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  • Anyone. Show the proof that anyone is wrong. Linus Torvalds’ opinion isn’t proof of anything.

    The scientific method gives you a way to disprove the hypothesis and you can’t do it. The fact that some, or dozens, or hundreds of people disagree doesn’t disprove anything.

    Truth isn’t a democracy.

    Edit:

    The proof that Einstein was right wasn’t that his name was Albert and that he was respected by other physicists. Early on, he wasn’t respected by other physicists.

    What proved him right was the apparent position of Mercury near the sun, proving that gravity bent light, proving his theory of relativity.

    Newton’s laws of motion didn’t account for that. And that proved Newton wrong.



  • No, it doesn’t assume TootSweet is Einstein.

    It’s pretty sad that you seem to think that popular opinions are correct.

    Plenty of popular opinions are wrong. And unpopular opinions are right.

    The popular opinion is that AI is great at coding. But there isn’t much evidence that it is. There’s lots of evidence that it produces a lot of lines of code. Scant little evidence that it’s good code.

    Hence the analogy to hamburger versus steak. They’re both beef, so technically the same. But hamburger is adulterated and watered-down. Steak is the real deal. So AI code is to real enginnering.





  • No. Not that one.

    There’s a story that a reporter said to Einstein “100 physicists have signed a letter saying your theory of relativity is wrong” to which Einstein replies “if they were right, it would only take one.”

    Apocryphal or not, the point remains that truth is not a democracy. If a million people say AI is great, it doesn’t make it so — even if one of those people is the primary maintainer of the the Linux kernel.

    And billions of people eat at McDonald’s, but that doesn’t make a hamburger better than a steak. Or any more ethical.