Posted by outlier99 1 day ago
I'm not sure why you would consider new and promising avenues for research to not be ground breaking. If it's an idea worth trying, it's an idea worth trying. If it doesn't survive testing, then it was still worth trying.
You could characterise perceiving a fact to be true when it is not as a hallucination.
An idea is not a fact, Frodo Baggins is not a hallucination, but an idea. Believing that Frodo Baggins exists in our world could be considered a hallucination.
Newtons Laws of motion are not hallucinations even though the universe does not run on Newtonian physics. If I said that he told me about them this morning, that would be claiming a fact, not expressing an idea. That would likely be a hallucination.
>Frodo Baggins is not a hallucination
It is if physicist have to spend time to experimentally verify he exists and is a Hobbit.
>I'm not sure why you would consider new and promising avenues for research to not be ground breaking.
Because it was made by the "I made it the fuck up machine" PR division and it wasn't verified. You don't know if its assumptions are correct. At release a PR claimed it found 79 vulnerabilities[1], and of those there were like 10 bugs. Most of them turned to be minor and were fixed in an hour.
> Newtons Laws of motion are not hallucinations even though the universe does not run on Newtonian physics.
All physics models are approximations. However only some are useful.
Newtons laws are useful. Me coming up with theory of emotional particles is not. Me asking for experimental verification of the theory is waste of resources.
[1] This is the daily reminder that in year 2026 Mythos still couldn't count. Turns out 24+14+3+15+26 != 79. It's 82.
This is something a couple of materials science grad students can do in limited time for poor compensation as well. The expensive budget is for the part that comes next.
This is what you sound like. I also like how the goalposts keep moving on a daily basis, a year ago it was that LLMs can't even write a Hello World program without making an error, but now things like this are "so easy a minimum wage intern could do it."