minus-squarebtsax@reddthat.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentientlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 day agoA lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites: Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS Just winning a Nobel doesn’t automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field. linkfedilink
A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:
Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems
James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists
Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s
Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories
Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS
Just winning a Nobel doesn’t automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.