The c-suite is perpetually in love with it, and as someone who often consults start-ups, it's impossible to dissuade them. Every month I have to explain why their product isn't working, and every month I'm surprised by how much longer they want to throw money at vibe coded projects.

I say... at this point let it all burn to the ground with glorious malicious compliance.

plasma physics

Let's be honest here, plasma physics has never been a fascinating field of research. It makes this similar to anteater study - ever boring. If I had to choose two things to throw from the cliff, let's say plasma physics shouldn't feel safe in this case

as it pertains to plasma physics

Go on...

And how will that help? 

That's really not fair to universities or the inventors. Knowledge is not inherently evil, and things that have far reaching positive impacts can be used for nefarious purposes. Modern society has perverse incentives, but individuals adding to a corpus of humanity's knowledge are not the ones at fault.

i think people who worked on llms either thought their work would geniunely make world better, or they are "just following orders" people.

Ethics/civics would only be useful if you saw this as a possible outcome. Most of us are just looking to solve problems and make everyone's lives easier.

I keep seeing this, but I think people forget what things were like before we had a formalized education system. They were not good. The modern system can certainly be improved, but it has overall improved upon itself essentially since its inception. I'm not sure if there's some kind of golden age of US education people are imagining, or they're just pointing out current flaws, but it really is (unfortunately or not) the best it's ever been.

Been saying this forever, AI didn't kill the education system, it just highlighted its inadequacies and failure with higher sensitivity

Linda McMahon: "boy do I have good news for you!"