AI circles clash over math-first hubris: 'work in data mines or get big-brain psychosis'
doodlestein · x · 2026-09-12
- Su-chen Chang (@suchenzang) mocked the boundless arrogance of pure mathematicians in AI, predicting such takes will become the next generation of LeCun-style 'autoregressive errors compound exponentially' theories before morphing into a crypto rug-pull.
- @doodlestein piled on with a metaphor: claiming particle physicists best understand cells because cells are made of particles — pure hubris. He quipped math people's edge is just raw IQ ('G') and urged kids to labor at least once in the data and software systems mines.
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