He’s building a whole theory on this now. Or rather, Chat GPT is doing it for him.
With an interesting little mistake. Sure, sure, quantum is different from Newton. And yet Newton still gets us to the Moon. Newton still describes that table right there. Quantum’s useful with the titchy, Newton with the large scale.
You know, like microeconomics and macroeconomics?
He’s already shown he doesn’t even have a popular science level understanding of QM. He’s using the syllogism beloved by cranks (not sure who came up with it):
Quantum mechanics makes no sense
But quantum mechanics is true
My theory makes no sense
Therefore my theory is true
Newtonian should be compared to Einsteinian, not Quantum. Totally different fields of Physics.
Someone once asked on his blog if govt spending over the last 15 years is a lifetime time high a, debt has grown, and we’ve had austerity, then where did it all go. That’s quantum uncertainty.
It’s just a cool sounding word, like Ant-Man goes into the Quantum Realm. So I guess Potato Man in the Quantum Economics Realm.
Bongo:
‘Someone once asked on his blog if govt spending over the last 15 years is a lifetime time high a, debt has grown, and we’ve had austerity, then where did it all go. That’s quantum uncertainty.’
This is the well-known QMonetarism example we call Schrodinger’s debt. You don’t know whether it’s gone until you look in the box. Then you know it’s gone.
Yes, rhoda. “Quantum economics” does have an analogy to quantum mechanics as it relates to government spending.
There is a limit to how precisely you can know both how much was spent and where it was spent. The more precisely you quantify how much was spent, the less precisely you can know where that extra (it’s always extra) went. Due to the larger amount of protesting from the pass-through entities where the extra started its journey…
“Quantum economics” means your money could suddenly appear in his pocket.
Oh Gawd, you’re right, the retard is now posting his ChatGPT wank sessions, about a complex science topic he clearly doesn’t understand, as if either him or the Magic Autocomplete are capable of reasoning.
Many such cases, btw. LLMs have unleashed a tsunami of Dunning-Kruger and also the sort of well-formatted junk text Ritchie just posted to his blog.
Remember: LLMs are fancy digital versions of the Magic 8-ball or the Chinese Room thought experiment. They don’t know anything and lie a lot. They are incapable of understanding or coming up with novel theories for the same reason Autocomplete on your text messages isn’t going to write the collected works of Shakespeare. It’s the blind leading the thick..
https://manchestermill.co.uk/the-fake-journalist-and-ai-writing-our-news/
Admiral Adama did nothing wrong.
“Totally different fields of Physics.”
Don’t you worry your head about that. String Theory will ride to the rescue. Just give it a few more decades.
He knocked out this theory over a cup of coffee with his wife, (who I assume is equally clueless) The man is undoubtedly a genius. Next week a cure for cancer over breakfast. Why does anyone else bother? Just plug in the potato and put a pound in the meter
I think this probably applies:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rarcxjGp47dcHftCP/your-llm-assisted-scientific-breakthrough-probably-isn-t
Martin near the M25
That is not a syllogism.
A syllogism has two premises – a major premise and a minor premise – and a conclusion that, by the laws of logic, follows from them. A classic example is: “All humans are mortal” (major premise), “Socrates is human” (minor premise), “Therefore, Socrates is mortal” (conclusion). However, valid syllogistic form is not a guarantee of truth, because a false conclusion can be validly derived from false premises: eg ‘All dolphins are economists.’ ‘Flipper is a dolphin ‘. Therefore, ‘Flipper is an economist’.
The lesswrong piece Martin linked to had an interesting link to a NYT article about some poor devil who would up in a hallucinating spiral with ChatGPT, where he and the AI were (in his mind) creating an entirely new field of science that would “revolutionize everything” – and bring him untold riches. He lost a month of his life to it, with ChatGPT continually telling him he was a genuis, his ideas were earth-shattering and revolutionary (although they were nonsense).
RTWT
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eU8.uku7.M0cYT_HrGu6r&smid=url-share
Thank you Theo. I probably mangled it. I can’t remember where the original came from.
Anybody fancy putting on a Swedish accent and giving Spud a ring? He’ll probably be expecting it.
Oops – meant to add: With the potato’s already swollen ego and grandiosity, I can see this being a significant hazard for his “working” with an LLM to “develop” new ideas, theories, and so on. He relies on his small army of sycophants (PDR, anyone?) for intellectual validation as it is. What will he be like when he has the giant brain of ChatGPT telling him he is a revolutionary genius?
What I found hilarious is he basically asked ChatGPT to take a straw man and build a narrative around it. Genuinely he lives in a parallel universe. His characterisation of classical economics is so bad had he been a Cambridge Undergraduate that essay would have barely scraped a third.
His conclusion is also half – baked. We live in a world of uncertainty therefore the state must have total control of everything. I’d have thought it’s an argument for having far more points of resilience – not less!
He is using ChatGPT?
*sigh*. How long before it drives him to a murder-suicide?
Seriously, a man with his level of poor mental health should not be messing with that.
Put your hands by your side and step away from the LLM.
Step away from the LLM.
STEP. AWAY. FROM THE LLM.
BNAG! BNAG!</b
I already posted about this topic on another thread a week or two ago.
I suggest a size 9 up his Higgs Bosun.
I guess a Higgs Bosun is how you give weight (mass) to your sailing expertise ?
I’m actually quite interested in Quantum Economics.
I’m looking forward to the economic equivalent of many quantum mechanics. Here’s a few to get us started.
Spooky action at a distance – this is when an unexpected bonus lands in your pay packet, but simultaneously increases your tax bill as well.
Quantum tunneling – this is when your money magically disappears from your pocket. Most commonly occurs on packed train carriages…
Pauli’sSpud’s Exclusion Principle – Two pounds can’t be in the same place. So if you have two pounds, then you need to pay one in tax to stop the violation of the laws of physics. And be joyful about it.Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle – we can’t simultaneously know the location and velocity of money in the economy. The more we know about one, the less we know about the other. But since we know how much money there is, having created/printed it, then we don’t know how much people are spending. But we do know because GDP figures are a thing… Wow, quantum economics is hard. My head hurts.
I’m sure you guys can come up with more and better quantum economics principles. 🙂