Feynman's 'don't fool yourself' meets the AI age: 'well, that's not what Claude told me'
generativist · x · 2026-09-04
A short post pairs Feynman's maxim — "the first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool" — with the modern rebuttal from "slop cannons": "well, that's not what Claude told me." A wry jab at users who treat model output as gospel instead of thinking for themselves.
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