yeah, i've got a string theory for you. it's made of twine

physicist matpat: "but that's just a theory. a STRING THEORY"

now but what if the strings were really good

get those string theorists' asses

i kinda wish we had good beef like this in computer science

maybe there is and it's drowned out by all the marks acting like we just need one more GPU to invent god and blowjobs

i think there are probably P = NP cranks and such, but they're harder to hear over the very loud and wealthy LLM cranks

okay, that's an insult to cranks. Cranks believe their weird little niche theory for the love of the game

that being said "string theorists getting very rich by selling bad science to the public" is basically what's been happening to computer science since the AI boom

and the crypto boom

and the other, worse AI boom