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Read this korrent: The lesson of the LHC is a cautionary one: you must not assume what is there before it has actually been found.
The lesson of the LHC is a cautionary one: you must not assume what is there before it has actually been found.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Dec 2023
LR
Lisa Randall — holds since 2023-12-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Superconducting Supercollider would have been a far more robust test of what lies beyond the standard model than the LHC, which became the only machine in town. — tap to centre the map on it
The Superconducting Supercollider would have been a far more robust test of what lies beyond the standard model than the LHC, which became the only machine in town.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Dec 2023
LR
Lisa Randall — holds since 2023-12-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A discovery you can see your way through to is impossible to abandon, even out of a real fear that it will be misused. — tap to centre the map on it
A discovery you can see your way through to is impossible to abandon, even out of a real fear that it will be misused.
Last stated a year ago
5 May 2025
JL
Janna Levin — holds since 2025-05-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: No single person can understand a result like the Higgs boson in depth, and that is what a paper with a thousand authors actually means. — tap to centre the map on it
No single person can understand a result like the Higgs boson in depth, and that is what a paper with a thousand authors actually means.
Last stated 7 months ago
7 Apr 2026
MN
Michael Nielsen — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: You learn where something is by going to find it rather than by being told, and that act is the whole difference between seeing something and noticing it. — tap to centre the map on it
You learn where something is by going to find it rather than by being told, and that act is the whole difference between seeing something and noticing it.
Last stated 3 months ago
13 Jul 2026
AC
Alan Castel — holds since 2026-07-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Large Hadron Collider is now a very unlikely place to find dark matter; the search has moved underground to xenon detectors. — tap to centre the map on it
The Large Hadron Collider is now a very unlikely place to find dark matter; the search has moved underground to xenon detectors.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Dec 2023
LR
Lisa Randall — holds since 2023-12-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Whether advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity is currently unknowable. — tap to centre the map on it
Whether advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity is currently unknowable.
Last stated a month ago
15 Sept 2026
MS
M.G. Siegler — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A system trained only on what is already known cannot produce genuine surprises, because a known thing stops being a surprise. — tap to centre the map on it
A system trained only on what is already known cannot produce genuine surprises, because a known thing stops being a surprise.
Last stated a month ago
18 Sept 2026
CD
Cory Doctorow — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The frontier of new physics is not high-energy particle physics or quantum gravity, but the problems of life and intelligence. — tap to centre the map on it
The frontier of new physics is not high-energy particle physics or quantum gravity, but the problems of life and intelligence.
Last stated 2 years ago
13 Jun 2024
SW
Sara Walker — holds since 2024-06-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve. — tap to centre the map on it
Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Apr 2024
SC
Sean Carroll — holds since 2024-04-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality. — tap to centre the map on it
Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality.
Last stated 3 years ago
21 Sept 2023
SH
Sabine Hossenfelder — holds since 2023-09-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The collapse postulate cannot simply be discarded without replacement instructions for measurements. — tap to centre the map on it
The collapse postulate cannot simply be discarded without replacement instructions for measurements.
Last stated 3 years ago
21 Sept 2023
SH
Sabine Hossenfelder — holds since 2023-09-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work. — tap to centre the map on it
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Last stated 2 months ago
14 Aug 2026
SK
Susan Kare — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them — tap to centre the map on it
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
IA
Isaac Asimov — holds since c. 1959 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness — tap to centre the map on it
A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness
Last stated 14 years ago
8 Jan 2013
DD
Daniel Dennett — holds since 2013-01-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic. — tap to centre the map on it
A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic.
Last stated 2 years ago
13 May 2024
DL
Derek Lowe — holds since 2024-05-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Sept 2024
AT
Alex Telford — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known.
Last stated 5 years ago
15 Jul 2021
DH
Demis Hassabis — holds since 2021-07-15 — tap for who they are
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