“Come back when you have a PhD” typically doesn’t mean “if you have a PhD, I’ll believe you”, it means “if you have a PhD, I’ll assign a high enough probability to you having something worthwhile to say that it’s worth even listening to you and doing the work to figure out where you might be wrong”.
Also, it can’t be answered by “I could show you some PhDs who agree with me”. As there are a lot of PhDs in the world, finding one out of that large number who agrees with you doesn’t update the probability of being right by much compared to combining PhD and agreement in a specific person named in advance (such as yourself).
Furthermore, human beings are neither unsafe genies nor stupid AIs, and nobody will take kindly to you trying to act like one by giving someone something that matches their literal request but any human being with common sense can figure out isn’t what they meant.
My request would probably be something like “come back when you have a PhD and get your observations published in a peer-reviewed journal”.
“Come back when you have a PhD” typically doesn’t mean “if you have a PhD, I’ll believe you”, it means “if you have a PhD, I’ll assign a high enough probability to you having something worthwhile to say that it’s worth even listening to you and doing the work to figure out where you might be wrong”.
Also, it can’t be answered by “I could show you some PhDs who agree with me”. As there are a lot of PhDs in the world, finding one out of that large number who agrees with you doesn’t update the probability of being right by much compared to combining PhD and agreement in a specific person named in advance (such as yourself).
Furthermore, human beings are neither unsafe genies nor stupid AIs, and nobody will take kindly to you trying to act like one by giving someone something that matches their literal request but any human being with common sense can figure out isn’t what they meant.
My request would probably be something like “come back when you have a PhD and get your observations published in a peer-reviewed journal”.