroeconomic effects of welfare programs create a society that is better for everyone to live in. Reducing the issue to a matter of personal responsibility is a reframing that allows you to completely lose sight of the big picture, and create programs that are destined to fail by not reaching many of the people they need to.

jacksnipe commented on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million   calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/... · Posted by u/c249709
meta_ai_x · 2 months ago
No. We have a double accounting system. For every $1 it creates, it has to create an equivalent liability.

And when something is budgeted for $1 Million, it is $1m nothing more nothing less

jacksnipe · 2 months ago
I mean, that's a very corporate accounting way of looking at it. But countries are not corporations, or even banks, and the abstraction is so leaky it's pretty much never worth using.
jacksnipe commented on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab   nytimes.com/2025/06/12/te... · Posted by u/RyanShook
strict9 · 2 months ago
Off base when considering the likes of Palantir and many others.

Not a fan of the person or many of Meta's business practices. But Meta has given a lot back with Llama and PyTorch, among many other open source contributions. Which others in the space are not doing.

jacksnipe · 2 months ago
Llama was kind of a forced hand though. Yknow, when the model was leaked?
jacksnipe commented on Square Theory   aaronson.org/blog/square-... · Posted by u/aaaronson
jacksnipe · 3 months ago
Wordcels discover category theory lol
jacksnipe commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl
maerF0x0 · 3 months ago
Not to settle on "It's bad" but their so called "results" seems completely obvious.

The congestion policy is disincentivizing/suppressing people's preferred method by making it unaffordable to some, and unappealing to some. We already know that we can use policy to push people away from their preferred to a less preferred method. The items listed in green are mostly obvious as people seek alternatives. It's like highlighting how many fewer chicken deaths would occur if we created an omnivore or meat tax.

IMO what they should be keeping a careful eye on and tracking is how many fewer trips happen to businesses in those areas. How much fewer social interaction is happening across the distances that those car based trips used to occur. And how much harder is it to get goods into the areas. Is less economic activity happening.

In the long run, yes, maybe things will be net better for all, when the $45M per year has had a chance to make alternative transportation methods to be not just policy enforced, but truly _preferred_ option.

jacksnipe · 3 months ago
There are plenty of places where consumption taxes DON’T have a strong effect, like vice taxes on tobacco and alcohol. It’s absolutely worth actually testing it.
jacksnipe commented on Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help   linkedin.com/posts/daniel... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
jstanley · 4 months ago
I think you are misunderstanding them. I also frequently cite ChatGPT, as a way to accurately convey my source, not as a way to claim it as authoritative.
jacksnipe · 4 months ago
I have interrogated it in those cases. I was not misunderstanding.
jacksnipe commented on Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help   linkedin.com/posts/daniel... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
38 · 4 months ago
> when this is some lead in case we're we have no idea what could be the issue

English please

jacksnipe · 4 months ago
We’re was autocorrected from where
jacksnipe commented on Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help   linkedin.com/posts/daniel... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
silversmith · 4 months ago
But is "I asked chatgpt" assigning any authority to it? I use precisely that sentence as a shorthand for "I didn't know, looked it up in the most convenient way, and it sounded plausible enough to pass on".
jacksnipe · 4 months ago
In my own experience, the vast majority of people using this phrase ARE using it as a source of authority. People will ask me about things I am an actual expert in, and then when they don’t like my response, hit me with the ol’ “well, I asked chatGPT and it said…”

u/jacksnipe

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