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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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More physics wannabe posting
"GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006594
Someone claiming to be one of the authors showed up in the comments saying that they couldn't have done it without GPT... which just makes me think "skill issue", honestly.
Even a true-blue sporadic success can't outweigh the pervasive deskilling, the overstressing of the peer review process, the generation of peer reviews that simply can't be trusted, and the fact that misinformation about physics can now be pumped interactively to the public at scale.
"The bus to the physics conference runs so much better on leaded gasoline!" "We accelerated our material-testing protocol by 22% and reduced equipment costs. Yes, they are technically blood diamonds, if you want to get all sensitive about it..."
Why have automated Lysenkoism, and improved on it, anybody can now pick their own crank idea to do a Lysenko with. It is like Uber for science.